Open-source News

Huawei Laptops coming with Linux Replacing Windows  TheGadgetWire

Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Security Patch for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 LTS  Softpedia News

Intel open-source engineers have sent out their initial patches wiring up USB 4.0 support for the Linux kernel...

How to install PowerShell Core on Windows, Linux, and macOS  TechRepublic

Linux Security Module officially adds a lockdown to Linux  The INQUIRER

Sadly not making it for the just-closed Linux 5.4 merge window but hopefully something we could see in Linux 5.5 is recent patches on "frequency invariance" in optimizing the Schedutil frequency scaling governor that will really benefit Intel CPUs and improve their performance by double digits...

Significant Performance & Perf-Per-Watt Gains Coming For Intel CPUs On Linux Schedutil  Phoronix

As a minor update following last month's Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 release, version 9.0.1 is now available and also for all PTS users are a number of new/updated test profiles via OpenBenchmarking.org...

It was another busy September on Phoronix with 298 original Linux/open-source news articles and 22 featured articles / hardware reviews written by your's truly. There was an interesting combination of both hardware and software happenings over the past month, so here is your convenient recap...

Over a year ago the AMD APU support in the Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) stack was quietly removed and has yet to be re-enabled in the upstream ROCm packages. But should you be wanting to use ROCm for their compute APIs or OpenCL on APUs, unofficial Ubuntu packages are now available to provide this capability...

Ahead of the oneAPI beta expected this quarter, Intel's OSPray ray-tracing engine that is set to be part of the oneAPI rendering tool-kit is embarking on its next major release...

View from the airport: Linux Open Networking Summit 2019  IT PRO

Global Linux Operating System Industry, 2019 Market Key Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux  Markets Gazette

MongoDB is an opensource, cross-platform NoSQL database server that developed by MongoDB Inc. It uses JSON to store its data and is popular for handling large amounts of data due to its scalability, high...

How to use Slax Linux? A Portable Linux distribution that doesn’t require installation  H2S Media

Messaging apps have changed how we communicate. Where would we be today without SMS? Can you imagine returning to a world where near-instant communication is not pervasive?

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Steam Linux Marketshare Ticks Up Higher For September  Phoronix

Windows 10 vs. Eight Linux Distributions In Various "Creator" Workloads On An Intel Core i9  Phoronix

The acquisition and application of influence is a vital aspect of any organization. But the manner in which people acquire influence can vary widely. In traditional, hierarchical organizations, for example, someone might acquire influence by virtue of their title or position in a hierarchy. In government organizations, someone might acquire influence by virtue of being elected. On social media, someone might acquire influence through endless self-promotion. Or someone might acquire influence through inheritance or wealth.

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In the first article in this series, I showed how to create a custom application to track donations using Corteza Low-Code, a graphical user interface- (GUI) and web-based development environment that serves as an alternative to Salesforce. So far, the Donations application merely exists, but this article explains how to make it do something by populating it with a data structure using modules and fields.

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