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The post How to Install Apache Nifi in Ubuntu Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Apache NIFI is an open-source scalable tool to manage transformation, data routing, and system mediation logic. To put it in layman’s terms nifi simply automates the flow of data between two or more systems.

The post How to Install Apache Nifi in Ubuntu Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Over the years, I have read many articles and posts about how systemd is trying to replace everything and take over everything in Linux. I agree; it is taking over pretty much everything.

But not really "everything-everything." Just "everything" in that middle ground of services that lies between the kernel and things like the GNU core utilities, graphical user interface desktops, and user applications.

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Lisp was invented in 1958, which makes it the second-oldest computer programming language. It has spawned several modern derivatives, including Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp (Elisp), Clojure, Racket, Scheme, Fennel, and GNU Guile.

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April was full of exciting news in the world of open source. Keep reading for some of the more interesting tidbits, including Linux out of this world... on Mars.

12,000 open source contributors help a helicopter fly on Mars

Linux had a big moment on April 19: The open source operating system powered Ingenuity, a NASA helicopter that was the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars.

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Enve: An Open Source 2D Animation App for Linux & Windows  It's FOSS

Tripple boot 2012 MBP? OSX/Windows/Linux?  Mac Rumors

You can download Ubuntu Linux 21.10 'Impish Indri' daily builds right now!  BetaNews

Linux Software Market to Witness Robust Expansion by 2027 | Google, Twitter, Facebook – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Alyssa Rosenzweig has continued her work reverse engineering and understanding Apple's M1 GPU with the ultimate goal of writing open-source OpenGL and Vulkan support for the Apple M1 GPU on Linux...

Early Gallium3D Work Has Begun Around Apple's M1 GPU With New "AGX" Driver  Phoronix

The OrangeFS open-source parallel file-system designed for cluster computing has a huge performance improvement to its read speeds with Linux 5.13...

OrangeFS Scores An "Extreme Performance Improvement" In Linux 5.13  Phoronix

The 10 Best Linux Server Distributions  MUO - MakeUseOf

Since the publishing of the provisional Vulkan Video specification last month, the only driver on Linux to have exposed any early Vulkan Video support is NVIDIA's Vulkan beta Linux driver. But it would appear that Intel's open-source developers are working at least towards eventually handling this video acceleration API...

Intel Proposes Calibrated Timestamps As It Works Towards Vulkan Video  Phoronix

As part of recent and upcoming new CPU benchmarks on Phoronix and other Linux hardware review testing, April saw more new and updated test profiles for expanding more workloads tested...

How to install Docker CE on Rocky Linux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

While PipeWire continues garnering interest this year for improving Linux sound in user-space, the kernel's sound drivers continue to be improved upon as well and tacking on support for new devices...

New Realtek Audio Support, VirtIO Sound Driver Ready To Play On Linux 5.13  Phoronix

Going back about a half-decade has been the Landlock Linux Security Module (LSM) as a means of allowing even unprivileged processes to create "powerful security" sandboxes. After a number of rounds of reviews and revisions over the year, Landlock has finally been mainlined for Linux 5.13!..