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Manage complex Git workspaces with Great Teeming Workspaces

opensource.com - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 16:01

Great Teeming Workspaces (GTWS) is a complex workspace management package for Git that makes it easy to have development environments for different projects and different versions of a project.


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Introducing our new Lua cheat sheet

opensource.com - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 16:00

Lua is a minimalistic, lightweight language implemented as a C library. It's fast and simple to learn, efficient to run, embeddable, and tiny (its source code download is under 500 KB, and it's just over 1MB compiled). You can use Lua to create an API for your application or as a scripting language, for quick prototyping, or as the foundation of your software project.


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Cavium OCTEON Driver Support For Linux Is Coming Back From The Dead

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 15:26
It looks like the Cavium/Marvell OCTEON MIPS-based processor support is being restored for Linux systems after some of its drivers were briefly removed...

How to Set Up IPsec-based VPN with Strongswan on Debian and Ubuntu

Tecmint - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 15:01
strongSwan is an open-source, cross-platform, full-featured and widely-used IPsec-based VPN (Virtual Private Network) implementation that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, Windows, Android, and iOS. It is primarily a keying daemon that supports the...

Hwangsaeul Is A Collabora-Backed Open-Source Video Surveillance SRT System

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 13:00
Collabora under contract with SK Telecom has been working on Hwangsaeul as a new open-source platform for relaying security system surveillance video feeds from multiple sources, recording them on the centralized server, and supports connected clients for watching the feeds...

Firefox 73 + Firefox 74 Beta Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 07:37
Given this week's release of Firefox 73 stable that also puts Firefox 74 into beta state, here are fresh Firefox browser benchmarks of Firefox 72/73/74 on Ubuntu Linux with and without WebRender as well as how it compares to the current state of Google Chrome.

Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Released With The Newest Hardware Enablement Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 04:04
After a one week delay, Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS is available today as the newest long-term support point release...

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