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Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 19:09
Microsoft is working on its own Wayland compositor derived from the Weston code-base...

Linux 5.8 To See Faster FUSE Write Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 18:49
FUSE for file-systems in user-space while being criticized by developers in the past and known for being slower than kernel native file-systems is seeing another write optimization come Linux 5.8...

Linux 5.8 To Better Deal With Critical Thermal Faults For Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 16:16
AMD on Tuesday sent in another batch of feature updates for Linux 5.8 with the cut-off for new material upon us with this next kernel cycle expected to begin in early June...

Teach kids Python by building an interactive game

opensource.com - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 15:02

Python has earned a reputation as a wonderful beginner programming language. But where does one begin?

One of my favorite ways to get people interested in programming is by writing games.

PursuedPyBear (ppb) is a game programming library optimized for teaching, and I recently used it to teach my children more about my favorite programming language.


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How to configure your router using VTY shell

opensource.com - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 15:01

Recently, I wrote an article explaining how we can implement Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) using the Quagga routing suite. There are multiple software suites that can be used instead of Quagga to implement different routing protocols. One such option is free range routing (FRR).


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Questions we should ask about COVID-19 contact-tracing apps

opensource.com - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 15:00

One of the cheering things about the pandemic crisis in which we find ourselves is the vast upswell of volunteering that we are seeing across the world. We are seeing this equally across the IT sector, and one of the areas where work is being done is in apps to help track COVID-19. Specifically, there is an interest in COVID-19 contact-tracing or -tracking apps for our mobile0 phones.


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Intel's Habana Labs Mainling Gaudi Accelerator Support In Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 14:05
AI startup Habana Labs, which was recently acquired by Intel, will see its Gaudi accelerator supported by the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel...

How to Install LEMP Stack with PhpMyAdmin in Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Wed, 05/20/2020 - 13:35
For those of you who don’t know what LEMP is – this is a combination of software packages – Linux, Nginx (pronounced EngineX), MariaDB and PHP. You can use LEMP for both testing purposes...

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