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Here’s Why Ubuntu Linux 19.10 Feels Insanely Fast And Responsive  Forbes

Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt who has become well known for focusing on his GNOME performance optimizations over the past two years is not done yet. While recapping their performance achievements around GNOME Shell for Ubuntu 19.10, he commented on performance work to happen for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10 later on...

Con Kolivas is normally quite quick following new kernel releases in turning around a re-spin with his patch-set atop that also has his MuQSS scheduler optimized for desktop responsiveness. His Linux 5.3 kernel support is late to the party due to being tied up with other work, but Kolivas introduced his latest code today...

Linux 5.3-ck1 Kernel Released With MuQSS 0.195 Scheduler Bringing Ryzen Fixes  Phoronix

One of the interesting features for PHP 7.4 that is due for release at the end of next month is the long-awaited FFI (Foreign Function Interface) support. PHP 7.4's FFI lets developers call functions / variables / data structures defined in the C programming language from native PHP code...

In 2004, the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL) was launched as a source of free illustrations for anyone to use, for any purpose, without requiring attribution or anything in return. This site was the open source world’s answer to the big stacks of clip art CDs on the shelf of every home office in the 1990s, and to the art dumps provided by the closed-source office and artistic software titles.

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A system call is a programmatic way a program requests a service from the kernel, and strace is a powerful tool that allows you to trace the thin layer between user processes and the Linux kernel.

To understand how an operating system works, you first need to understand how system calls work. One of the main functions of an operating system is to provide abstractions to user programs.

An operating system can roughly be divided into two modes:

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I have been a huge Mac fan and power user since I started in IT in 2004. But a few months ago—for several reasons—I made the commitment to shift to Linux as my daily driver. This isn't my first attempt at fully adopting Linux, but I'm finding it easier than ever. Here is what inspired me to switch.

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In the previous two articles of this Ansible Series, we’ve explained Core Components of Ansible and Setting Up Ansible Control Node. In this part 3, we will demonstrate how you can configure Ansible managed...

The newest Vulkan extension now supported by Intel's open-source "ANV" Linux driver is VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model...

Mesa 19.2.2 was released on Thursday as the second point release to this quarter's Mesa 19.2 stable series...

A Linux For Speed Hounds: A Look At Clear Linux Performance  Techgage

While Fedora 31 didn't make its original release target of this week due to being delayed by installer issues and DNF bugs, those blocker bugs have now been addressed and this next installment of Red Hat's Fedora Linux is coming out next week!..

New evidence of Intel's multi-GPU support for upcoming Xe discrete cards uncovered in Linux drivers  Notebookcheck.net

Zink is the year-old effort led by Collabora's Erik Faye-Lund on developing a Mesa driver that maps OpenGL over Vulkan. It's now nearly within Mesa pending the merge request to actually add it...

Global Linux Operating System Market 2019 – IBM , Ubuntu Linux , Linux Mint , Elementary OS , openSUSE , Fedora Linux  The Industry Reporter

Heads up, private penguins: Tails 4.0 is out. Security-conscious Linux gets updated apps, speed boost  The Register

How to install and initialize the Snapd repository on your CentOS 8/7 Linux  H2S Media

Intel's Stephen Robinson is presenting today at the Linley Fall Processor Conference on the company's Tremont microarchitecture. Here is a look at Tremont from our pre-briefing earlier this week.

Chrome OS update will allow higher-end Chromebooks to use more memory for Linux  About Chromebooks