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LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 04/15/2021 - 20:04
For fans of LXQt or those still looking for a nice lightweight Qt5 desktop, LXQt 0.17 is out as the latest version of this open-source desktop environment...

OpenZFS 2.1-rc3 Delivers More Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/15/2021 - 18:39
OpenZFS 2.1 is nearing release as the next feature update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently supporting Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 04/15/2021 - 18:12
It should come as little surprise -- especially given the recent news of Google allowing Rust to be used for Android system-level code -- but engineers at the search giant are in support of Rust code being used within the mainline Linux kernel...

How To Install Java with Apt on Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Thu, 04/15/2021 - 17:42
The post How To Install Java with Apt on Ubuntu 20.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Java is one of the most popular programming languages and the JVM (Java’s virtual machine) is the run-time environment to run Java applications. These two platforms are required for much popular software that includes

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LLVM 12.0 Released With Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support, More C++20

Phoronix - Thu, 04/15/2021 - 16:00
After the release cycle dragged on an extra month due to blocker bugs, LLVM 12 was officially tagged on Wednesday night as the latest half-year update to this open-source compiler stack...

5 reasons sysadmins love systemd

opensource.com - Thu, 04/15/2021 - 15:02

As systems administrators know, there's a lot happening on modern computers. Applications run in the background, automated events wait to be triggered at a certain time, log files are written, status reports are delivered. Traditionally, these disparate processes have been managed and monitored with a collection of Unix tools to great effect and with great efficiency. However, modern computers are diverse, with local services running alongside containerized applications, easy access to clouds and the clusters they run on, real-time processes, and more data to process than ever.


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A beginner's guide to load balancing

opensource.com - Thu, 04/15/2021 - 15:01

When the personal computer was young, a household was likely to have one (or fewer) computers in it. Children played games on it during the day, and parents did accounting or programming or roamed through a BBS in the evening. Imagine a one-computer household today, though, and you can predict the conflict it would create. Everyone would want to use the computer at the same time, and there wouldn't be enough keyboard and mouse to go around.


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