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NVIDIA 440.59 Linux Driver Brings DP MST Audio, PRIME Sync For Linux 5.4+

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 23:08
NVIDIA has kicked off February by releasing the 440.59 Linux driver as their newest stable driver...

AMD's Zen 2 Scheduler Model Gets Partially Fixed Up In LLVM

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 22:00
Landing in the LLVM compiler infrastructure code-base in January was finally an AMD Zen 2 scheduler model optimized for the latest-generation AMD processors when compiling code with Clang using the -march=znver2 targeting. However, now some important fixes to this scheduler model have landed...

GRUB 2.06 Planning For Release This Year - Possibly With Intel TXT + AMD SKINIT Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 20:42
Oracle's Daniel Kiper provided an update on the GRUB boot-loader efforts and their hopes on sticking to a yearly release cadence...

Hikari Is A FreeBSD-Focused X11 Window Manager + Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 20:27
Hikari is a stacking window manager with tiling support that has also work-in-progress code for serving as a Wayland compositor. However, unlike most X11 window managers and Wayland compositors being focused on Linux systems, Hikari is BSD-focused...

Give an old MacBook new life with Linux

opensource.com - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 16:02

When I installed Apple's MacOS Mojave, it slowed my formerly reliable MacBook Air to a crawl. My computer, released in 2015, has 4GB RAM, an i5 processor, and a Broadcom 4360 wireless card, but Mojave proved too much for my daily driver—it made working with GnuCash impossible, and it whetted my appetite to return to Linux. I am glad I did, but I felt bad that I had this perfectly good MacBook lying around unused.


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Tips for CI/CD pipelines and Windows users, and more Ansible news

opensource.com - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 16:02

Bridging the old world and the new, this month we came across articles on VMware, Docker, and some helpful tips and tricks. And Ansible's own community data scientist, Greg Sutcliffe, has been crunching some more numbers to tell us about the global meetup scene.

If you spot an interesting Ansible story on your travels, please send us the link via Mark on Twitter, and the Ansible Community team will curate the best submissions.


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Troubleshoot Kubernetes with the power of tmux and kubectl

opensource.com - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 16:01

Kubernetes is a thriving open source container orchestration platform that offers scalability, high availability, robustness, and resiliency for applications. One of its many features is support for running custom scripts or binaries through its primary client binary, kubectl. Kubectl is very powerful and allows users to do anything with it that they could do directly on a Kubernetes cluster.


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How to Use Nginx as an HTTP Load Balancer in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 15:49
When it comes to setting up multiple application servers for redundancy, load balancing is a commonly used mechanism for efficiently distributing incoming service requests or network traffic across a group of back-end servers. Load...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Better Handle Power Savings During Compute Workloads

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 15:14
Over the past week have been two patch series in working to enable BACO (Bus Active, Chip Off) support and in turn power management capabilities when using AMDKFD (Kernel Fusion Driver) for compute workloads...

Haiku R1 Beta 2 Is Hopefully Not Too Far Away

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 13:09
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system that has been in development since 2001 saw its long-awaited beta release in late 2018 while it looks like a second beta release could be on approach for this open-source operating system...

NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon With 64-bit ARM, Updated ZFS, Hardware-Accelerated Virtualization

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 08:48
The second release candidate of NetBSD 9.0 is now available for testing of what should be the last test candidate before the stable NetBSD 9 unveiling in the very near future...

KDevelop 5.5 Released With Better C++, PHP, Python Language Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/03/2020 - 07:44
Version 5.5 of KDevelop, the KDE-focused integrated development environment, is now available with various language integration improvements...

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