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Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 15:40
The RISC-V architecture changes have been submitted for the Linux 5.7 kernel and includes early work on bringing up a new RISC-V dual-core SoC...

How to Setup Redis For High Availability with Sentinel in CentOS 8 – Part 2

Tecmint - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 15:20
Redis provides high availability via Redis Sentinel distributed system. Sentinel helps to monitor Redis instances, detect failures and will do roles switches automatically thus enabling a Redis deployment to resist any kind of failures....

Print double-sided documents at home with this simple Bash script

opensource.com - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 15:03

We have a laser printer at home. This Hewlett Packard LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer is an older model, but it has been a great workhorse that prints reliably and in color. I put it on our home network a few years ago using our Raspberry Pi as a print server.


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How to set up a remote school environment for kids with Linux

opensource.com - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 15:02

COVID-19 has suddenly thrown all of us into a new and challenging situation. Many of us are now working full-time from home, and for a lot of us (especially people who aren't used to working remotely), this is taking some getting used to.


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Use Emacs Org mode to easily create LaTeX documents

opensource.com - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 15:00

LaTeX is a powerful system, especially for writing scientific and technical documents. But writing documents in LaTeX can be confusing because you need to know a lot of commands, and your text is littered with backslashes, curly braces, and other syntax distractions. But being productive as a writer requires that you focus on the text's content instead of how it looks. Fortunately, the GNU Emacs Org mode extension makes it easy to write plain-text documents and seamlessly export them to LaTeX and PDF.


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Ceph Sees Some Nice Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 13:51
The Ceph open-source distributed storage platform is seeing some nice performance-related work to its kernel component in the Linux 5.7 kernel...

Red Hat and Perficient: Day 2 Operations with OpenShift 4 MachineSets

Red Hat News - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 12:00

This is a guest post, contributed by Dave Ellis, Technical Architect at Perficient.

Intel Media Linux Driver Q1-2020 Released With Tiger Lake Features, Better VP9 Encode

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 12:00
Intel's open-source multimedia crew has released their Media Driver Q1'2020 build for Linux users. This Intel Media driver is what provides Video Acceleration API (VA-API) capabilities for Intel GPU-based video encode/decode for Broadwell through next-gen Tiger Lake...

X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator With Vulkan Performing Very Well On Linux - NVIDIA/AMD OpenGL vs. Vulkan Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 07:37
Last week the X-Plane 11.50 beta was released with its long awaited Vulkan renderer to complement its mature OpenGL rendering code. Since then we've been busy benchmarking with 23 different graphics cards of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce line-ups while running Ubuntu Linux and comparing the OpenGL vs. Vulkan rendering performance for this realistic flight simulator.

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