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Cascade Lake vs. Rome With MrBayes, dav1d 0.5, OSPray, SVT-VP9, OIDn + Other Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 19:30
While swapping around CPUs for the AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon Cascade Lake testing of Facebook's RocksDB enterprise workload testing, I also took the opportunity for running some other recently updated test profiles on these EPYC/Xeon parts under test...

Xfce4-Panel Adds Dark Mode Preference

Phoronix - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 18:56
As a change for next year's Xfce 4.16, the xfce4-panel now exposes a preferences option for those preferring "dark modes" of GTK themes...

AMDGPU DC Looks To Have PSR Squared Away - Power-Savings For Newer AMD Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 16:00
It looks like as soon as Linux 5.5 is where the AMDGPU kernel driver could be ready with Panel Self Refresh (PSR) support for enabling this power-savings feature on newer AMD laptops...

Perceiving Python programming paradigms

opensource.com - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 15:02

Early each year, TIOBE announces its Programming Language of The Year. When its latest annual TIOBE index report came out, I was not at all surprised to see Python again winning the title, which was based on capturing the most search engine ranking points (especially on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, and Baidu) in 2018.


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How to use Protobuf for data interchange

opensource.com - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 15:01

Protocol buffers (Protobufs), like XML and JSON, allow applications, which may be written in different languages and running on different platforms, to exchange data. For example, a sending application written in Go could encode a Go-specific sales order in Protobuf, which a receiver written in Java then could decode to get a Java-specific representation of the received order. Here is a sketch of the architecture over a network connection:


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How I built and maintain Cantata, an open source music player

opensource.com - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 15:00

This is the third in a series of conversations with developers who build and maintain open source music players. Craig Drummond is the developer and maintainer of Cantata, an open source music player that acts as a frontend (client) to the Music Player Daemon (MPD) music server. I have two small headless computers at home configured as music servers—one connected to our stereo in our living room, one in my upstairs office.


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How to Install FreeOffice 2018 in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 14:06
FreeOffice is a completely free and full-featured office suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet and presentation software for both personal and commercial use and an excellent alternative to Microsoft Office suite which comes...

Pensando Systems Exits Stealth Mode With Plans To Take On Amazon AWS

Phoronix - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 13:00
While normally we don't cover hardware start-ups on Phoronix, Pensando Systems has just exited stealth and given their focus will be heavily involved with Linux and in fact already have their first kernel driver mainlined...

Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3

Phoronix - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 12:00
AMD developer Marek Olšák has landed a "mega cleanup" to the Gallium3D Mesa state tracker code around its NIR intermediate representation handling...

Fedora 31 Release Held Up By Installer + DNF Bugs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/18/2019 - 05:02
Fedora developers had been trying to ship Fedora 31 for their original release target of next Tuesday, 22 October, but that isn't going to happen due to remaining blocker bugs...

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