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Canonical Fixes Linux 4.15 Kernel Regression in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS - Softpedia News

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 23:57
Canonical Fixes Linux 4.15 Kernel Regression in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS  Softpedia News

Earlier this month, Canonical published major Linux kernel security updates for all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, addressing no less than 28 ...

Save 13% off this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle - Neowin

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 23:46
Save 13% off this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle  Neowin

Today's highlighted deal comes via our Gear + Gadgets section of the Neowin Deals store, where for only a limited time you can save 13% off the VoCore2 Mini ...

Save 13% off this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle - Neowin

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 23:46
Save 13% off this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle  Neowin

Today's highlighted deal comes via our Gear + Gadgets section of the Neowin Deals store, where for only a limited time you can save 13% off the VoCore2 Mini ...

Concurrent Real-Time Introduces RedHawk KVM-RT - Yahoo Finance

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 23:00
Concurrent Real-Time Introduces RedHawk KVM-RT  Yahoo Finance

RedHawk Linux together with the KVM hypervisor offers guaranteed real-time performance in virtual environments POMPANO BEACH, Fla. , Sept. 11, 2019 ...

Chrome 77 Released With Serial API, WebVR 1.1 & Any Element Can Provide Form Data

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 22:40
Google has rolled out Chrome 77 into their stable channel as the newest version of their lightning fast web browser for Linux...

AMD "Trusted Memory Zone" Encrypted vRAM Support Coming To Their Linux GPU Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 21:39
AMD Trusted Memory Zone support is a new feature being worked on for their open-source graphics driver that works in conjunction with the graphics hardware for being able to encrypt portions of the video memory...

AMD "Trusted Memory Zone" Encrypted vRAM Support Coming To Their Linux GPU Driver - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 21:39
AMD "Trusted Memory Zone" Encrypted vRAM Support Coming To Their Linux GPU Driver  Phoronix

AMD Trusted Memory Zone support is a new feature being worked on for their open-source graphics driver that works in conjunction with the graphics hardware ...

Arm Joins The Compute Express Link Bandwagon (CXL)

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 21:19
Arm has now joined Intel, HP Enterprise, Google, Microsoft, Dell EMC, and others in backing the new Compute Express Link (CXL) effort as the interconnect for future accelerators...

Acer Begins Publishing UEFI Firmware Updates For Linux Users On LVFS For Fwupd - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 21:09
Acer Begins Publishing UEFI Firmware Updates For Linux Users On LVFS For Fwupd  Phoronix

Following a lengthy evaluation period, Acer is the latest hardware manufacturer offering firmware updates for their products via the Linux Vendor Firmware ...

Acer Begins Publishing UEFI Firmware Updates For Linux Users On LVFS For Fwupd

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 21:09
Following a lengthy evaluation period, Acer is the latest hardware manufacturer offering firmware updates for their products via the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easily applying these updates from the Linux desktop with Fwupd...

GNOME 3.36 Pegged For Release On 11 March, More Stable Point Releases Come To GNOME

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 21:02
With the big GNOME 3.34 release coming out this week, the GNOME 3.36 release schedule has now been published...

How Intel's Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 19:48
Intel engineer Feng Tang spoke at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on how the Clear Linux team managed to boot their kernel faster. They started out with around a three second kernel boot time but cut it down to just 300 ms...

How Intel's Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 19:48
How Intel's Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms  Phoronix

Intel engineer Feng Tang spoke at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on how the Clear Linux team managed to boot their kernel faster.

Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that's a good thing) - Ars Technica

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 19:40
Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that's a good thing)  Ars Technica

If you skipped the last release, Debian 10 (Buster) should encourage an update into 2019.

Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good thing) - Ars Technica

Google News - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 19:40
Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good thing)  Ars Technica

The Debian project, the upstream mother of countless Linux distributions, has released Debian 10, also known as "Buster." And yes, that's a reference to the ...

F2FS Will Have Faster Case-Insensitive Lookups With Linux 5.4

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 19:28
The EXT4 case-insensitive lookup optimization added to the file-system with the current Linux 5.3 cycle has been ported to the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) for the upcoming Linux 5.4...

MoltenVK Continues Improving The Vulkan Experience On macOS/iOS

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 18:53
A new release of MoltenVK is now available that is updated against Vulkan 1.1.121 for allowing much of this graphics/compute API to function under Apple's macOS and iOS platforms by remapping the Vulkan calls to Metal...

10 Ansible modules you need to know

opensource.com - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 15:02

Ansible is an open source IT configuration management and automation platform. It uses human-readable YAML templates so users can program repetitive tasks to happen automatically without having to learn an advanced programming language.

Ansible is agentless, which means the nodes it manages do not require any software to be installed on them. This eliminates potential security vulnerabilities and makes overall management smoother.


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How Linux came to the mainframe

opensource.com - Wed, 09/11/2019 - 15:01

Despite my 15 years of experience in the Linux infrastructure space, if you had asked me a year ago what a mainframe was, I'd be hard-pressed to give a satisfying technical answer. I was surprised to learn that the entire time I'd been toiling away on x86 machines in various systems administration roles, Linux was running on the s390x architecture for mainframes. In fact, 2019 marks 20 years of IBM's involvement in Linux on the mainframe, with purely community efforts predating that by a year.


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