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Samsung Releases exFAT-Utils To Format File-System, Fsck

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:48
With the new exFAT file-system merged for Linux 5.7, Samsung engineers responsible for this open-source native Linux kernel driver for Microsoft's exFAT file-system support have now issued their first official release of exfat-utils...

The Qt Company Provides A Brief Comment On Open-Source

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:19
Yesterday a KDE developer who serves on the board of the KDE Free Qt Foundation commented that The Qt Company is evaluating restricting new releases to paying customers for 12 months. That was said to be under consideration due to COVID19 / coronavirus impacting their finances and needing to boost short-term revenues. The Qt Company has now come out with an incredibly brief statement on the matter...

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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