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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Small Production Environments

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 21:36
Following the announcement at the end of last year that CentOS 8 will be ending and instead focusing on CentOS Stream as the future upstream to RHEL, there have been many concerned by the absence of CentOS 8 past this year. In trying to fill that void, Red Hat announced today they will be making Red Hat Enterprise Linux free for small production deployments...

Mesa's R600 Driver Nears Feature Complete NIR Support For Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 21:18
For those still making use of pre-GCN AMD graphics cards supported by the R600 Gallium3D driver (namely the Radeon HD 5000/6000 series), the open-source "R600g" Gallium3D driver now has nearly feature complete NIR support...

LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 20:51
LibreOffice 7.1 should be released at the start of February while now the second to last release candidate is available for testing of this leading cross-platform, open-source office suite...

Qt Open-Source Downloads Temporarily Offline Due To Severe Hardware Failure

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 20:34
Several readers have expressed concerned that Qt open-source downloads have disappeared but The Qt Company has now commented it's only a temporary issue due to a "severe hardware failure" in the cloud...

Dbus-Broker 26 Released For High Performance D-Bus

Phoronix - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 19:16
With the BUS1 in-kernel IPC not panning out and not seeing any major code work in nearly two years, the user-space based, D-Bus compatible DBus-Broker remains the performant and current option for those looking at something faster and more reliable than D-Bus itself...

Learn JavaScript by writing a guessing game

opensource.com - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 16:02

It's pretty safe to say that most of the modern web would not exist without JavaScript. It's one of the three standard web technologies (along with HTML and CSS) and allows anyone to create much of the interactive, dynamic content we have come to expect in our experiences with the World Wide Web.


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Why keeping a journal improves productivity

opensource.com - Wed, 01/20/2021 - 16:01

In previous years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 10 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

When I was in primary school in the days before the commercial internet, teachers would often give my class an assignment to keep a journal. Sometimes it was targeted at something particular, like a specifically formatted list of bugs and descriptions or a weekly news article summary for a civics class.


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