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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....

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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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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Microsoft Adds Linux Perks to Windows 10, Talks 'Windows Hassles'  Redmond Channel Partner

BlackBerry researchers say China-affiliated groups have infiltrated Linux systems for years  IT World Canada

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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The Ceph open-source distributed storage platform is seeing some nice performance-related work to its kernel component in the Linux 5.7 kernel...

Ceph Sees Some Nice Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7  Phoronix

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

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...

Linux apps are finally coming to the Samsung Chromebook Pro  Chrome Unboxed

Google Chromebook vs. Gallium Chromebook  PocketNow

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

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.

Rugged, Linux-driven IoT gateways are optimized for sensor monitoring  LinuxGizmos.com

eBPF - Rethinking the Linux Kernel  InfoQ.com

Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer  The Verge

1. Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer  The Verge
2. Windows 10’s File Explorer Is Getting Linux Files (and Tux)  How-To Geek
3. Microsoft adds File Explorer integration to Windows Subsystem for Linux in new Windows 10 Fast Ring build  ZDNet
4. Windows 10 is testing WSL Linux integration in File Explorer  BleepingComputer
5. Windows 10 Insider build 19603 integrates Windows Subsystem for Linux with File Explorer  OnMSFT
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LOOPFS is the latest Linux kernel file-system proposal...