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How I use Cockpit for my home's Linux server management

opensource.com - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 16:02

Cockpit is a service for Linux that provides a web-based interface for managing and monitoring hosts. It can be deployed in any size organization, even a small office, and it's a great way for home users to maintain the family IT infrastructure. I use it to manage and monitor all of the computers in my house—including Raspberry Pi.

Cockpit is a free and open source software project released under the LGPL v2.1+. It is sponsored by Red Hat and included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the RHEL Web Console.


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Create your first Knative app

opensource.com - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 16:01

Knative is an open source community project that adds components to Kubernetes for deploying, running, and managing serverless, cloud-native applications. It enables more productive development with less interaction with Kubernetes' infrastructure.


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Why I use Home Assistant for open source home automation

opensource.com - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 16:00

Home automation is a slippery slope; you have been warned! In this multipart series, I will discuss home automation using the open source project Home Assistant. This introductory article will cover my journey to Home Assistant, what the application does, and why it's important.


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Intel Releases New Processor Microcode For Security Advisories, CPU Bugs

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 15:49
Intel on Tuesday evening released their 20201110 CPU microcode package as their first collection of updated CPU microcode binaries since June and it's a big update...

How to Install and Configure Cloudera Manager on CentOS/RHEL 7 – Part 3

Tecmint - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 15:28

In this article, we described the step by step process to install Cloudera Manager as per industrial practices. In Part 2, we already have gone through the Cloudera Pre-requisites, make sure all the servers

The post How to Install and Configure Cloudera Manager on CentOS/RHEL 7 - Part 3 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Microsoft Releases .NET 5.0 With Many Performance Improvements, Continued Linux Work

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 13:00
Microsoft on Tuesday released .NET 5.0 as their latest work on unifying their .NET stack and continuing along with support for Linux and other non-Windows platforms...

SDL2 Adds Support For The Xbox Series X Controller

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 05:29
Last week Valve added Sony PlayStation 5 controller support to SDL2 while today there is launch-day support for the Xbox Series X controller for this cross-platform abstraction layer popular with games...

Apple Releases M1-Powered Apple Silicon Macs, macOS Big Sur Releasing This Week

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 03:06
As was widely expected for today's Apple event, the Cupertino company just announced their first three Macs powered by Apple Silicon...

Intel Discloses 40 More Security Advisories - PLATYPUS Is An Interesting One

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 02:34
As part of Intel's monthly security disclosures the company is today releasing forty new security advisories today...

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