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The first development release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.4-Vestby is now available for evaluation...

Windows 7 is dead — switch to the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 4.8 NOW!  BetaNews

Following the long-awaited GCC transition from SVN to Git that took place this weekend, the GNU Compiler Collection is kicking off this week by transitioning to "stage four" development on the GCC 10 compiler...

The NGG (Next-Gen Geometry) support with Navi continues to be refined by the open-source AMD Linux graphics drivers with the RADV Vulkan driver seeing a fresh batch of fixes/clean-ups, inspired in part by the NGG code from the RadeonSI and AMDVLK drivers...

RADV's Next-Gen Geometry Code Continues To Be Revised For Navi GPUs  Phoronix

One of the set of patches for Intel's Linux kernel graphics driver that have been floating around for more than one year is about exposing per-client (process) statistics in how each application is making use of the GPU's render/blitter/video hardware and various insightful statistics related to that. The patches aren't queued for mainline yet but at least a new revision of the work was published...

Intel Revs Linux Patches For Per-Client Engine Busyness - Allowing For Great GPU Insight  Phoronix

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing  The Register

In this article, you will learn how you can locally set up a DNF or YUM repository on your CentOS 8 system using an ISO or an installation DVD. CentOS 8 ships with 2...

10ZiG to Demo BCR via Experimental CER Feature in Citrix Workspace App on Linux-Based Thin Client at Citrix Summit  socPub

WSL 2: where is it, and where is it going?  TechRepublic

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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For more than a year, setV has been hidden away within my bash_scripts project, but it's time for it to become public. setV is a Bash function I use as an alternative to virtualenvwrapper. It provides basic features that enable you to do things such as:

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The rpf script allows you to create, save, and run different rsync configurations via named profiles.

For example, create a new profile named backup by typing rpf -c backup. Assume that the username is user.

rpf creates the following directories:

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Today, Red Hat filed an amicus brief (a "friend of the court" brief) asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision in Oracle v. Google. The lower court incorrectly extended copyright protection to software interfaces.

Linus Torvalds has just issued Linux 5.5-rc6 as the latest test release ahead of the stable Linux 5.5 kernel due out in a few weeks...

Linux 5.5-rc6 Released With Some Notable Radeon Graphics Fixes Plus Other Random Work  Phoronix

Linux 5.5-rc6 Released With Some Notable Radeon Graphics Fixes Plus Other Random Work  Phoronix

At the end of 2019 I ran some GCC 5 through GCC 10 compiler benchmarks while here are the similar tests conducted on the LLVM side for seeing how the Clang C/C++ compiler performance has evolved over the past few years...

Wine 5.0 is still going through weekly release candidates but the stable release of Wine 5 is expected to land in the back-half of January. With that imminent release, here is a look at the big changes to find with this annual Wine update...