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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...

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