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Crostini Could Offer More Linux Distros in The Future  ItsChromeOS News

You might already be familiar with Crostini if you aren't new to the Chrome OS family but if you are, Crostini is Google's initiative to expand the usability of ...

In my article A beginner's guide to building DevOps pipelines with open source tools, I shared a story about building a DevOps pipeline from scratch. The core technology driving that initiative was Jenkins, an open source tool to build continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

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In companies of every size, software is increasingly providing business value because of a shift in how technology teams define success. More than ever, they are defined by how the applications they build bring value to their customers. Tickets and stability at the cost of saying no are no longer the key value of IT. It's now about increasing developer velocity by partnering with the business.

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Librem 5 privacy Linux phone starts shipping this month, batches revealed [UPDATE]  SlashGear

Few phones can claim to be running a "full" version of Linux. Even fewer could boast of having reached the consumer market at all. That extremely short list.

Why is Python so beloved by programmers? It's open source. It's compatible with a variety of operating systems. It's readable for beginners. And it's powerful enough to use for developing complex applications. But best of all is its large community, making it easy to find a solution to whatever problem you’re having. This community is the reason we have such a large, diverse range of software packages available in the Python Package Index (PyPI) to extend and improve Python and solve the inevitable glitches that crop up.

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MySQL master-slave replication is a procedure that allows database files to be replicated or copied across one or more nodes in a network. This setup provides redundancy and fault tolerance such that in the...

Steam Linux Usage Reportedly Ticks Up To 0.8% For August  Phoronix

Due to the US Labor Day holiday, Valve was slow in updating their monthly figures for their controversial Steam Survey of hardware/software data by polled ...

Intel announced at IFA 2019 in Berlin that their Core i9 9900KS processor will be releasing next month...

REPURPOSE YOUR OLD LAPTOP  The Daily Star

Do you have an old laptop lying around the house that no one has the patience to even turn on? Perhaps its usefulness can be likened to that of the exit button ...

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux CPU Frequency Scaling Governor Benchmarks  Phoronix

Given the recent talk about the Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor and its future along with CPU frequency scaling behavior in general on AMD Zen 2 ...

Given the recent talk about the Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor and its future along with CPU frequency scaling behavior in general on AMD Zen 2 processors, here are some benchmarks of the Ryzen 9 3900X when tested with the different Linux "CPUFreq" governor options.

While most games/engines and software in general are moving from OpenGL to Vulkan, NVIDIA is still investing in their OpenGL driver stack and even adding new multi-GPU/SLI functionality to their driver and as part of that introducing new extensions...

Linux And Kubernetes Support The Intelligent Enterprise  E3zine.com

The concept of the intelligent enterprise has arrived in SAP user companies. Now, they need intelligent infrastructures. Linux and Kubernetes can help.

While not officially released yet, support for the ASpeed AST2600 is coming to the Linux 5.4 kernel...

This Coin-sized Linux Computer Is Available for Just $69  ExtremeTech

Take your Linux tools with you on the go with this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle for just $69—over 10% off ...

Not included as part of our original EPYC 7742 / EPYC 7002 "Rome" Linux benchmarks was the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) developed by NASA. While an MPI testing favorite, there were build issues with the older version of NPB packaged by the Phoronix Test Suite. But with recently having updated that test profile against the latest NPB upstream, here are some results for the EPYC 7742 2P, EPYC 7601 2P, and dual Xeon Platinum 8280 benchmark results. Separately, there's also results now for NeatBench 5 with this video editing plug-in test case now part of the Phoronix Test Suite...

Red Hat's David Airlie has been refocusing efforts recently on improving the state of the LLVMpipe driver that implements OpenGL / OpenGL ES on top of CPUs using LLVM. In the past few weeks he's been wiring up more GL4 / GLES 3.1 extensions and this morning the latest achievement is supporting OpenGL compute shaders!..

Is Linux Really Immune to Viruses and Malware? Here's the Truth  MakeUseOf

You've heard that Linux isn't really troubled by viruses and malware. But why is this? And, more importantly, is it true?

The Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor has been around for a few years and has gotten better over time but in our own tests we still find it frequently not being as competitive to the "performance" governor and others. However, in the future Schedutil might become the default and perhaps only governor...

Eventually "Schedutil" Could Replace Linux's Existing CPU Scaling Governors  Phoronix

The Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor has been around for a few years and has gotten better over time but in our own tests we still find it frequently not ...