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What happens when you terminate Kubernetes containers on purpose?

opensource.com - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 15:01

In this series celebrating Kubernetes' 11th birthday, I've introduced some great tools for chaos engineering. In the first article, I explained what chaos engineering is, and in the second, I demonstrated how to get your system's steady state so that you can compare it against a chaos state.


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It Turns Out Windows Unconditionally Reserves The First 1MB Of RAM, Linux Was Just Late To Do So

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 15:00
Sent in last weekend to the Linux 5.13 kernel was the change so Linux x86/x86_64 will always reserve the first 1MB of RAM in order to avoid corruption issues with some BIOS and frame-buffers sometimes fiddling with that lowest portion of system memory. While the thought was reserving that first 1MB unconditionally was a bit onerous and that perhaps Windows has some way of determining how much low memory area to reserve, it turns out Windows has been employing this same behavior for years...

Making portable functions across serverless platforms

opensource.com - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 15:00

The rising popularity of serverless development alongside the increased adoption of multi- and hybrid-cloud architectures has created a lot of competition among platforms. This gives developers many choices about where they can run functions on serverless platforms—from public managed services to on-premises Kubernetes.


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Configure FreeDOS in plain text

opensource.com - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 15:00

The main configuration file for FreeDOS is a file in the root directory called FDCONFIG.SYS. This file contains a series of lines, each setting a value such as LASTDRIVE=Z or FILES=40. For example, the default FDCONFIG.SYS in FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 looks like this:


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How to Test Your Linux Internet Speed Using Speedtest CLI

Tecmint - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 13:14
The post How to Test Your Linux Internet Speed Using Speedtest CLI first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

We always need to check the speed of the Internet connection at home and office. What do we do about this? Go to websites like Speedtest.net and begin the test. It loads JavaScript in

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How Red Hat and Capgemini helped Deutsche Telekom enable greater connectivity

Red Hat News - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 12:00

As one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, Deutsche Telekom has an overarching goal: to enable connectivity in society. And providing fast, reliable internet to as many people as possible is one way it’s achieving that goal. 

OnLogic Introduces New AMD Ryzen Powered Industrial Grade Mini-ITX Thin Client

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 12:00
Often times when checking out thin clients and industrial PCs / IoT units from OnLogic and other industrial PC vendors, they tend to be Intel powered and within the forums the first question is often about any AMD equivalent... For those wondering about any new AMD-powered thin clients / mini-ITX systems within an aluminum chassis, OnLogic has introduced the TM800...

Fast – Test Your Internet Download Speed from Linux Terminal

Tecmint - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 11:39
The post Fast – Test Your Internet Download Speed from Linux Terminal first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If your internet download speed seems poor, you most likely go to Speedtest.net and check, yes?. This is the easiest way to test the speeds that we’re getting from our internet service provider, and

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GRUB 2.06 Released With BootHole Fixes, LUKS2 Encrypted Volume Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 06:03
It's shipping one year late but GRUB 2.06 is now officially available as the latest version of this widely-used open-source bootloader...

New open source agriculture project, Stack Overflow survey, and celebrate open source maintainers

opensource.com - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 04:00

Read on to learn more about what made news in the open source world last month.

Linux Foundation launches open source agriculture infrastructure project

A wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT)-connected tools has reached the agricultural space. The Linux Foundation announced a new project, called AgStack Foundation, to boost open source infrastructure across global agriculture.


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