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Install a Kubernetes load balancer on your Raspberry Pi homelab with MetalLB

opensource.com - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 15:02

Kubernetes is designed to integrate with major cloud providers' load balancers to provide public IP addresses and direct traffic into a cluster. Some professional network equipment manufacturers also offer controllers to integrate their physical load-balancing products into Kubernetes installations in private data centers. For an enthusiast running a Kubernetes cluster at home, however, neither of these solutions is very helpful.


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Back up your phone's storage with this Linux utility

opensource.com - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 15:01

One of the great failings of mobile devices is how difficult it can be to transfer data from your device to your computer. Mobile devices have a long history of this. Early mobiles, like Pilot and Handspring PDA devices, required special synchronization software (which you had to do religiously for fear of your device running out of batteries and losing all of your data forever). Old iPods required a platform-specific interface. Modern mobile devices default to sending your data to an online account so you can download it again on your computer.


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How to install Java on Mac

opensource.com - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 15:00

In late May, Java celebrated its 25th anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion, developers around the world used the hashtag #MovedByJava to share their achievements, memories, and insights with the programming language.


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How To Install Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana”

Tecmint - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:49
Linux Mint 20, code-named “Ulyana” is a long term support (LTS) release which will be supported until 2025. It comes in three desktop editions: Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. To learn more about Linux Mint...

Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:00
Aside from the H1'2020 open-source/Linux highlights, here is our look at the top stories for June 2020 on Phoronix with many interesting software and hardware topics...

AMD/ROCm "AOMP" Compiler Enables OpenMP 5.0 By Default, Preps For More Upstreaming

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 07:30
AOMP 11.6-2 is out this evening as the final Radeon Open Compute update for H1'2020. This is AMD's LLVM Clang downstream focused on providing OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

Intel Unveils New "KMB" DRM Driver For Their New SoC With An ARM CPU + Movidius VPU

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 05:46
Intel has introduced a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver for Linux...

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