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How I use Ansible and anacron for automation

opensource.com - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 15:00

Automation is the great IT and DevOps ideal, but in my experience, anything that's not immediately convenient may as well not exist at all. There have been many times when I've come up with a pretty good solution for some task, and I'll even script it, but I stop short of making it literally automated because the infrastructure for easy automation doesn't exist on the machine I'm working on.


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Using Ansible with REST APIs

opensource.com - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 15:00

Ansible is a top open source project which, on the surface, looks to provide a simple way to standardize your existing automation and allow it to run in parallel across multiple hosts, and it does this very successfully. Yet, in reality, Ansible has the capabilities to extend what your existing automation does to incorporate other systems and really simplify tasks across all aspects of your daily routine.


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Mesa 21.2.3 Released As A Small Update To This Graphics Driver Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 07:27
Succeeding Mesa 21.2.2 from earlier this month that was a much delayed and in turn very large release, Mesa 21.2.3 is out today and it's on the quieter side...

"pkill_on_warn" Proposed For Killing Linux Processes That Cause A Kernel Warning

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 03:32
A new kernel option was proposed today called "pkill_on_warn" that would kill all threads in a process if that process provoked a kernel warning...

Libcamera Maturing Well As Open-Source Camera Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 02:30
Libcamera as an open-source camera stack that has been coming together over the past few years has been maturing quite well, broadening its supported hardware and feature set, and more in filling a void in the Linux camera ecosystem...

Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Is Quite Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 21:18
Recently I carried out some updated Windows 11 benchmarks against Linux to look at how this forthcoming Microsoft operating system release is competing with Ubuntu. In this article is a fresh look at the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) performance on the near-final Windows 11 against Ubuntu Linux.

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