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When I test software on Linux (a regular part of my job), I need to use multiple servers with various architectures running Linux. I provision the machines, install the required software packages, run my tests, gather the results, and return the machine to the pool so that others can use it for their tests.

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What if you could have a tiny text editor with different modes to emulate your choice of Emacs, Vi, Pico, NEdit, and even WordStar? Amazingly, such an editor already exists, and it’s called e3. It has no library dependencies, and its binary is less than 20KB.

Installing

On Linux or BSD, you can install e3 from your distribution’s software repository or ports tree.

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Red Hat unveils common Kubernetes platform for Windows and Linux  IT PRO

7 Linux commands to help you with disk management  TechRepublic

Containerization has radically changed the IT landscape because of the significant value and wide array of benefits it brings to business. Nearly any recent business innovation has containerization as a contributing factor, if not the central element.

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MariaDB is an open-source, community-developed relational database management system. It is forked from MySQL and created and maintained by the developers who created MySQL. MariaDB is intended to be highly compatible with MySQL but

The post How to Install MariaDB on CentOS 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Hadoop has two core components which are HDFS and YARN. HDFS is for storing the Data, YARN is for processing the Data. HDFS is Hadoop Distributed File System, it has Namenode as Master Service

The post How to Set Up High Availability for Namenode - Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The latest Vulkan extension now supported by Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is support for the new VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate...

NuTyX 20.12.0 Linux Distro Released With Three Initialization System  Fossbytes

Linux 5.10 LTS release – Main changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V architectures  CNX Software

Radicle: An Open-Source Decentralized App for Code Collaboration [P2P GitHub Alternative]  It's FOSS

Community Concerns Prompt Red Hat to Drop CentOS for CentOS Stream  ITPro Today

The Linux kernel this year has seen new safeguards and efforts aiming to have user-space reduce their arbitrary poking of CPU machine specific registers (MSRs) in the name of security and other handling concerns. That effort has continued on with the Linux 5.11 cycle...

Linux Continues Crackdown On User-Space Poking CPU MSRs  Phoronix

CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollars a year into CentOS clone  ZDNet

The initial test release of Git 2.30 is now available for evaluation of this distributed revision control system...

Ultra-compact Apollo Lake net appliance has mini-PCIe and M.2 too  LinuxGizmos.com

It was just yesterday evening -- less than 24 hours ago -- that Linux 5.10 LTS was released but already the first point release has arrived due to bugs in the storage code...

Linux 5.10 Didn't Even Last 24 Hours... Linux 5.10.1 Released Due To Bugs  Phoronix

The first set of major file-system material submitted for the newly opened Linux 5.11 merge window are the Btrfs updates...