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Monitor your Raspberry Pi with Grafana Cloud

opensource.com - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 16:02

You may have heard of Grafana, a time-series dashboarding tool that helps you discover what's going on in your environment. People from hobbyists to enterprise professionals like to use it for visualizations because it is open source and can accept data from myriad sources. This article describes how to use it to monitor your Raspberry Pi as an example of Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring.


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Learn Java with object orientation by building a classic Breakout game

opensource.com - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 16:01

As a second-semester student in systems and digital media at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, I was given the assignment to remake the classic Atari 2600 Breakout game from 1978. I am still in my infancy in learning software development, and this was a challenging experience. It was also a gainful one because I learned a lot, especially about applying object-oriented concepts.


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3 features that debuted in Python 3.0 you should use now

opensource.com - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 16:00

This is the first in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.0 was first released in 2008, and even though it has been out for a while, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three you should know about.


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How to Speed Up Nginx with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7

Tecmint - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 14:27
The post How to Speed Up Nginx with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Varnish Cache (also referred to as Varnish) is an open-source, high-performance HTTP accelerator designed for speeding up web servers. In our last articles, we’ve explained how to setup Varnish Cache for Apache on CentOS

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How to Speed Up Apache with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7

Tecmint - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 13:35
The post How to Speed Up Apache with Varnish Cache on CentOS 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Varnish Cache (commonly known as Varnish), is an open-source, popular reverse-proxy HTTP accelerator intended for speeding up web servers. It is engineered for excessively utilized API endpoints and also for dynamic sites that serve

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The State of Enterprise Open Source 2021: Four results that may surprise you

Red Hat News - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 13:00

We’re now in the third year of our The State of Enterprise Open Source report in which we probe the use of and attitudes about enterprise open source. This year we conducted interviews with 1,250 IT leaders worldwide. They weren’t necessarily Red Hat customers and were unaware that Red Hat was the sponsor of this survey, helping us to avoid biased or influenced responses.

SDL2 Lands Native PipeWire Support

Phoronix - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 13:00
While SDL2-enabled games/applications can already work on PipeWire-based systems like the forthcoming Fedora Workstation 34 thanks to the PulseAudio compatibility layer, the SDL2 library has merged initial support for interfacing with PipeWire...

AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance Looking Good For AMD With Linux 5.12 Fix

Phoronix - Tue, 03/02/2021 - 05:26
Of the performance-related changes with Linux 5.12 worth noting is faster AES-NI XTS performance for systems relying upon return trampolines "Retpolines" as part of the CPU's Spectre V2 mitigations. On the Intel side this primarily impacts older CPUs where Retpolines is still used while on the AMD side through Zen 3 the Retpolines is still relied upon, which as shown by these benchmarks is now much better off for AMD Ryzen AES XTS performance as measured by Cryptsetup...

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