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10 Ansible modules for Linux system automation

opensource.com - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 15:02

Ansible is a complete automation solution for your IT environment. You can use Ansible to automate Linux and Windows server configuration, orchestrate service provisioning, deploy cloud environments, and even configure your network devices.


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7 Git tricks that changed my life

opensource.com - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 15:02

Git is one of the most common version control systems available, and it's used on private systems and publicly hosted websites for all kinds of development work. Regardless of how proficient with Git I become, it seems there are always features left to discover. Here are seven tricks that have changed the way I work with Git.

1. Autocorrection in Git

We all make typos sometimes, but if you have Git's auto-correct feature enabled, you can let Git automatically fix a mistyped subcommand.


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Manage content using Pulp Debian

opensource.com - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 15:00

Pulp is an open source repository management tool that helps you fetch, mirror, upload, and publish content within your organization. It can be used to manage various types of content such as software packages (from RPM packages to Ruby gems), as well as Ansible collections, container images, and even arbitrary files.


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Linux Patches AIm To Provide Fork'ing Brute Force Attack Mitigation

Phoronix - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 12:20
Building off a set of "request for comments" patches from September, a set of patches were sent out on Sunday for providing brute force attack mitigation around the fork system call...

The Red Hat Accelerators Wear Many Fedoras

Red Hat News - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 12:00

Building community and serving our customers is a huge part of Red Hat. Not only do we encourage customers to get involved, but we also create and foster various opportunities where it’s possible to do so. A perfect example of this is Red Hat Accelerators, which launched as an established way to serve passionate enterprise customers who wanted to share and engage with each other around relevant IT issues, remedies, and solutions.

Linux 5.10-rc1 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Additions

Phoronix - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 06:48
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.10-rc1 that also marks the end of the feature merge window for this EOY2020 kernel. Linux 5.10 isn't the largest kernel update in recent time but still has a lot of interesting additions and improvements...

Linux 5.10 Brings Many Changes From Better CPU Support To File-System Optimizations

Phoronix - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:30
The Linux 5.10 merge window is set to close this afternoon followed by around seven weeks worth of release candidates before the stable kernel release in December. As usual here is our look at the many new features set to premiere with this next version of the Linux kernel.

New TTM Code Can Yield 3~5x Faster Page Allocation For AMDGPU, Other Benefits

Phoronix - Mon, 10/26/2020 - 00:00
The Linux kernel's TTM memory management code that is most notably used by the Radeon / AMDGPU kernel drivers but also Nouveau, QXL, VMWGFX, and others, is seeing a new back-end allocation pool that can yield 3~5x faster page allocation performance for video memory...

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