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Try Chatwoot, an open source customer relationship platform

opensource.com - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 15:00

Chatwoot is an open source customer relationship platform built with Ruby and Vue.js. It was written from scratch to allow customer-relations teams to build end-to-end platforms for ticket management and support.

This article looks at Chatwoot's architecture, installation, and key features.

Chatwoot's architecture

Chatwoot requires the following components to function properly:


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Fedora 35 To Automatically Use Optimal Encryption Sector Size For Better I/O Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 06/27/2021 - 08:25
With this autumn's Fedora 35 release there should be better performance out-of-the-box for those employing LUKS/dm-crypt encryption while using 4K sector size based storage...

Linux 5.14 Set To See Many New Features, New GPU Support, Other Exciting Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 22:00
Linux 5.13 will debut tomorrow if Linus Torvalds is comfortable with the state of the code-base, which in turn will mark the opening of the Linux 5.14 merge window. Here is a look at what is on the table for this next follow-on version of the Linux kernel...

NVIDIA Proposes The Linux Hardware Timestamping Engine

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 21:45
A proposal by NVIDIA engineers for the mainline Linux kernel would introduce the Hardware Timestamping Engine (HTE) subsystem...

DragonFlyBSD To See Better Low-Level Lock Performance When Heavily Contested

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 19:17
Software running on DragonFlyBSD and making use of pthreads is set to see better performance around low-level locks when heavily contested...

Huawei Proposes In-Kernel Transactional Database For Security Purposes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 18:28
While some Huawei engineers are currently facing criticism for submitting superfluous kernel patches in an effort to boost their own or the company's standing in the kernel community, other engineers are Huawei are working on more substantive kernel patches. Here's a rather peculiar new patch series out on Friday where a Huawei engineer is effectively proposing an in-kernel transactional database...

KDE Pushes More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Plug-in System For The Konsole

Phoronix - Sat, 06/26/2021 - 18:00
Even with Akademy 2021 this week as the annual KDE developer conference, thanks in part to it being a virtual event the KDE developers still managed to remain quite productive on new code changes...

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