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Monitor your Linux server with Checkmk

opensource.com - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 15:01

Monitoring IT assets is an essential task for any IT department. Still, due to the growing number of devices in corporate networks, it is getting more and more challenging to find an approach that is flexible enough to monitor the wide range of available systems properly. It's essential to have a monitoring tool that is flexible, scalable, and easy to use.


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Red Hat Looking To Bolster EPEL

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 15:00
Red Hat is said to be establishing a "small team" to work on activities around EPEL, the "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux" that is popular with RHEL/CentOS users for easily fetching extra packages not available via RHEL proper...

Print files from your Linux terminal

opensource.com - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 15:00

Printing on Linux is easy, but sometimes it feels like a lot of work to launch an application, open a file, find the Print selection in the menu, click a confirmation button, and so on. When you're a Linux terminal user, you often want to perform complex actions with simple triggers. Printing is complex, and there's little as simple as the lpr command.

Print using the lpr command

To print a file from your terminal, use the lpr command:


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10 sFTP Command Examples to Transfer Files on Remote Servers in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 14:25
The post 10 sFTP Command Examples to Transfer Files on Remote Servers in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was a widely used protocol to transfer files or data remotely in an unencrypted format which is not a secure way to communicate. As we all know that File Transfer

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10 Useful “IP” Commands to Configure Network Interfaces

Tecmint - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 14:00
The post 10 Useful “IP” Commands to Configure Network Interfaces first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The ip command is a new networking command-line utility that is used to assign an IP address to a network interface or configure/update useful network variables on a Linux system. It is a part

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Looking back on 30 years of Linux history with Red Hat's Stephen Smoogen

Red Hat News - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 12:00

For the 30th anniversity of the Linux kernel and the 2nd version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), we talked to Red Hatters who have been involved with Linux since the early days. Read our interview with Senior Software Engineer Stephen Smoogen.

GCC 12 Looking At Enabling Its Vectorizer For "-O2" Optimization Level

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 08:30
The GCC compiler when using the default "-O2" optimization level is likely to be slightly faster with next year's GCC 12 release as the developers are looking at enabling the vectorizer options by default...

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 03:00
Last month were our benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on Linux for that new desktop APU with Zen 3 cores and Vega graphics available through retail channels. Due to reader interest and with the Ryzen 5 5600G still readily available via Internet retailers, here is a look at the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Linux performance in a variety of benchmarks.

EXT4 Ready With Some New Optimizations - Orphan_File, Moving Discard's Work

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 01:44
It's busy on the Linux file-system front for the 5.15 cycle woth Btrfs adding a degenerate RAID option along with performance improvements to big improvements for XFS and now comes the EXT4 updates...

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