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Data Suggests CoC + Outreachy Hasn't Helped Increase Female Participation In Debian

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 19:15
An informal case study suggests that since Debian enacted its Code of Conduct and began participating in the Outreachy internship program hasn't helped in increasing female participation within the open-source project but is actually trending lower compared to the early years of this original GNU/Linux distribution...

5 reasons why I love coding on Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 16:01

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different ways to use Linux. Here I'll explain why so many programmers choose Linux.


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How open source provides students with real-world experience

opensource.com - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 16:00

In the movie The Secret of My Success, Brantley Foster (played by Michael J. Fox) expresses the exact thought that goes through every new graduate's mind: "How can I get any experience until I get a job that gives me experience?"

The hardest thing to do when starting a new career is to get experience. Often this creates a paradox. How do you get work with no experience, and how do you get experience with no work?


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OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Released For This Linux Distro Built By The Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 15:20
One year after OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 released, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is now available. Continuing to make OpenMandriva Lx rather unique among Linux distributions is its use of the LLVM Clang compiler by default rather than GCC. Another unique "selling point" of OpenMandriva is its AMD Zen optimized version where the entire package set is rebuilt with Zen optimizations...

Proton 5.13-6 Released With Better PS5 Controller Handling, More Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 13:00
Proton 5.13-6 is out in time for the weekend Linux gamer in providing the latest functionality for this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Wine 6.2 Brings Mono 6.0 Engine, NTDLL Debugger APIs

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 04:51
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day weekend with some wine... Wine 6.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for running Windows games and applications on Linux/macOS...

Fedora's "Enterprise Linux Next" Taking Flight To Experiment With Next-Gen RHEL Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 02:44
Over the past year there has been much chatter about Enterprise Linux Next within the Fedora camp and now this special interest group (SIG) is finally getting underway...

AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 23:39
Now with the CPUFreq fix landing this week in Linux Git, the mainline Linux 5.11 kernel in its near final state is looking in very good shape for AMD Zen 2/3 hardware from Ryzen laptops and desktops through EPYC servers. The Linux 5.11 development kernel was regressed for the better part of the past two months but now that the frequency invariance regression is addressed, not only is the regression gone but generally is performing much better compared to prior kernel versions.

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