Continuing in the series of posts about lesser-known bash features, here I take you through seven variables that bash makes available that you may not have known about.
Here are the major enhancements in this release, for more detail check out the change log.
- Enhanced remote data collection allowing for greater scale and more stability for remote instances.
- Improved UI for faster loading of pages for larger installations.
- Reduced polling times by adjusting the conditions where devices need to be re-indexed.
- New Graph Tree Site node to allow seeing graphs per site.
- New Installation Wizard allowing configuration of main and remote instances.
Thank you everyone who are using Cacti and especially those helping to make Cacti better!
Everyone at Mageia is very happy to get the first step towards Mageia 7 released! Mageia 7 beta 1 comes with lots of exciting changes and updates, and while a beta with lots of development work, it has been a nice release for a beta, not needing too many rounds of building to get workable images.
In 2010, we announced Steam Play: a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase. More than 3000 of the games that have been added to Steam after that point have included Linux support, with more titles being added every day. Since then, we've continued to look for ways to make more titles easily accessible to Linux users.
4MLinux is a lightweight Linux distribution that can turn your old computer into a functional one with multimedia support, maintenance tools and classic games.
Recently I wanted to deepen my understanding of bash by researching as much of it as possible. Because I felt bash is an often-used (and under-understood) technology, I ended up writing a book on it.
We know that using swap space instead of RAM can severely slow down the performance of Linux. So then, one might ask, since I have more than enough RAM available, wouldn't it better to remove swap space completely?
The short answer is, No. There are performance benefits when swap is enabled, even when you have more than enough RAM.
The new Firefox Quantum browser from Mozilla brough tons of new features and updates. It is now faster, lighter and more organized than ever it was before. However, with the new Firefox Quantum technologies which detached the older APIs used for complete themes and other add-ons, users were having a hard time customizing the browser's interface.
