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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

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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

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RADV Vulkan Driver Enables Fragment Shading Rate Support - Limited To GFX10.3 (RDNA 2)

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 13:08
The latest Vulkan extension now supported by Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is support for the new VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate...

Linux Continues Crackdown On User-Space Poking CPU MSRs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 09:07
The Linux kernel this year has seen new safeguards and efforts aiming to have user-space reduce their arbitrary poking of CPU machine specific registers (MSRs) in the name of security and other handling concerns. That effort has continued on with the Linux 5.11 cycle...

Git 2.30-rc0 Released With More Work On "Main" Branch Renaming, Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 07:11
The initial test release of Git 2.30 is now available for evaluation of this distributed revision control system...

Linux 5.10 Didn't Even Last 24 Hours... Linux 5.10.1 Released Due To Bugs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 04:12
It was just yesterday evening -- less than 24 hours ago -- that Linux 5.10 LTS was released but already the first point release has arrived due to bugs in the storage code...

Btrfs Has Many Nice Improvements, Better Performance With Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 04:01
The first set of major file-system material submitted for the newly opened Linux 5.11 merge window are the Btrfs updates...

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