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How a local government migrated to open source

opensource.com - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 15:01

In 2015, the Eyüpsultan Municipality in Istanbul, Turkey, began a bold migration to adopting open source software. This involved several major changes: Linux on the desktop and major changes to the IT infrastructure, including a transition to the Zimbra email server and the PostgreSQL database.


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Ring the school bell at home on your Linux computer

opensource.com - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 15:00

Many students are used to the bell ringing to signal the beginning of each school day, class changes, and dismissal time. There's no feeling quite like that last bell at the end of last period telling you are free to leave the building. But virtual and homeschool students probably don't get to hear that familiar ring and may even miss it. We're all trying to restore a bit of normalcy these days for the kids who may be longing for the sights, smells, and sounds of their school building.


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A Kernel Maintainer's Prediction On The CPU Architecture Landscape For 2030

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 14:51
In addition to talking about code/hardware obsolescence from the Linux kernel, prominent upstream Linux kernel developer Arnd Bermann also presented at last week's Linux Plumbers Conference on the current SoC landscape and sharing his predictions for ten years down the road...

How to Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 13:56

Apache Cassandra is a high-performance opensource NoSQL database engine that provides fault tolerance, linear scalability, and consistency across multiple nodes. Give its distributed architecture, Apache Cassandra handles huge volumes of data with dynamo-style replication.

The post How to Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu 20.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Genode OS 20.08 Has Chromium Web Engine Running, Low-Level GUI Work

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 12:09
The Genode OS project is out with its 20.08 version bump that brings some high profile improvements for this open-source operating system framework...

Linux 5.9-rc3 Is A "Pretty Calm" Release

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 08:26
Linus Torvalds has released the sixth weekly test version of the forthcoming Linux 5.9 kernel...

Is It Time To Overhaul The GNU Dynamic Linker?

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 03:12
At the GNU Tools Track during this week's Linux Plumbers Conference was an interesting talk by Red Hat's Ben Woodard. He shares his perspective on how the GNU dynamic linker (ld.so) could be ripe for an overhaul in the 2020's...

Nintendo Switch Controller Driver To Be Upstreamed With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 02:58
There has been the out-of-tree DKMS hid-nintendo driver to support the Nintendo Switch controller on Linux while with the Linux 5.10 kernel later this year that driver will be merged...

VirtIO-FS DAX Support Close To Mainline For Offering Tremendous Performance Boost

Phoronix - Sun, 08/30/2020 - 22:37
Judging from the latest FUSE Git activity, it's looking like the VirtIO-FS DAX patches that have been around since last year could be merged for Linux 5.10. This can provide a significant speed-up for those making use of this FUSE file-system for sharing files/folders with guest VMs...

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