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Company of Heroes 2 for macOS and Linux: Commanders update out now  Gamasutra

DATE: Monday, July22nd, 2019CONTACT: Mary Musgravemmusgrave@feralinteractive.comFeral Interactive today announced that Company of Heroestrade; 2, ...

Here's why Windows 10 users are switching to other platforms  Windows Report

A recent video dicusses various reason that why Windows 10 users should switch to linux. However, it seems like people are not yet ready to switch to anotehr ...

Feral Interactive has just announced they've brought the Commander Update DLC for Company of Heroes 2 over to Linux (and macOS) as well...

How to install kali linux - all the methods  HackWareNews.com

On VirtualBox, Dual Boot with Windows, On android, On Raspberry Pi, Single Boot on Mac Hardware, Dual Boot on Mac, HardwareOn Encrypted Disk InstallOn ...

Kernel 5.3-rc1 Released; VLC Security Flaw Discovered; Melissa Di Donato Appointed CEO of SUSE; Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS; and YugaByte Is Now 100% Open Source  Linux Journal

News briefs for July 22, 2019. Linux kernel 5.3-rc1 has been released. Linus Torvalds writes, "This is a pretty big release, judging by the commit count. Not the ...

Linux-driven Zynq UltraScale+ module ships with open-spec carrier board  LinuxGizmos.com

MYIR's “MYC-CZU3EG CPU Module” runs Linux on a quad -A53, FPGA-equipped Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC with 4GB of DDR4 and eMMC. There's also a ...

Forget Windows, Linux or MacOS: Try these alternative operating systems  TechRadar

Forget Windows, macOS, or even Linux – here's our pick of the best alternatives to the big three.

Forget Windows, Linux or MacOS: Try these alternative operating systems  TechRadar

Forget Windows, macOS, or even Linux – here's our pick of the best alternatives to the big three.

7-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks For July 2019, Including LTO'ed openSUSE Tumbleweed  Phoronix

As it's been a few weeks since last hosting any Linux distribution comparison and now with the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed enabling LTO by default, ...

As it's been a few weeks since last hosting any Linux distribution comparison and now with the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed enabling LTO by default, here are some fresh Linux distribution comparison results plus tossing the newly-released Debian 10.0 into the mix as well. This round of testing included Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 19.04, Fedora Workstation 30, openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Clear Linux 30450, and Debian 10.0.

Critical flaw in VLC Player affecs Linux, Windows and UNIX apps  The INQUIRER

GERMAN SECURITY AGENCY CERT-Bund has uncovered a critical flaw n VLC Media Player that could enable hackers to access and modify data on devices.

Oracle Linux on Btrfs for the Raspberry Pi  Linux Journal

Enterprise comes to the micro server. Oracle Linux 7 has been released for the Raspberry Pi 3. The release packages Btrfs as the root filesystem on the ...

The BFQ I/O scheduler is working out fairly well these days as shown in our benchmarks. The Budget Fair Queueing scheduler supports both throughput and low-latency modes while working particularly well for consumer-grade hardware. Should the Ubuntu desktop be using BFQ by default?..

GNOME developers continue to be hard at work on GTK4 and trying to ensure this major tool-kit update will be a great success...

When it comes to open-source processor ISAs, RISC-V currently captures much of the spotlight but OpenRISC continues chugging along as another open-source CPU architecture. The OpenRISC GCC compiler back-end and other software tooling also continues to move along for this architecture that's been in the works since 2000...

Everybody knows that sysadmins are impossibly busy people. Consequently, it sometimes seems they are superhuman. The sysadmin's dirty secret, the same one shared by many open source users, is that they don't actually do all of the work it looks like they've done. One of the greatest tools in the sysadmin's kit is their ability to reuse work someone else has already done for them.

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System administrators are critical to the reliable and successful operation of an organization and its network operations center and data center. A sysadmin must have expertise with the system's underlying platform (i.e., Windows, Linux) as well as be familiar with multiple areas including networking, backup, data restoration, IT security, database operations, middleware basics, load balancing, and more.

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Sysadmin Appreciation Day is coming up this Friday, July 26. To help honor sysadmins everywhere, we want you to share your best gift ideas. What would be the best way a team member or customer could show their appreciation for you? As a sysadmin, what was the best gift you've ever received? We asked our writers the same question, and here are their answers:

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Independent Linux kernel hacker Con Kolivas has released his newest "ck1" patch-set for the recently released Linux 5.2 kernel code-base. Complementing these kernel changes is his primary focus: the MuQSS scheduler that continues to aim for better interactivity and performance on mobile/desktop systems...

How to Extend Battery Life On Linux OS?  Toolbox

It is an interesting fact that there are fewer battery-saving applications for your Linux OS, but you do not even need apps for this purpose. There is another ...