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Pandemic stress test: The open source cloud is up to the challenge

opensource.com - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 15:00

We all know that modern business has become a rapid-response environment. Never before have we had the number of IT resources at the tips of our fingers as we have today, and most of them are enabled by the cloud. When we refer to "the cloud", we may be talking about several computing concepts, but typically the cloud consists of a set of remotely-hosted resources and services, from web pages to mobile apps or even traditional desktop applications.


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How to Install LAMP Stack with PhpMyAdmin in Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 14:05
LAMP stack is the combination of the most frequently used software packages to build dynamic websites. LAMP is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each of the packages included in it: Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and...

Fedora 33 Looks To Up Its Code Hardening For 64-Bit Arm Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 12:08
Fedora has been improving its 64-bit ARM (AArch64) support for quite some time and with this autumn's Fedora 33 release it should be in even better shape...

Awards roll call: March 2020 to May 2020

Red Hat News - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 12:00

Summer is just around the corner and Red Hat is adding more awards to our roster! We are proud to announce that several Red Hatters and Red Hat products are being recognized by leading industry publications and organizations for efforts in driving innovation. 

NVIDIA Engineer Revives Work On Linux Proactive Memory Compaction

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 06:11
One of the interesting patch series initially published back in 2019 by NVIDIA engineer Nitin Gupta was on proactive memory compaction for the Linux kernel while so far in 2020 it hasn't yet been merged but a fifth revision to the work was published today...

Xeon Gold 6250 vs. EPYC 7F32 - 8-Core Server CPU Performance On Ubuntu 20.04

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 01:00
Launched last month were the AMD EPYC 7Fx2 CPUs as new high frequency SKUs and with larger L3 cache sizes. Following our initial EPYC 7F52 benchmarking we moved on to testing the EPYC 7F32 and today are putting it head-to-head against the Xeon Gold 6250 and other EPYC/Xeon SKUs while running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

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