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Xfce's xfce4-panel Says Farewell To GTK2 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 00:00
Following last month's release of Xfce 4.14 that transitioned from GTK2 to GTK3 as its tool-kit, old remnants of GTK2 support are now being nuked...

16 experts on Kubernetes, choosing the right container platform, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 00:00

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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LuxCoreRender 2.2 Released With Intel Open Image Denoise Yields Faster Render Times

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 22:44
LuxCoreRender, the open-source physically based renderer for execution on CPUs as well as OpenCL accelerators / GPUs, is out with version 2.2 and now integrates Intel's open-source Open Image Denoise...

The Xeon vs. EPYC Performance With Intel's oneAPI Embree & OSPray Render Projects

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 19:37
With Intel seemingly ramping up work on their open-source OSPray portable ray-tracing engine now that they have pulled it under their oneAPI umbrella as part of a forthcoming rendering tool-kit, I figured it would be the latest interesting candidate for benchmarking of AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 performance. In addition, the Embree ray-tracing kernels are also being benchmarked as part of this performance comparison.

Intel Releasing FSP For Xeon Scalable Skylake-SP For Coreboot Support

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 18:16
Intel in cooperation with Facebook have announced they are releasing a Firmware Support Package (FSP) to allow Xeon Scalable "Skylake-SP" to boot with Coreboot...

Linux 5.4 Will Try When Needed To Actively Generate RNG Entropy To Avoid Boot Problems

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 17:57
Linux 5.4-rc1 didn't end up being released on Sunday night as is tradition but instead there were some last-minute critical patches that landed around the kernel's handling of the random number generator / entropy at boot-time...

GCC Developers Look At Transitioning Their Codebase To C++11

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 16:32
Seven years after the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers began transitioning their codebase from C to C++, they are now discussing the prospects of adopting C++11 as their allowed C++ standard revision for developing this open-source compiler...

How to Install Ansible Automation Tool on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 15:18
Ansible is a free and opensource automation tool that allows system administrators to configure and control hundreds of nodes from a central server without the need of installing any agents on the nodes. It...

How I ditched my old OS and jumped into Linux

opensource.com - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 15:02

About a year ago, I came across an article on Twitter, Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks With Ubuntu Linux On The Dell XPS 13, by Jason Evangelho, a long-time Forbes tech writer. Here was a person who was clearly fired up from his recent experience using Linux. He had recently been sent a laptop running Windows 10 for evaluation and, in the middle of a large file transfer, the machine restarted without warning.


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Analyzing the Stack Overflow Survey with Python and Pandas

opensource.com - Mon, 09/30/2019 - 15:01

The Stack Overflow Survey Results for 2019 are in! The dataset is quite large; according to the description:


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