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Linux Thursday - Jan 4, 2019 - New Year Edition
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One Week at a Time | Coder Radio 339
Mike’s just had the talk, and now it’s time to make some changes. Including admitting he was wrong about Swift.
Plus we read some feedback, answer some questions, and destroy another computer.
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How To Understand And Identify File types in Linux
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How to add data into MySQL tables from the command line
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Integration of sandboxed Qt applications
We have been using various tweaks to make sandboxed Qt apps well integrated into the system. For KDE Plasma integration, we have been allowing access to kdeglobals config file, where we store the most common configuration, like used icon theme, widget style, etc. A similar approach has been used by Gnome, where they need to allow access to DConf, otherwise applications will not be able to read default system configuration. These tweaks have been usually set in the runtimes and applications using these runtimes automatically inherited all the needed permissions during the build. This has some weak spots, because changing permissions in the runtime requires all applications to be rebuild to pick up the changes, or applications not using the runtimes at all had to allow all the access themself and really not everyone knows what everything needs to be enabled.
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Fedora Firefox heads to updates with PGO/LTO.
I’ve had lots of fun with GCC performance tuning at Fedora but without much results. When Mozilla switched its official builds to clang I considered that too due to difficulties with GCC PGO/LTO setup and inferior Fedora Firefox builds speed compared to Mozilla official builds.
That movement woke up GCC fans to parry that threat. Lots of arguments were brought to that ticket about clang insecurity and missing features. More importantly upstream developer Honza Hubicka found and fixed profile data generation bug (beside the others) and Jakub Jelinek worked out a GCC bug which caused Firefox crash at startup.
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Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers?
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Apple’s Biggest Problem? My Mom
But the most consequential hit to Apple’s bottom line may be from people who are holding on to their phones for longer. Back in 2015, iPhones were being replaced after roughly two years, on average, according to BayStreet Research, a firm that tracks smartphone sales. That period has jumped to roughly three years, and is expected to grow even more.
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Aquantia Announces Multi-Gig Ethernet Controllers, Coming Soon To ASUS Boards
Separately, Intel has been prepping their own 2.5G Ethernet controllers and as of Linux 4.20 is already the "IGC" Intel 2.5G Ethernet driver.
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