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How to Install Zabbix Agent and Add Windows Host to Zabbix Monitoring – Part 4

Tecmint - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 13:00
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Following previous tutorials concerning the Zabbix series, this article describes how to install and set up an instance of a Zabbix agent to run as a service on Microsoft Windows systems in order to

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Looking back on 30 years of Linux history with Red Hat's Ethan Dicks

Red Hat News - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 12:00

The Linux kernel and the second version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) turned 30 this year. As part of that major milestone, we talked to Red Hatter Ethan Dicks, who has been using Linux since the early 1990s.

How to Install and Configure Zabbix Agents on Remote Linux – Part 3

Tecmint - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 11:55
The post How to Install and Configure Zabbix Agents on Remote Linux – Part 3 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Continuing the Zabbix series, this tutorial will guide you on how you can install and configure Zabbix agents on Linux (Debian-based systems and RHEL-based distros) in order to actively monitor local resources on remote

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Amazon Open-Sources Babelfish for PostgreSQL To More Easily Move Away From Microsoft SQL

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 06:13
Amazon Web Services today announced the open-source Babelfish for PostgreSQL server project. Babelfish allows for applications written against Microsoft SQL Server to work seamlessly with PostgreSQL...

Fedora 35 Cleared For Release Next Week

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 02:08
After dealing with blocker bugs the past two weeks, Fedora 35 is now confirmed for releasing next week...

Linux + GCC/Clang Patches Coming For Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation On x86/x86_64

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:54
Disclosed last year by Arm was their processors affected by a straight-line speculation vulnerability. In this case the processor could speculatively execute instructions linearly in memory past an unconditional change in control flow. There has been talk about possible straight-line speculation on x86/x86_64 but without any action while now GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler developers along with Linux kernel developers are preparing such mitigation support...

Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:24
The wlroots modular Wayland compositing library that was started by the Sway compositor now has an initial Vulkan renderer merged...

Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Continues In The Right Direction For AArch64

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:00
As a good sign ahead of the important Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release in the spring, Ubuntu 21.10 further ups the 64-bit ARM (AArch64) performance. Here is a look at some of the gains in going from Ubuntu 21.04 to the recently released Ubuntu 21.10.

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