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GNOME's Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 19:03
It turns out for the GNOME 3.34 and 3.36 series, Mutter's window rendering culling code was broken and that led to extra rendering of windows not even visible... A fix is in the works and can lead to the performance doubling or more...

OmniOS Updates Bring Microcode Mitigation For CrossTalk/SRBDS

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 18:51
New OmniOS Community Edition releases for this open-source Solaris/Illumos-based operating system are now available that principally bring updated Intel CPU microcode for mitigating the CrossTalk / SRBDS vulnerability...

NVIDIA A100 PCIe Accelerator Now Shipping For Servers

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 18:32
After announcing the NVIDIA Ampere architecture at last month's virtual keynote, beginning today the NVIDIA A100 PCI Express accelerator is now shipping in GPU compute servers...

Linux tools for improving your time management

opensource.com - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 15:02

Productivity is a subjective term, but essentially, it's a measurement of how efficiently a particular task is completed. Everyone has different things that keep them productive—some people need help staying on task, some people need a particular kind of work environment, some people need alerts and reminders to avoid missed deadlines, and some need assistance with repetitive, manual chores.


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7 open source alternatives to VS Code

opensource.com - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 15:01

Visual Studio Code, also known as VS Code, is a code editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It's the kind of editor that walks the line between editing text and managing your entire codebase, like an integrated development environment (IDE). It's extensible through plugins and has proven to be a reliable text editor that's easily beaten out formidable non-open rival editors.


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Manage your Kubernetes cluster with Lens

opensource.com - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 15:00

As more workloads are migrated to containerized environments, it becomes challenging to manage those larger numbers of containers and the connections between them and other systems. As the scale and complexity of a containerized environment increase past a human's ability to manage, container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes become increasingly important.


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How to Install WordPress with Nginx in Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 14:23
Today, over 36% of the web runs on the WordPress platform, as it is one of the most widely used open-source content management systems for creating a website or blog using its powerful features,...

2 billion minutes served: The Red Hat Customer Portal celebrates 10th birthday

Red Hat News - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 12:00

In the 10 years since its launch, Red Hat's users have spent an estimated 2 billion plus minutes on the Red Hat Customer Portal. That's more than 3,800 years that customers have spent on the site getting support, documentation, updates, and more. 

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