today's howtos

• AWS S3 + GitLab CI = automatic deploy for every branch of your static website

• How to Stop Ubuntu From Collecting Data About Your PC

• How To Upgrade Ubuntu from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS using Command Lines

• Install Dropbox In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop

• Linux id Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)

• An introduction to Python bytecode

• Swift Language: How to easily install SWIFT on Linux

• How to install Coppermine Photo Gallery on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

• Raspberry Pi Series Part 1: Laying Out The Basics

Kernel and Graphics: BUS1, Linux 4.17 RC2, Wayland's Weston and Mesa

• BUS1 Still Remains Out Of The Mainline Linux Kernel, But DBus-Broker Continues

  The BUS1 in-kernel IPC mechanism born out of the ashes of KDBUS still hasn't been mainlined in the Linux kernel, but its code is still improved upon from time to time. At least though DBus-Broker as a new performance-oriented D-Bus implementation continues gaining ground in user-space. DBus-Broker was announced last year as a new message bus implementation of D-Bus focused on high performance and reliability while continuing to offer compatibility with the original D-Bus implementation.

• Linux 4.17-rc2 Kernel Released With Mostly Routine Changes

  Linus Torvalds has announced the availability of the second weekly test release for what is becoming the Linux 4.17 kernel.

• Wayland's Weston Gets Optimizations For Its Pixman Renderer

  Wayland's Weston reference compositor with its Pixman software-based renderer back-end has received a number of performance optimizations. Fabien Lahoudere of Collabora posted a set of patches today to optimize the Pixman renderer for Weston. In particular, there are optimizations around compositing damage to the screen as well as optimizing the shadow buffer usage. The Weston Pixman renderer is often used as a software accelerated fallback in cases where no GPU hardware acceleration may be available. As implied by the name, it uses the long-standing Pixman library that is also used by Cairo, the X.Org Server, etc, for pixel manipulation on the CPU.

• Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For ARM Mali Can Now Render A Cube

  The Panfrost open-source driver project previously known as "Chai" for creating an open-source 3D driver stack for ARM's Mali Midgard hardware now has a working shaded cube being rendered using the open-source code as part of its new "half-way" driver based on Gallium3D.

Thunderbolt 3 in Fedora 28

• The state of Thunderbolt 3 in Fedora 28

  Fedora 28 is around the corner and I wanted to highlight what we did to make the Thunderbolt 3 experience as smooth as possible. Although this post focuses on Fedora 28 for what is currently packaged and shipping, all changes are of course available upstream and should hit other distributions in the future.

• Thunderbolt 3 Support Is In Great Shape For Fedora 28

  Red Hat developers have managed to deliver on their goals around improving Thunderbolt support on the Linux desktop with the upcoming Fedora 28 distribution update. This has been part of their goal of having secure Thunderbolt support where users can authorize devices and/or restrict access to certain capabilities on a per-device basis, which is part of Red Hat's Bolt project and currently has UI elements for the GNOME desktop.

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