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12 Open Source/Commercial Software for Data Center Infrastructure Management

Tecmint - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 16:52

When a company grows its demand in computing resources grows as well. It works for regular companies as for providers, including those renting out dedicated servers. When the total number of racks exceeds 10

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10 Open Source/Commercial Control Panels For Virtual Machines (VM’s) Management

Tecmint - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 15:15

Automatic creation and management of virtual machines is a topical issue for any company that provides VPS services. If you manage a large number of machines, a command line is definitely not the only

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How to choose an affordable Linux laptop for video conferencing

opensource.com - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 15:02

As more and more activities move online during the global pandemic, an increasing number of folks are looking for affordable and stable solutions to connect to their doctor, therapist, bank, college, and more. Many of the folks I've been working with are on limited incomes, and they're eager for any technical help they can get.


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6 open source virtualization technologies to know in 2020

opensource.com - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 15:01

Virtualization Tools, better known as Virt Tools, is a collection of six open source virtualization tools created by various contributors to make the virtualization world a better place.


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Why we open sourced our security project

opensource.com - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 15:00

When Nathaniel McCallum and I embarked on the project that is now called Enarx, we made one decision right at the beginning: the code for Enarx would be open source, a stance fully supported by our employer, Red Hat (see the standard disclaimer on my blog). All of it, and forever.


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What is MariaDB? How Does MariaDB Work?

Tecmint - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 12:17

MariaDB, a fork of MySQL is one of the most popular open-source SQL (Structured Query Language) relational databases management systems, made by the original developers of MySQL. It is designed for speed, reliability, and

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Linux 5.10 Slated To Use New Intel SERIALIZE In Fending Off Speculative Execution Bugs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 12:06
Queued now in the "x86/cpu" development branch ahead of the Linux 5.10 kernel later this year is the change to make use of Intel's new "SERIALIZE" instruction within the kernel's "sync_core" code that is used for stopping the speculative execution and prefetching of modified code...

Firefox 80 Available With VA-API On X11, WebGL Parallel Shader Compile Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/25/2020 - 08:36
Firefox 80.0 is now available. There isn't too much to get excited about with Firefox 80, but at least some changes on the developer front...

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