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Compose music as code using Sonic Pi

opensource.com - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 16:00

Maybe you're like me, and you learned a musical instrument when you were in school. For me, it was the piano, and later, the viola. However, I've always held that, as my childhood interests shifted towards computers and coding, I subsequently neglected my music practice. I do wonder what I would have done if I'd had something like Sonic Pi when I was younger. Sonic Pi is an open source program that lets you compose and perform music through code itself. It's the perfect marriage of those two worlds.


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F2FS vs. EXT4 File-System Performance With Intel's Clear Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 02:12
Intel's performance-oriented Clear Linux distribution recently added support for using F2FS as the root file-system so we were curious to run some benchmarks on it for how it stacks up against EXT4.

GNOME 3.36 RC2 Released Ahead Of The Official Desktop Update Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 00:58
The second and final release candidate for the GNOME 3.36 milestone is now available for testing this weekend ahead of the official GNOME 3.36.0 debut next week...

Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 21:25
Systemd 245 RC2 was released just earlier this week while now it has been succeeded by the stable release of systemd 245...

How I learned about burnout the hard way

opensource.com - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 21:25

In early 2017, I was mentally in a bad spot. It was the perfect storm of stress, the kind that no one asks for, but you deal with the hand you're dealt. Work was piling up to a point where I couldn't process all the things that were expected of me. I was training for spring half-marathons, which should have been stress relief, but I was putting too much pressure on myself to perform at a high level.


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Acer Is Launching In Germany What Could Be A Great AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 21:14
For those that have been looking out for an AMD Linux laptop powered by a Ryzen 4000 series processor, Acer is set to launch a new laptop at least in Germany that could be quite appealing to Linux users...

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