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How to package Python applications for Linux

opensource.com - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 15:00

One way to make Python applications installable on Debian-based operating systems (such as Debian or Elementary OS) is by using the dh_virtualenv tool. It builds a .deb package that wraps a Python virtual environment around an application and deploys it upon installing.


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How to Setup HAProxy as Load Balancer for Nginx on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 14:17
To ensure maximum web application availability, scalability, and high performance, it is now common to implement technologies that introduce redundancy, such as server clustering and load balancing. For example, setting up a cluster of...

GitHub Completes Its Acquisition Of The NPM JavaScript/Node.js Package Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 12:00
Following the surprise announcement last month that Microsoft's GitHub would be acquiring NPM Inc, the company behind the popular JavaScript package manager, that acquisition is now complete...

KWinFT: KDE's KWin Forked To Focus On Better Wayland Support, Modern Technologies

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:30
Longtime KDE developer and former Blue Systems engineer, Roman Gilg, has announced his forking of KDE's KWin window manager / compositor and the subsequent first release of this new KWinFT project...

Steam Play's Proton 5.0-6 Released With DOOM Eternal Fix, Other Game Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:06
Following the Proton 5.0-6 release candidate from earlier this month that brought out-of-the-box support for DOOM Eternal under Linux, Valve today promoted Proton 5.0-6 to being officially available...

Shared Virtual Memory Lands In Mesa Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL Implementation

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2020 - 03:00
After being in code review the past half-year, support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL state tracker was just merged for Mesa 20.1...

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