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Linux Seeing Fixes For AMD TRX40 Motherboard Audio Issues

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 15:00
Various patches are pending for improving the Linux support for onboard audio with motherboard sporting the AMD TRX40 chipset for 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper systems...

How to package Python applications for Linux

opensource.com - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 15:00

One way to make Python applications installable on Debian-based operating systems (such as Debian or Elementary OS) is by using the dh_virtualenv tool. It builds a .deb package that wraps a Python virtual environment around an application and deploys it upon installing.


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How to Setup HAProxy as Load Balancer for Nginx on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 14:17
To ensure maximum web application availability, scalability, and high performance, it is now common to implement technologies that introduce redundancy, such as server clustering and load balancing. For example, setting up a cluster of...

GitHub Completes Its Acquisition Of The NPM JavaScript/Node.js Package Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 12:00
Following the surprise announcement last month that Microsoft's GitHub would be acquiring NPM Inc, the company behind the popular JavaScript package manager, that acquisition is now complete...

KWinFT: KDE's KWin Forked To Focus On Better Wayland Support, Modern Technologies

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:30
Longtime KDE developer and former Blue Systems engineer, Roman Gilg, has announced his forking of KDE's KWin window manager / compositor and the subsequent first release of this new KWinFT project...

Steam Play's Proton 5.0-6 Released With DOOM Eternal Fix, Other Game Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:06
Following the Proton 5.0-6 release candidate from earlier this month that brought out-of-the-box support for DOOM Eternal under Linux, Valve today promoted Proton 5.0-6 to being officially available...

Shared Virtual Memory Lands In Mesa Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL Implementation

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 03:00
After being in code review the past half-year, support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL state tracker was just merged for Mesa 20.1...

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