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Why to choose Rust as your next programming language

opensource.com - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 15:00

Choosing a programming language for a project is often a complicated decision, particularly when it involves switching from one language to another. For many programmers, it is not only a technical exercise but also a deeply emotional one. The lack of known or measurable criteria for picking a language often means the choice digresses into a series of emotional appeals.


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How to Install Apache ActiveMQ on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 14:56
ActiveMQ is a popular, open-source, multi-protocol implementation of message-oriented middleware (MOM) with enterprise features written in Java, used to send messages between two applications, or two components inside an application. It supports a wide...

RadeonSI NIR Mesa 19.3 Testing Didn't Turn Up Any Bugs, Similar Performance To TGSI

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 14:50
Besides RADV ACO compiler testing and AMDGPU bulk moves restored another common test request recently on the Radeon Linux graphics side has been looking at the NIR support...

Amlogic Video Decode Driver Nearly Ready With H.264 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 12:46
The in-kernel staging Amlogic Meson video decode driver could soon handle H.264 support as soon as Linux 5.5...

RadeonSI Adds Zeroing vRAM Workaround To Help Rocket League Players

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 07:20
For those annoyed by random textures appearing when launching the popular Rocket League game with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, a workaround has landed in Mesa 19.3-devel Git while also marked for back-porting to currently supported stable series...

Kubernetes communication, SRE struggles, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 00:30

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Linux 5.5 To Advertise RDPRU Support For AMD Zen 2 CPUs Via /proc/cpuinfo

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2019 - 00:23
RDPRU is one of the new instruction set extensions of AMD "Zen 2" CPUs that is for reading a processor register that is typically limited to privilege level zero. RDPRU allows for reading select registers at any privilege level. With Linux 5.5, the RDPRU presence will be advertised by the CPU features...

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