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Not All Of The IBM POWER10 Firmware Is Open-Source

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 20:00
Power E1080 server as their first in a new family of servers based on the IBM POWER10 processor. Sadly though not all of the POWER10 firmware is open-source...

OverlayFS On Linux 5.15 Improves Performance, Copies Up More Attributes

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 19:02
OverlayFS continues to be used by Linux IoT/embedded devices and other use-cases as a union mount file-system. With Linux 5.15 the OverlayFS file-system continues to improve...

Facebook Opens Up CacheLib As Their New Caching Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 18:22
Facebook last week formally announced CacheLib as their new open-source caching engine designed for web scale services and to make for effective non-volatile memory caching to offset the increasing costs of DRAM...

Intel Working On DP 2.0 Panel Replay Power Savings For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 17:57
Last month Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers began posting patches working on DisplayPort 2.0 support for their driver with DG2/Alchemist now set to be Intel's first GPU supporting the newest DP standard. DP 2.0 enablement work continues with Panel Replay being the latest feature being worked on for their Linux driver...

Linux 5.15 Hit By Some Early Performance Regressions But Quickly Reverted

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 17:37
In addition to Linus Torvalds dealing with the -Werror fallout, separately in kernel land there were also some significant performance regressions introduced during the Linux 5.15 that led to Linus reverting some of the changes...

How I migrated a WordPress website to a new host

opensource.com - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 15:01

Have you ever needed to migrate a WordPress website to a new host? I have done it several times and found the process to be quite easy. Of course, I don't use the recommended methods for doing most things, and this is no exception–I use the easy way, and that is what I recommend.

This migration is non-destructive, so it is simple to revert to the original server if that should be necessary for any reason.


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Debug a web page error from the command line

opensource.com - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 15:00

Sometimes when managing a website, things can get messed up. You might remove some stale content and replace it with a redirect to other pages. Later, after making other changes, you find some web pages become entirely inaccessible. You might see an error in your browser that "The page isn't redirecting properly" with a suggestion to check your cookies.


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