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WirePlumber Ready For The Linux Desktop As Replacement To PipeWire's Session Manager

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 23:02
Announced earlier this year was WirePlumber as a new session manager for PipeWire with its role in managing of audio/video streams to/from hardware/software components as well as handling security/permissions, device monitoring, and other session management functionality...

QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 19:54
QEMU 5.1-rc0 is available as the first step towards this next feature release of this important component to the Linux virtualization stack...

Intel Gen12 Graphics Bring EU Fusion - EUs Fused In Pairs

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 19:01
While we remain eager to find out more about (and benchmark) Intel Gen12 graphics in Tiger Lake and Xe discrete graphics with this generation bringing the biggest changes to the ISA since i965, Linux patches and bug reports do continue offering new tid-bits of information on Gen12...

"Navy Flounder" Is The Newest AMD Navi 2 GPU Being Added To The Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 18:10
In addition to the "Sienna Cichlid" support recently published for the open-source AMD Radeon Linux kernel graphics driver, there is another new graphics processor being added to their driver: Navy Flounder...

How to Restrict Network Access Using FirewallD

Tecmint - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 17:14
As a Linux user, you can opt either to allow or restrict network access to some services or IP addresses using the firewalld firewall which is native to CentOS/RHEL 8 and most RHEL based

Use this cheat sheet for tmux as a terminal multiplexer

opensource.com - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 15:03

Whether you're starting up an elaborate Raspberry Pi homelab or you're managing a building full of workstations, sometimes you need to do the same task on multiple hosts. There are many ways to automate tasks across systems. Ansible, for instance, ensures all systems are in the same state, and sometimes a simple cron job will do.


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Explaining Kubernetes in 10 minutes using an analogy

opensource.com - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 15:02

The concepts behind the Kubernetes container orchestration system can be hard to understand. I created a simple analogy about renting out rooms in a house to help you learn how Kubernetes works.

How to rent rooms in your house

Imagine you own a house with 10 rooms. You want to rent out three of the rooms through an online accommodation service. You have two choices: you can post ads and manage everything yourself, or you can hire someone to do it for you.


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