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Given the wide range of hardware running Linux and especially Linux being dominant in the data center, the networking changes each kernel cycle remain quite vibrant. Linux 5.16 is no exception with the main feature pull sent in on Monday for all the networking updates...

Linux 5.16 Networking Changes Are Quite Busy From New Drivers To Intel 100G Improvements  Phoronix

Need help on UNIX - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Nokia deploys SR Linux and data center switches for everyWAN for service expansion and capacity  Marketscreener.com

Nokia deploys SR Linux and data center switches for everyWAN for service expansion and capacity  marketscreener.com

Linux 5.15 LTS release – Main Changes, Arm, RISC-V and MIPS architectures  CNX Software

Linux is useful to photographers and graphic artists. It provides many tools for editing different types of image files and formats, including photographs. This roundup shows that you do not even need a graphical interface to work with your photos. Here are four ways that you can edit images at the command line.

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Linux kernel 5.15 is available, and it has something special for NTFS users  TechRepublic

Linux Foundation to promote dataset sharing and software dev techniques  VentureBeat

Linux 5.15 just arrived - and here's what's inside  ZDNet

Google just tripled its bounty for Linux kernel bugs. Here's why  ZDNet

SQL Server on Linux: Canonical offers official support, AWS Babelfish helps users move to Postgres  The Register

Linux 101: What tech pros need to know  TechRepublic

While Ampere Altra and Altra Max processors are achieving great success using Arm Neoverse N1 based cores, as shared earlier this year Ampere has begun designing their own custom Arm server CPU cores for slated introduction in 2022. The first GCC compiler patch for that next-gen Ampere CPU was quietly posted on Monday...

Python is a popular language for many applications. Those that run as backend services, now in the 2020s, are often run inside containers. For that to work, though, you have to build a container.

Often, with microservice architectures, it makes sense to build a "root" base image, which all of your services get built on. Most of this article focuses on that base image since this is where it is easiest to make mistakes. However, I also cover the applications themselves because a good base without good applications isn't of much use.

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Hive ransomware group extends to cloud-based Linux variants  SC Magazine

Hive ransomware group extends to cloud-based Linux variants  SC Magazine

Red Hat and Intel are collaborating to bring Industry 4.0 transformation to smart manufacturing and energy. See how using open hybrid cloud technologies with intelligent edge solutions can extend the possibilities of IoT use cases.

Intel AMX Support Lands For Linux 5.16  Phoronix

After going through a number of rounds of patch revisions over the past year, Intel's kernel-side changes for supporting Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) with next-gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors has landed for Linux 5.16!..