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How to Install LAMP Server on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 15:10
LAMP, an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, is a popular free and open-source stack used by website administrators and developers alike to test and host dynamic websites. The LAMP server comes with...

The State of Enterprise Open Source 2020: Enterprise open source use rises, proprietary software declines

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 13:00

Last year we set out to determine how IT leaders think about open source, why they choose it and what they intend to do with it in the future. The result was The 2019 State of Enterprise Open Source: A Red Hat Report, and the findings were clear and confirmed what we see happening in the industry.

Linux 5.6-rc2 Released - Led By Documentation + Tooling Updates

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 06:00
The second weekly release candidate of Linux 5.6 is now available and overall it's quite a calm test release...

Wine 5.2 With Better Handling For The Null Display Driver, UTF-8 Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 05:34
Wine 5.2 is out as the second bi-weekly development release of Wine following the recent Wine 5.0 stable debut. This post-5.0 unstable series is ultimately leading up to Wine 6.0's release early next year...

A Quick Look At The Blender 2.82 Performance On Intel + AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 02:47
With Blender 2.82 having released on Friday, this weekend we've begun our benchmarking of this new Blender release as the leading open-source 3D modeling solution currently available. Here are some preliminary v2.81 vs. v2.82 figures on different higher-end Intel and AMD processors...

Vulkan 1.2.133 Released With VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 00:55
It's been nearly one month since the release of Vulkan 1.2.132 and that came shortly after the big Vulkan 1.2 milestone, but out today is now Vulkan 1.2.133...

MyPaint 2.0 Released With New Features For Open-Source Drawing/Painting

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 20:37
If the likes of GIMP and Krita aren't satisfying your digital drawing/painting needs, MyPaint 2.0 has finally been released as a big update to this simplicity-minded, cross-platform and open-source program...

NVIDIA 440.58.01 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Game Crashes, New Extensions

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 20:00
Not scheduled to go live until Monday but up this weekend is the NVIDIA 440.58.01 Linux beta driver that offers a few Vulkan updates...

KDE Sees Improvements For Samba Shares, Fixing Mouse Input For GTK Apps On XWayland

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2020 - 19:44
While this week marked the release of KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS, KDE developers haven't let up on their bug fixing activities and other improvements to this open-source desktop environment...

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