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Indian politicians are missing a huge edutech leap by ignoring Raspberry Pi and Linux  International Business Times, India

Students in India are missing out on the ongoing coding revolution because the political class is not paying enough attention to Raspberry Pi and Linux.

Indian politicians are missing a huge edutech leap by ignoring Raspberry Pi and Linux  International Business Times, India

Students in India are missing out on the ongoing coding revolution because the political class is not paying enough attention to Raspberry Pi and Linux.

Indian politicians are missing a huge edutech leap by ignoring Raspberry Pi and Linux  International Business Times, India

Students in India are missing out on the ongoing coding revolution because the political class is not paying enough attention to Raspberry Pi and Linux.

Data in a Flash, Part IV: the Future of Memory Technologies  Linux Journal

I have spent the first three parts of this series describing the evolution and current state of Flash storage. I also described how to configure an NVMe over Fabric ...

Oracle Linux hits 8.0, with a hint of deja vu...  DevClass

Big Red has unleashed Oracle Linux version 8, which could the OS of choice for those using the database giant's cloud or appliances – or who just can't bear to ...

Wayland's Weston compositor for the past year has provided a remoting plug-in for virtual output streaming that was built atop RTP/GStreamer. Now though a new plug-in has landed in the Weston code-base making use of Red Hat's promising PipeWire project...

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat shipped the much anticipated release candidate today for libinput 1.14, the open-source input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland systems...

If your data center depends on VirtualBox and your virtual machines depend on the USB device, you’ve perhaps noticed that USB doesn’t support by default unless you’ve manually enabled it. In this article, we...

Installing five flavours of Linux on my new laptop  ZDNet

I got a very nice new laptop at a very good price, so I wiped Windows and installed Linux on it.

Canonical's server team is working on a new means of carrying out automated installations of Ubuntu Server in time for their 20.04 LTS release...

Fedora announces the first preview release of Fedora CoreOS as an automatically updating Linux OS for containerized workloads  Packt Hub

Three days ago, Fedora announced the first preview release of the open-source project Fedora CoreOS as a secure and reliable host for computer clusters.

In-step with more RISC-V hardware becoming available over time, the Linux kernel architecture support for RISC-V has continued maturing and with Linux 5.3 is in better shape...

While the Linux 5.3 kernel merge window isn't even over until this weekend when it will kick off with 5.3-rc1 and headlining new features like Radeon RX 5700 series support, AMD has already sent in a batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD fixes. Making these fixes notable are some early fixes around the new open-source Radeon RX "Navi" support...

CPU vulnerability mitigations keeping Linux devs busy: SUSE's Pavlík  iTWire

A veteran Linux kernel developer at Germany-based SUSE says the one thing that keeps him and his team busy these days is CPU vulnerability mitigations...

Following EXT4 getting initial (and opt-in) support for case-insensitive directories/files, the Flash-Friendly File-System has a set of patches pending that extend the case-folding support to this F2FS file-system that is becoming increasingly used by Android smartphones and other devices...

Big Blue’s Red Hat Brings A Big Change Of Heart  The Next Platform

Perhaps, many years hence, we will call the company that, more than any other, created the enterprise computing environment Big Purple now that it has.

In addition to Linux 5.3 bringing a VirtIO-IOMMU driver, this next kernel version is bringing another new VirtIO virtual device implementation: PMEM for para-virtualized persistent memory support for the likes of Intel Optane DC persistent memory...

SAP Contributes UI5 Web Component to Open Source community  Linux.com

SAP has deepened its commitment to the developer and open source community with the contribution of UI5 Web Components, a comprehensive library for Web ...

SAP has deepened its commitment to the developer and open source community with the contribution of UI5 Web Components, a comprehensive library for Web developers. The new UI5 Web Components from SAP allow developers to take advantage of the features offered by OpenUI5 while using other frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.js. This library enables web developers to create enterprise-grade Web applications more easily.