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My first day using Ansible

opensource.com - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 15:01

Getting a new computer, whether physical or virtual, up and running is time-consuming and requires a good deal of work—whether it's your first time or the 50th. For many years, I have used a series of scripts and RPMs that I created to install the packages I need and to perform many bits of configuration for my favorite tools. This approach has worked well and simplified my work, as well as reduced the amount of time I spend typing commands.


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What is measured boot and trusted boot on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 15:00

Sometimes I'm looking around for a subject to write about, and realise that there's one that I assume that I've covered, but, on searching, discover that I haven't. One of those topics is measured boot and trusted boot—sometimes misleadingly referred to as "secure boot." There are specific procedures that use these terms with capital letters (e.g., Secure Boot), which I'm going to try to avoid discussing in this article. I'm more interested in the generic processes—and a major potential downfall—than in trying to go into the ins and outs of specifics.


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Install MariaDB or MySQL on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 15:00

Both MariaDB and MySQL are open source databases that use SQL and share the same original codebase. MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so much so that you use the same command (mysql) to interact with MySQL and MariaDB databases. This article, therefore, applies equally to MariaDB and MySQL.


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How to Install Drupal on Debian 10

Tecmint - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 13:28

Written PHP, Drupal is a free and opensource content management system (CMS) that enables you to create powerful and elegant blogs or websites. It ships with preinstalled themes, widgets, and other out-of-the-box features that

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New Intel / AMD Hardware Support Come With Linux 5.10 "Perf" Additions

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 12:00
New Intel and AMD hardware support headline the performance events work for Linux 5.10 as part of the "perf" subsystem...

Linux 5.10 To Make One Of Its Pseudo Random Number Generators Less Predictable

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 08:00
The Linux kernel's prandom_u32() interface for providing pseudo-random number generation is used heavily by the kernel's networking code but that PRNG output can be figured out rather predictably. Thus lining up for Linux 5.10 is a new prandom_u32 implementation...

Btrfs With Linux 5.10 Brings Some Sizable FSync Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 06:06
The Btrfs file-system is seeing some promising additions with Linux 5.10...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/13/2020 - 03:46
After last week exploring the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Linux GPU compute performance for this Ampere graphics card along with the Blender 2.90 performance, today is a look at the Linux gaming performance for the RTX 3080 both for native games as well as those Windows games running on Linux via Steam Play (Proton).

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