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It Needs A Restart: GLIBC Drops Support For Restartable Sequences

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 18:51
Well this is a huge Friday morning bummer: the GNU C Library (glibc) is dropping support for the very interesting Restartable Sequences (RSEQ) as some design changes need to be made, thus restarting work on restartable sequences...

Thunderbird 78 Rolls Out With UI Updates, New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 18:25
There is finally a new release of the Thunderbird mail/RSS client available as the annual update to this longtime Mozilla mail client. Thunderbird 78 is the new version out and serves as an Extended-Support Release with many improvements in tow...

FreeBSD Back To Seeing Progress On 802.11ac WiFi Support, Ath10k Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:17
Longtime FreeBSD/Linux network stack developer and former Qualcomm Atheros engineer Adrian Chadd is back to working on FreeBSD wireless networking improvements...

Debug Linux using ProcDump

opensource.com - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:02

Microsoft's growing appreciation for Linux and open source is no secret. The company has steadily increased its contributions to open source in the last several years, including porting some of its software and tools to Linux.


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Open source accounting software developed by accountants

opensource.com - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:01

Over the last six months, I have been working on GoDBLedger, an open source accounting system that I feel addresses some of the issues that plague current accounting software solutions. Even in my first year as a graduate accountant, the software frustrated me because I have seen what good software can be like and how much it can improve your productivity.


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A brief history of the Content Management System

opensource.com - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:00

Content management system (CMS) is a prolific software category that covers all types of applications for the creation and modification of digital content. So it should come as no huge surprise that the history of the CMS traces back to the first website in history, by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, which was modeled on an internet-based hypertext system HTML, which represented just text and links.


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“Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access / on this server” Error

Tecmint - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 13:38
Apache web server is one of the most popular and widely used opensource web servers thanks to its stability and reliability. The web server commands a huge market, especially in the web hosting platforms.

Cage Wayland Compositor For Kiosk Use-Cases Updated With Direct Scan-Out, New Protocols

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 12:09
Joining Sway 1.5 for an exciting week in the Wayland space is an update to Cage, the Wayland compositor designed for kiosk-like experiences...

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