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Enterprise JavaBeans, infrastructure predictions, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 23:50

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Apple macOS 10.15 vs. Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 22:21
In addition to this month bringing the release of the Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine", Apple also shipped macOS 10.15 "Catalina" as the sixteenth major release of their macOS operating system. So with that it makes for an interesting time seeing how macOS 10.15 competes against both Ubuntu 19.10 and Windows 10 on an Apple MacBook Pro. Here are those results from dozens of benchmarks.

Intel Core i9 9900KS Linux Benchmarks Are Coming

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 21:00
The Intel Core i9 9900KS is still on track for shipping this month as the revived Coffeelake CPU that is capable of hitting an all-core turbo frequency of 5.0GHz. Linux benchmarks of the Core i9 9900KS are coming...

Zink Merged Into Mesa 19.3 For Offering OpenGL Over Vulkan

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 19:42
The Zink Gallium3D code for running OpenGL / OpenGL ES over Vulkan has now been merged into the Mesa 19.3 development code...

Ubuntu's Mir Working On Replaceable Renderer, Hybrid Graphics Driver Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 19:20
Canonical's Chris Halse Rogers has shared a road-map for Mir (or terrain map as he prefers calling it) about their future plans for this open-source display server that remains focused now on providing Wayland support...

Firefox 71 Doesn't Do Much For Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 19:07
Following last week's release of Firefox 70 and Chrome 78 I posted some fresh Linux web browser benchmarks where the Mozilla browser continued to get beat severely by Google on Linux. But is the situation any better with Firefox 71 in beta? Not really...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" Formally Opens For Development

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 19:00
The Ubuntu 20.04 cycle is now officially underway. Following the recent release of Ubuntu 19.10, the "Focal" archive has been created and back to syncing against the latest Debian unstable packages...

dav1d 0.5.1 Boosts AV1 Video Decode For Older CPUs by 40~50%

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 18:49
While marketed as a point release, the dav1d 0.5.1 "Asiatic Cheetah" release is quite significant for those needing to perform AV1 video decoding on older processors...

6 signs you might be a Linux user

opensource.com - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 15:02

Linux users are a diverse bunch, but many of us share a few habits. You might not have any of the telltale signs listed in this article, and if you're a new Linux user, you may not recognize many of them... yet.

Here are six signs you might be a Linux user.


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How to remove duplicate lines from files with awk

opensource.com - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 15:01

Suppose you have a text file and you need to remove all of its duplicate lines.

TL;DR

To remove the duplicate lines while preserving their order in the file, use:


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Building trust in the Linux community

opensource.com - Mon, 10/28/2019 - 15:01

I recently listened to an interesting interview on Linux for everyone. Host Jason Evangelho interviewed Christopher Scott, senior premier field engineer (open source) at Microsoft. Christopher is a Linux advocate who has a unique perspective as an avid Linux user who works for Microsoft.


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