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Intel P-State Driver Preparing To Migrate From "Powersave" To Passive Schedutil Default

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 19:25
It looks like in the next one or two kernel releases we could see Intel transitioning their CPU frequency scaling governor default from the long-standing powersave to the modern schedutil governor. It's now believed schedutil should be at least as good as powersave...

Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel?

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 18:57
A user experimenting with Clear Linux had an opinion to share on their mailing list and referred to it as a "toy" distribution and some of our readers have expressed similar opinions on it. Here is the response by one of the Intel developers central to Clear Linux's development...

Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" Reaches Beta For Debian 10 Without Systemd

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 18:36
Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" has finally reached beta as a spin of Debian 10 "Buster" created without a dependence on systemd...

Top 10 open source tools for working from home

opensource.com - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 15:03

If you work from home, you know how important it is to have a great set of tools that stay out of your way and let you focus on what matters. The harder you work during work hours, the more easily you can relax once the workday is through.

I've been working from home for years, and here are my top picks for the best tools open source has to offer the remote worker.

Jitsi video conferencing


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Share data between C and Python with this messaging library

opensource.com - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 15:02

I've had moments as a software engineer when I'm asked to do a task that sends shivers down my spine. One such moment was when I had to write an interface between some new hardware infrastructure that requires C and a cloud infrastructure, which is primarily Python.


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Make advanced Git tasks simple with Lazygit

opensource.com - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 15:01

If there's one word people use to describe Git, it's "powerful." Nobody can deny that Git is indeed a powerful beast, but after months of struggling to do embarrassingly basic things in it, I realized that mere mortals like me were never going to wield that power through a command-line interface.


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IO_uring Is Maturing Well On Linux For Faster & More Flexible I/O - Benchmarks On Linux 5.6

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 15:00
Since its introduction in Linux 5.1, IO_uring has been coming together quite nicely and getting better with each new kernel release. IO_uring is the effort for delivering faster and more efficient I/O by avoiding excess copies and other efficiency improvements over the existing Linux AIO code. Here are some comparison benchmarks off Linux 5.6 Git...

How I connect with non-English speakers about open source

opensource.com - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 15:00

One of the wonderful things about open source is the large community of writers contributing to our shared knowledge base. Not surprisingly, much of this is written in English; but there is also a well-served demand for open source-related information in other languages.


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How to Install Joomla on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 14:44
Joomla is a popular free and open-source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. Although it’s not as popular as its counterpart WordPress, it’s still used for creating blogs/websites with limited or no web...

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