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Running Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Rome? Still Significant Performance Uplift Over Ubuntu  Phoronix

The current AMD EPYC 7742 2P benchmarking that is happening at Phoronix is an interesting Linux/BSD operating system performance comparison. That's in ...

The current AMD EPYC 7742 2P benchmarking that is happening at Phoronix is an interesting Linux/BSD operating system performance comparison. That's in the works while so far are some Ubuntu and Clear Linux numbers. Yes, Intel's open-source Clear Linux platform does run fine generally on AMD hardware -- including the new AMD "Rome" processors -- and generally does still run damn fast. Here is a look at Clear Linux on this 128 core / 256 thread server with Clear Linux against Ubuntu 19.04 as well as the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10.

Librem 5 Linux Phone’s Iterative Shipping Schedule Is Finally Here  Fossbytes

Just earlier this year in July, we gave you the latest update on the much-anticipated Libre 5 Linux smartphone that has been under development for quite some ...

As we approach the end of Q3, Purism has been quiet whether they will make their revised target of shipping the Librem 5 Linux smartphone this quarter after passing their original plan to ship at the start of 2019. Well, Purism has just published an update and they will begin shipping the phones in batches beginning at the end of the month but the quality isn't yet up to scratch...

Linux Benchmarks Of NVMe SSD Performance With Varying I/O Polling Queues  Phoronix

A Phoronix reader recently pointed out a little known kernel tunable option to adjust the number of I/O polling queues for NVMe solid-state drives that can ...

Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week  ZDNet

A day later, everyone's seemingly alive but Windows still isn't 'free.'

PinePhone begins shipping to developers this month ($150 Linux smartphone)  Liliputing

There are several companies working to bring smartphones running free and open source, GNU/Linux-based software to market this year. The PinePhone is ...

Linux Gaming On Steam Saw An Increase In The Month Of August 2019  Fossbytes

Linux Gaming on Steam increased to 0.8% of the total player base in the month of August 2019. The data from the previous month usually ranged from 0.75% to ...

Dell Has A New Dedicated Site For Ubuntu And RHEL-Certified Linux Desktops And Laptops  Forbes

For those of you following the Project Sputnik initiative — a project within Dell to offer and promote a premium range of Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise ...

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.