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BleachBit 3.9.0 Beta - Neowin

Google News - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 20:28

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Clear Linux On The Intel Core i9 9900KS, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 19:13
While we have been seeing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS offer better performance with newer hardware platforms, how does the performance compare to Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux? Here are some benchmarks on both AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and Intel Core i9 9900KS systems.

Linux 5.7 To Improve Spreading Of Utilization, Other Scheduler Work

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 18:37
More improvements were queued in recent days to sched/core of CPU scheduler improvements on the table for the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel cycle...

Linux 5.6-rc7 Released - Looking Like A Calm Release

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 17:53
Linus Torvalds commented that while Linux 5.6-rc7 may be going through strange times, the Linux 5.6 kernel development is looking normal...

How to Install Joomla on Ubuntu 18.04

Tecmint - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 17:07
When it comes to creating websites, one of the easiest ways to have your site up and running is using a CMS (content management system) that usually comes with bundled PHP code and all...

Don't love diff? Use Meld instead

opensource.com - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 15:03

Meld is one of my essential tools for working with code and data files. It's a graphical diff tool, so if you've ever used the diff command and struggled to make sense of the output, Meld is here to help.

Here is a brilliant description from the project's website:


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5 Python scripts for automating basic community management tasks

opensource.com - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 15:01

I've written before about what a community manager does, and if you ask ten community managers, you'll get 12 different answers. Mostly, though, you do what the community needs for you to do at any given moment. And a lot of it can be repetitive.

Back when I was a sysadmin, I had a rule: if I had to do something three times, I'd try to automate it. And, of course, these days, with awesome tools like Ansible, there's a whole science to that.


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How to create a personal file server with SSH on Linux

opensource.com - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 15:00

The Raspberry Pi makes for a useful and inexpensive home server for lots of things. I most often use the Raspberry Pi as a print server to share a laser printer with other devices in our home or as a personal file server to store copies of projects and other data.


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Git 2.26 Released With Transport Protocol V2 Default, Continued Work Towards SHA256 Hashes

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 13:17
Git 2.26 is out as the newest feature release for this distributed revision control system...

VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 12:07
VMware's VMWGFX open-source Linux graphics driver stack for interfacing with their virtualization software to offer guest VM 3D acceleration that is in turn handled by the host's drivers will soon be offering OpenGL 4.x support...

Ubuntu 18.04/19.10/20.04 vs. Debian 10/Testing Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 04:29
While Ubuntu is based on Debian, for those wondering how the performance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is looking not only compared to the previous 19.10 and 18.04.4 LTS releases but also Debian 10.3 stable and Debian Testing, here are some benchmark results on an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X system.

XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2020 - 02:19
For longtime Linux users who were fans of the XMMS audio player in the early 2000's, Audacious 4.0 has been released as the newest version of this XMMS-inspired audio player...

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