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Unicode 13.0 Released With A Plunger, Fondue & Other New Emoji

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 19:06
Unicode 13 is now officially available with standardizing 143,859 different characters...

GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 18:49
GNOME 3.36 is slated to be released today so here is a look back at much of the prominent work being introduced in this six month update to the GNOME desktop...

Directing Kubernetes traffic with Traefik

opensource.com - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 15:03

In this article, we will deploy a couple of simple websites and learn how to ingress traffic from the outside world into our cluster using Traefik. After that, we will learn how to remove Kubernetes resources as well. Let’s get started!


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Setting yourself up for success while working remotely

opensource.com - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 15:01

Remote work is not easy. While there are perks to being remote, it is a mind-shift and takes some getting used to. Talk to anybody that works remotely, and they will likely tell you some of the biggest challenges of remote work are feeling disconnected and a loss of regime. Here are my tips gathered from 10 years as a remote worker on how to set yourself and your team up to work remotely successfully.


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What you need to know about variables in Emacs

opensource.com - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 15:00

GNU Emacs is written in C and Emacs Lisp (Elisp), a dialect of the Lisp programming language. Because it's a text editor that happens to be an Elisp sandbox, it is helpful to understand how basic programming concepts work in Elisp.


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How to install pip to manage PyPI packages easily

opensource.com - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 15:00

Python is a powerful and popular programming language with many packages that are useful for general programming, data science, and many other things. These packages are not included with the Python installation, so you have to download, install, and manage them separately. All of these packages (libraries and frameworks) are stored in a central repository called the Python Package Index, or PyPI for short. This is where pip (short for Preferred Installer Program), Python's package manager, comes into the picture.


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SDL 2.0.12 Released For This Important Linux/Cross-Platform Gaming Library

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 13:25
SDL 2.0.12 is now available as the latest stable update to the Simple DirectMedia Layer that is the library commonly used by cross-platform games as a hardware/software abstraction layer...

How to Install and Configure an NFS Server on Ubuntu 18.04

Tecmint - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 13:14
NFS (Network File Share) is a protocol that allows you to share directories and files with other Linux clients in a network. The directory to be shared is usually created on the NFS server...

Proton 5.0-4 Released With DXVK 1.5.5, Denuvo Fixes, Performance Work

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 12:00
Proton 5.0-4 is out as Valve's Wine-based layer for running Windows games on Linux via Steam Play...

Dav1d 0.6 AV1 Video Decoder Delivering Healthy Improvements For Intel + AMD Processors

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 09:17
Given this week's release of dav1d 0.6, here are some fresh benchmarks of this open-source AV1 video decoder on a few different Intel and AMD systems so far...

Amazon AWS Launches Linux-Based Bottlerocket For Hosting Containers

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 09:05
The newest open-source project out of Amazon Web Services is Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system designed for hosting containers and largely written in Rust code...

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