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The best Linux laptop  Hartford Courant

The best Linux laptop  Chicago Tribune

The best Linux laptop  Chicago Tribune

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  Techworld Australia

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  Techworld Australia

Meet The Linux Desktop That Wants To Be An Ideal Upgrade For Windows 7 Users  Forbes

While more Linux distributions have begun packaging (and in the case of Fedora, potentially deploying by default) EarlyOOM as the out-of-memory monitoring daemon for trying to improve the Linux desktop's handling of low memory situations, systemd ultimately should be picking up its own out-of-memory daemon in the months ahead...

Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD  Phoronix

Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD  Phoronix

The recent work by longtime kernel developer Andy Lutomirski on improving Linux's random APIs and introducing a new "GRND_INSECURE" option is now queued into the random dev queue ahead of the Linux 5.6 cycle...

Linux 5.6 Seeing Random Changes, New "Insecure" Option With GRND_INSECURE  Phoronix

Linux 5.6 Seeing Random Changes, New "Insecure" Option With GRND_INSECURE  Phoronix

FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a standard network protocol that was ones generally used for transferring files between a client and server, now it has been replaced by more secure and faster...

At the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas there isn't too often "pure" Linux being showcased aside from the likes of Ubuntu occasionally running on demo machines or servers, the year Canonical was there with Ubuntu TV, and a number of other select mostly small instances where Linux is prominently featured. That's in part why I stopped regularly attending CES (as well as budgetary constraints due to ad-blockers...) but this year at CES there is a large floor showcase of the Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux...

Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020  Phoronix

For many years, monolithic applications were the standard enterprise architecture for achieving business requirements. But that changed significantly once cloud infrastructure began treating business acceleration at scale and speed.

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Following Fedora's plans to begin using EarlyOOM by default and other recent upstream discussions about Linux's relatively poor performance when it comes to the Linux desktop not handling memory pressure / low RAM situations well, Intel's Clear Linux looks like it will soon offer EarlyOOM as an option...

Clear Linux Set To Begin Offering EarlyOOM For Better Dealing With Memory Pressure  Phoronix

In my work as a programming language researcher, I need to create artifacts that are easy to understand and well-documented. To make my work easier, I found a simple way to automate generating source code documentation, creating HTML and PDF versions of user documentation, compiling a technical (research) document to PDF, generating the bibliography, and provisioning of virtual machines with the software artefact installed for ease of reproducibility of my research.

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CPU steal time is defined in the GNU top command as "time stolen from [a] VM by the hypervisor." CPU steal time occurs when a hypervisor process and a guest instance are trying to utilize the same hypervisor physical core (pCPU) at the same time. This results in less processor time available to the guest's virtual CPU (vCPU) and performance degradation for the guest.

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