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PHP 7.3 Is In Ubuntu 19.10, PHP 7.4 Hopefully Will Make It Into Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 18:03
One of the benefits of upgrading to Ubuntu Server 19.10 this month is for a newer version of PHP7 providing new features and better performance. While that took close to one year to land PHP 7.3 in Ubuntu 19.10, it looks like next spring's Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be pulling in PHP 7.4 that is shipping later this year...

Linux ‘tree Command’ Usage Examples for Beginners

Tecmint - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 17:55
The tree is a tiny, cross-platform command-line program used to recursively list or display the content of a directory in a tree-like format. It outputs the directory paths and files in each sub-directory and...

Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Focusing On Bettering The Arm Midgard Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 17:51
While there hasn't been too much to write on it in recent weeks, the Panfrost Gallium3D driver within Mesa for Arm Midgard/Bifrost graphics continues chugging along. The latest work on it is switching over to a new scheduler for Midgard...

3 command line games for learning Bash the fun way

opensource.com - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 15:02

Learning is hard work, and nobody likes work. That means no matter how easy it is to learn Bash, it still might feel like work to you. Unless, of course, you learn through gaming.


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How to create the user interface for your Corteza Low Code application

opensource.com - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 15:01

In the first two articles in this series, I explained how to use Corteza Low Code to create an application to track donations and set up its data structure with modules and fields. In the third article, I will explain how to create the graphical part of the Donations application.


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7 Bash history shortcuts you will actually use

opensource.com - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 15:00

Most guides to Bash history shortcuts exhaustively list every single one available. The problem with that is I would use a shortcut once, then glaze over as I tried out all the possibilities. Then I'd move onto my working day and completely forget them, retaining only the well-known !! trick I learned when I first started using Bash.

So most of them were never committed to memory.


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Steam Linux Marketshare Ticks Up Higher For September

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 09:05
The Steam Linux marketshare measurement for September ticked up slightly and to the highest point we have seen in a a number of months...

GeForce RTX SUPER Linux Compute Performance - 18 GPU NVIDIA OpenCL Comparison

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 00:21
Last week we began our belated NVIDIA GeForce RTX SUPER benchmarking by looking at the RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER Linux gaming performance in a 26-way graphics card comparison. For those more interested in the RTX SUPER graphics cards for their OpenCL compute performance potential, these benchmarks today are for you.

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