Open-source News

Defining cloud native, expanding the ecosystem, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 21:30

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are three of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Intel ISPC Compiler Lands GPU Code Generation Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 20:46
Intel's open-source ISPC (the Intel SPMD Program Compiler) now has preliminary support for code generation targeting their GPUs...

AMD's ROCm AOMP Compiler 11.7-1 Brings OMPD Support, ROCgdb

Phoronix - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 17:09
The AMD ROCm developer tool engineers have released a new build of AOMP, their LLVM Clang compiler downstream that adds OpenMP support for Radeon GPU offloading until that support ultimately makes it back upstream into LLVM/Clang...

How to Install Nagios 4 in Ubuntu and Debian

Tecmint - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 15:31
In this topic we’ll learn how to install and configure the latest official version of Nagios Core from sources in Debian and Ubuntu servers. Nagios Core is a free Open Source network monitoring application

Monitor systemd journals via email

opensource.com - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 15:02

Modern Linux systems often use systemd as their init system and manager for jobs and many other functions. Services managed by systemd generally send their output (of all forms: warnings, errors, informational messages, and more) to the systemd journal, not to traditional logging systems like syslog.


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10 cheat sheets for Linux sysadmins

opensource.com - Thu, 07/30/2020 - 15:01

When you're a systems administrator, you don't just have one job; you have ALL the jobs, and often each one is on-demand with little to no warning. Unless you do a task every day, you may not always have all the commands and options you need in mind when you need them. And that's why I love cheat sheets.

Cheat sheets help you avoid silly mistakes, they keep you from having to look through pages of documentation, and they keep you moving efficiently through your tasks. I've selected my favorite 10 cheat sheets for any sysadmin, regardless of experience level.


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