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Being autistic in an open organization

opensource.com - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 16:00

After a long and complex diagnostic process, I recently came to the realization that I am autistic (I write more about that on LinkedIn). This knowledge is providing me with new insights—into my life, memorable episodes from my past, and the ways I navigate the world. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of this is how I've managed my career.


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11 Cron Scheduling Task Examples in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 15:45
The post 11 Cron Scheduling Task Examples in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we are going to review and see how we can schedule and run tasks in the background automatically at regular intervals using the Crontab command. Dealing with a frequent job manually

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Linux Performance Monitoring with Vmstat and Iostat Commands

Tecmint - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 14:32
The post Linux Performance Monitoring with Vmstat and Iostat Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This is our ongoing series of Linux Commands and Linux Performance Monitoring, in this article, you will learn about Vmstat and Iostat commands, which are available on all major Unix-like (Linux/Unix/FreeBSD/Solaris) Operating Systems. vmstat

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13 Linux Network Configuration and Troubleshooting Commands

Tecmint - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 14:01
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Computers are connected in a network to exchange information or resources with each other. Two or more computers are connected through network media called a computer network. There is a number of network devices

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Red Hat and Boston University Announce Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 13:00

Those attending Red Hat Summit this past April heard Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier announce our partnership with Boston University, which included expanding the Red Hat Collaboratory to drive innovative research and education in open source technology.

PAPPL 1.1 Open-Source Printer Framework Adds WiFi Configuration, IPP-USB

Phoronix - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 13:00
While CUPS 2.4 was recently released as the first big update in years and since OpenPrinting took over upstream development, CUPS founder Michael Sweet continues concurrently developing PAPPL as a modern, open-source printer appication framework. Wednesday marked the release of PAPPL 1.1...

Glibc 2.35 Bringing Improved Huge Pages Handling, New Tunable

Phoronix - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 08:33
Glibc 2.35 is introducing the new tunable glibc.malloc.hugetlb that can help with improving system performance for some workloads making use of this tunable, depending upon your kernel's hugepages configuration...

Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Phoronix - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 05:00
Valve yesterday introduced experimental Vulkan support for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as an alternative to the long-standing OpenGL path for running CS:GO on Linux. Curious about the performance implications of CS:GO with Vulkan, here are some benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux with a variety of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

Intel CM Compiler Updated For New Platforms, Including Ponte Vecchio "XT"

Phoronix - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 04:17
Intel's CM Compiler for their "C for Metal" programming language has been updated for various new GPU targets, including not only Xe HPC "Ponte Vecchio" but also a Ponte Vecchio XT variant...

X.Org Server 21.1.2 Released With Security Fixes, Back To Pretending All Displays Are 96 DPI

Phoronix - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 02:54
Following yesterday's disclosure of four new X.Org Server security vulnerabilities that could lead to local privilege escalation, X.Org Server 21.1.2 is now available with those security fixes plus other changes...

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