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Use this cheat sheet for tmux as a terminal multiplexer

opensource.com - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 15:03

Whether you're starting up an elaborate Raspberry Pi homelab or you're managing a building full of workstations, sometimes you need to do the same task on multiple hosts. There are many ways to automate tasks across systems. Ansible, for instance, ensures all systems are in the same state, and sometimes a simple cron job will do.


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Explaining Kubernetes in 10 minutes using an analogy

opensource.com - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 15:02

The concepts behind the Kubernetes container orchestration system can be hard to understand. I created a simple analogy about renting out rooms in a house to help you learn how Kubernetes works.

How to rent rooms in your house

Imagine you own a house with 10 rooms. You want to rent out three of the rooms through an online accommodation service. You have two choices: you can post ads and manage everything yourself, or you can hire someone to do it for you.


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The ultimate back to school guide to open source for teachers

opensource.com - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 15:00

Public education has always been a core value in my family. It was instilled in me from a young age that everybody deserves fair access to high-quality education. This virtue continues to influence me as I raise children of my own, one of whom will be entering kindergarten this fall. Open source is the perfect match for public education.


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Early Intel DG1 Graphics Card Enablement Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 14:47
As we have been anticipating for weeks, initial (but still early) enablement of the Intel DG1 graphics card on their open-source driver stack will indeed be sent in for the upcoming Linux 5.9 cycle and is currently being queued in the DRM-Next repository...

Sway 1.5 Wayland Compositor Released With Adaptive-Sync/VRR, New Protocols

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 12:00
Sway 1.5 is out as a big feature update to this Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager. A big user-facing feature with Sway 1.5 is support for Adaptive Synchronization / Variable Refresh Rate, such as AMD FreeSync...

Valve/CodeWeavers Rolls Out Proton 5.0-10 RC For Death Stranding, One Day After Windows Release

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 07:28
Valve and CodeWeavers have rolled out a release candidate of Proton 5.0-10 as the newest update to their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 06:30
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee formally signed off today on allowing Fedora 33 desktop variants to default to using the Btrfs file-system rather than the existing EXT4 default or other alternatives...

FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 05:27
The FreeBSD project has published their Q2'2020 status report that outlines their neat-complete work on migrating from Subversion to Git plus many hardware support improvements for this BSD operating system and more...

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