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Often when doing cross-distribution benchmarks, readers often comment on the performance of Clear Linux particularly for video encoding use-cases as surprisingly different from other distributions. Some argue that it's just over the default CPU frequency scaling governor or compiler flag defaults, so here is a look at that with Ubuntu 19.10 daily benchmarked against Clear Linux...

Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Video Encoder Performance On The Core i9 9900K  Phoronix

Often when doing cross-distribution benchmarks, readers often comment on the performance of Clear Linux particularly for video encoding use-cases as ...

Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Video Encoder Performance On The Core i9 9900K  Phoronix

Often when doing cross-distribution benchmarks, readers often comment on the performance of Clear Linux particularly for video encoding use-cases as ...

While just yesterday the big DRM feature pull was sent in for Linux 5.4, AMD has also volleyed out their initial batch of fixes for this next version of the kernel...

Here Are The 5 Most Popular Snap Apps On Ubuntu And Other Popular Linux Distributions  Forbes

Thanks to a new post on the SnapCraft blog, we have a glimpse into what some of those favorites are across six popular Linux distributions.

Here Are The 5 Most Downloaded Snap Apps On Ubuntu And Other Popular Linux Distributions  Forbes

Thanks to a new post on the SnapCraft blog, we have a glimpse into what some of those favorites are across six popular Linux distributions.

MySQL is the most widely used open-source database management system used to keep and retrieve data for a broad variety of famous applications. In Debian 10, MariaDB comes with by default as a drop-in...

For those anxious to make use of GNOME 3.34 with its many own performance improvements atop Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux rolling-release distribution, it looks like the wait is still going on for a few more days but is coming "soon-ish" to the platform...

I am no expert on teaching programming, but when I want to get better at something, I try to find a way to have fun with it. For example, when I wanted to get better at shell scripting, I decided to practice by programming a version of the Minesweeper game in Bash.

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String comparison is a fundamental operation in programming and is often quizzed during interviews. These strings are a sequence of characters that are immutable which means unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

Java has a number of methods for comparing strings; this article will teach you the primary operation of how to compare strings in Java.

There are six options:

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GNOME 3.34 Should Be Hitting Clear Linux "Soon-ish"  Phoronix

Software teams seeking to provide better products and services must focus on faster release cycles. But running reliable systems at ever-increasing speeds presents a big challenge. Software teams can have both quality and speed by adjusting their policies around ongoing service ownership. While on-call plays a large part in this model, advancement in knowledge, more resilient code, increased collaboration, and better practices mean engineers don't have to wake up to a nightmare.

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Software teams seeking to provide better products and services must focus on faster release cycles. But running reliable systems at ever-increasing speeds presents a big challenge. Software teams can have both quality and speed by adjusting their policies around ongoing service ownership. While on-call plays a large part in this model, advancement in knowledge, more resilient code, increased collaboration, and better practices mean engineers don't have to wake up to a nightmare.

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Top 5 Snaps In Linux Distros Revealed By Canonical  Fossbytes

To help different Linux distro users see a common light, the creator of Ubuntu - Canonical - shared the data of the top 5 snaps being used across some of the ...

The OpenZFS file-system could soon be seeing better data deduplication support...

Like the mostly mundane Btrfs and XFS changes with the Linux 5.4 merge window, the EXT4 file-system activity is mostly focused on fixes too but also new debugging ioctls...

For more than five years we have been driving our technology strategy around the idea that the future of enterprise IT does not reside solely in an enterprise datacenter or in the public cloud. Instead the next wave of computing is built on a blend of these technologies and infrastructure: in short, the future is hybrid.

A Total War Saga: TROY coming to macOS and Linux in 2020  TweakTown

Thursday, 19th September, 2019 - Feral Interactive today announced that A Total War Saga: TROY, the historical strategy game inspired by the Trojan war, will ...

Haiku as the open-source operating system that still maintains BeOS compatibility continues tacking on modern features and support for software well past the days of BeOS...

Linux for ethical hackers 101  Security Boulevard

Introduction In this article, we'll discuss the Linux operating system and how it ties in with ethical hacking. We will explore the Linux distributions that have been ...