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Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" Released With Many Improvements For This Mobile Linux OS

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 18:45
Jolla announced today Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" as the newest version of their Linux-based smartphone platform...

Trinity Desktop Turns 10 Years Old As A Fork Of KDE 3.5 - Celebrates With New Release

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 18:26
The Trinity Desktop Environment is marking its tenth anniversary with a new release of this desktop forked from the KDE 3.5 code-base...

How to Configure Network Connection Using ‘nmcli’ Tool

Tecmint - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 15:44
Abbreviated as nmcli, the network manager command-line interface is a nifty and easy to use tool that saves you lots of time when you need to configure an IP address. To display all the...

Open source live streaming with Open Broadcaster Software

opensource.com - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 15:03

If you have a talent you want to share with the world, whether it's making your favorite sourdough bread or speedrunning through a level of your favorite video game, live streaming is the modern show-and-tell. It's a powerful way to tell the world about your hobby through a medium once reserved for exclusive and expensive TV studios. Not only is the medium available to anyone with a relatively good internet connection, but the most popular software to make it happen is open source.


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The life-changing magic of git rebase -i

opensource.com - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 15:01

Software development is messy. So many wrong turns, typos to fix, quick hacks and kludges to correct later, off-by-one errors you find late in the process. With version control, you have a pristine record of every wrong turn and correction made during the process of creating the "perfect" final product—a patch ready to submit upstream. Like the outtakes from movies, they are a little embarrassing and sometimes amusing.


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Drop PNG and JPG for your online images: Use WebP

opensource.com - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 15:00

WebP is an image format developed by Google in 2010 that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, web developers can create smaller, richer images that improve site speed. A faster loading website is critical to the user experience and for the website's marketing effectiveness.

For optimal loading across all devices and users, images on your site should not be larger than 500 KB in file size.


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BLAKE3 Cryptographic Hashing Function Sees Experimental Vulkan Implementation

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 12:09
BLAKE3, the cryptographic hash function that advertises itself as being "much faster" than the likes of SHA1 and MD5 and its predecessor BLAKE2 while being more secure and highly parallelizable has seen an experimental implementation for GPU-based acceleration using the Vulkan API...

Recapping day one of Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience

Red Hat News - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 12:00

There was a lot to take in from day one of the Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience. Just in case you missed it, here are some of the highlights and a sneak peek at day two.

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