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It Pays To Use GNU/Linux On The Desktop
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015 - Desktop Operating System
Windows 7 - 33.8%
Mac OS X - 21.5%
Linux - 20.5%
Windows 8 - 19.5% -
A conversation with Gene Kim on DevOps, waterfall development, and containers
Gene Kim: It's called "The DevOps Cookbook," and it was actually supposed to come out before "The Phoenix Project." The goal of the book is to put into context the cultural norms, principles, and observed patterns in high-performing organizations that enable fast flow of features from dev to ops while preserving world-class reliability and stability. For me, I think the big surprise three years into this project is that it’s as much about organizational learning as it is about key performance measures.
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CoreOS moves tectonic plates, Docker may feel earthquakes
Cloud is the next big front for some serious tech warfare and CoreOS just got the much needed ammunition.
First things first. CoreOS is a company that offers a solution with the same name. And this solution is an extremely light and minimalistic operating system based on Google’s Chrome OS (or you can also call it a fork).
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Systemd Adds Reboot To EFI Firmware Option
Systemd's logind and systemctl components have added support for rebooting to the EFI firmware setup. Running systemctl --firmware-setup (or accessing via systemd's logind interfaces) will cause the system's firmware UEFI setup utility to show at next boot as another alternative to just hitting DEL/F2 at boot time or newer distributions that add a boot menu entry to GRUB2 for EFI firmware configuration. Of course, this will only work for newer systems that were originally booted in the EFI mode.
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Linus Tovalds Talks About Git and Why the Linux Kernel Needed It
Linus Torvalds is mostly known for developing the Linux kernel, but he's also the one who made Git, the distributed revision control system that's used today for numerous projects, including the kernel. The project just turned ten years old, and Linus made some comments about this fact.
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New Intel Improvements In Mesa Git, Including For Old Hardware
There's more improvements in Mesa Git to talk about this week for Intel open-source customers, including those still on older "Gen4" graphics hardware.
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FreeGLUT Ported Natively To Wayland
FreeGLUT, the open-source replacement to GLUT for handling system-specific setup tasks like windowing system configuration and OpenGL initialization, now is natively supported on Wayland.
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70 Intel DRM Linux Kernel Patches Bring Some Performance Optimizations
Chris Wilson of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center hasn't yet managed the xf86-video-intel 3.0 DDX release, but over in kernel-space, he's just published a set of 70 new DRM patches for the Intel kernel driver.
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More SPIR-V & Vulkan Details Might Be Revealed Next Week
The Khronos UK Chapter is holding a meeting at the LLVM conference happening one week from today at the Goldsmiths University in London. Vulkan, SPIR-V, and OpenCL 2.1 will be the primary discussion items for the event lasting the afternoon.
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NVIDIA 346.59 Linux Driver Brings Support For New GPUs
If you're not on the NVIDIA 349 Linux beta but rather an older version of NVIDIA's binary Linux driver, today they released the 346.59 bug-fix release as the latest in their long-lived series.
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AMD's GPU LLVM Backend Gains Support For Assembler & Inline Assembly
Tom Stellard of AMD has landed initial support into the AMD GPU LLVM back-end for the assembler and supporting inline assembly.
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