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How to Automate MySQL Database Backups with Shell Script and Cron

Tecmint - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 16:00
The post How to Automate MySQL Database Backups with Shell Script and Cron first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Backups are essential for keeping your data safe, and automating the backup process can save you both time and effort.

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ttyd: Share Your Linux Terminal on the Web Securely

Tecmint - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 13:00
The post ttyd: Share Your Linux Terminal on the Web Securely first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ttyd is a lightweight, open-source command-line tool that enables you to share your Linux terminal session via a web browser.

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Linux 6.15-rc4 Released With Performance Regression Fix, Corrected Bcachefs Case Folding

Phoronix - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 07:03
Linux 6.15-rc4 is now available after a rather eventful week and about one month to go until the stable Linux 6.15...

OpenBSD 7.7 Released With AMD SEV Guest Bits, Initial Radeon RX 9070 GPU Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 03:17
Theo de Raadt announced today the release of OpenBSD 7.7, the 58th release for this BSD operating system over the past two decades...

FFmpeg Merges Decoder For Samsung's APV - Advanced Professional Video Codec

Phoronix - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 00:42
Merged today to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library is an APV decoder and APV bitstream muxing and demuxing capabilities. APV is the Advanced Professional Video Codec originally developed by Samsung and is a royalty-free format...

Deferred THP Insertion Nearing The Linux Kernel To Help Avoid Memory Waste

Phoronix - Sun, 04/27/2025 - 20:47
A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's "MM" memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepaged. This deferred Transparent Huge Page (THP) insertion aims to help reduce memory waste on Linux with some workloads...

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