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"core/entry" Is Exciting For Linux 5.11 With Two Big Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 19:15
While a "core/entry" pull request may not seem that exciting, this time around for the Linux 5.11 kernel there are two prominent additions...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.6 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 18:55
AMD has released the newest open-source snapshot of their official AMD Vulkan "AMDVLK" driver for Linux systems...

Linux 5.11 Hardware Monitoring Brings New Additions From AMD Zen 3 To Corsair PSUs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 16:49
HWMON maintainer Guenter Roeck has sent in all of the hardware monitoring changes destined for the Linux 5.11 kernel...

9 things to do in your first 10 minutes on a Linux server

opensource.com - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 16:02

When I test software on Linux (a regular part of my job), I need to use multiple servers with various architectures running Linux. I provision the machines, install the required software packages, run my tests, gather the results, and return the machine to the pool so that others can use it for their tests.


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Try the e3 Linux text editor

opensource.com - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 16:01

What if you could have a tiny text editor with different modes to emulate your choice of Emacs, Vi, Pico, NEdit, and even WordStar? Amazingly, such an editor already exists, and it’s called e3. It has no library dependencies, and its binary is less than 20KB.

Installing

On Linux or BSD, you can install e3 from your distribution’s software repository or ports tree.


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6 container concepts you need to understand

opensource.com - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 16:00

Containerization has radically changed the IT landscape because of the significant value and wide array of benefits it brings to business. Nearly any recent business innovation has containerization as a contributing factor, if not the central element.


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How to Install MariaDB on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 15:46

MariaDB is an open-source, community-developed relational database management system. It is forked from MySQL and created and maintained by the developers who created MySQL. MariaDB is intended to be highly compatible with MySQL but

The post How to Install MariaDB on CentOS 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

How to Set Up High Availability for Namenode – Part 5

Tecmint - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 14:52

Hadoop has two core components which are HDFS and YARN. HDFS is for storing the Data, YARN is for processing the Data. HDFS is Hadoop Distributed File System, it has Namenode as Master Service

The post How to Set Up High Availability for Namenode - Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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