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How failure-driven development makes you successful

opensource.com - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 15:02

My job title is senior software engineer, but that's not what my closest co-workers call me. They call me "Cherrybomb" because of all the things I blow up. My regularly scheduled failures have been tracked down to our quarterly earnings and outage times. Literally, I am the production disaster you read about that says, "what not to do ever, in any case, at any time."


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5 ways to level up your Vim skills

opensource.com - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 15:01

Vim is one of the most popular text editors out there, so it is definitely worth taking time to learn how to use it. If the only things you learn how to do with the ubiquitous Vi(m) command-line text editor are to open a file, enter and edit some text, save the edited files, and exit the program, you will be much better off for it.

Circumstances where you will find it extremely convenient to know Vim nearly always involve tasks running remote shell operations. If you regularly use secure shell: 


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Share logs and files quickly from the command line with pastebinit

opensource.com - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 15:00

Pastebin.com and similar websites make it quick and easy to share snippets of code, data, or text. Pastebin sites are often used when filing bug reports because projects often request that lengthy files or log outputs are put into a separate site. Sharing (non-sensitive) data over a pastebin site is helpful for doing this type of troubleshooting or collaboration while keeping bug reports easy to read.


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How to Reset Forgotten Root Password in CentOS 8

Tecmint - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 14:22
It’s not uncommon for users to forget their root password. This happens especially if you haven’t logged in as the root user for long periods of time. In this brief guide, we will walk...

Linux 5.7 EFI Changes: "The GRUB Project Is Showing Signs Of Life Again"

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 13:53
Ingo Molnar on Monday began sending in his feature pull requests for the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window. Of the pull requests worth noting are the EFI changes...

Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 12:00
With the newly-minted Linux 5.6 kernel is initial support for USB4 based on Intel's Thunderbolt code while for Linux 5.7 is a wide variety of other USB changes...

FSINFO System Call, Mount Notifications Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Provide Better Storage Details

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 08:04
Red Hat's David Howells has sent in pull requests introducing the new fsinfo() system call and mount/superblock notifications and as part of that a general notification mechanism for the kernel...

Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 03:05
In the past using the Wayland-based GNOME Shell session and other Wayland compositors has generally resulted in a performance hit in going through (X)Wayland but that is much less so these days. Here are some initial benchmarks of Ubuntu 20.04 running various Steam Linux gaming benchmarks both under the default X.Org-based session and then again when using the Wayland session and its (X)Wayland support.

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