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In 2017, the KubeVirt team launched the project to manage virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers in Kubernetes. The open source project's intent was to make VMs first-class citizens in this environment.

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Service mesh and serverless deployment models represent the next phase in the evolution of microservice architectures. Service mesh enables developers to focus on business feature development rather than managing non-functional microservices capabilities such as monitoring, tracing, fault tolerance, and service discovery.

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Checking Linux system performance using sar  Floridanewstimes.com

The FreeDOS website says that most people use FreeDOS for three main tasks:

1. Playing classic DOS games
2. Running legacy DOS software
3. Running an embedded system

But what does it mean to run an "embedded" system?

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The GNU C Library (Glibc) saw another batch of Year 2038 "Y2038" preparations on Tuesday for the Unix timestamp for when the time since 1 January 1970 can no longer be stored in a signed 32-bit integer...

Open source UChecker tool detects vulnerable libraries on Linux servers - Help Net Security  Help Net Security

Download Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 20.2 'Uma' Beta with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce  BetaNews

The first release candidate of systemd 249 is now available for testing with yet more new and improved features...

UChecker tool from CloudLinux scans Linux servers | SC Media  SC Magazine

Alpine Linux 3.14 Released With Many Package Updates For This Lightweight Distro  Phoronix

Alpine Linux 3.14 Released With Many Package Updates For This Lightweight Distro  Phoronix

A new version of Alpine Linux is now available for this distribution that's popular for container use and other environments requiring a small footprint or those simply preferring its Busybox + Musl libc usage...

Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now  The Register

Intel's "Gen12" Xe Graphics should be performing marginally better with next quarter's Mesa 21.2 feature release for its open-source ANV Vulkan driver...

Intel Xe Graphics Squeeze Out More Linux Performance By Flushing Less  Phoronix

Similar to Portal 2 getting Vulkan rendering support earlier this year by leveraging DXVK to convert Direct3D calls to Vulkan, Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 has now received similar treatment alongside a big update out today...

Linux gods at last turn their gaze to Pi 400: Computer-in-a-keyboard receives mainline kernel support with v5.14  The Register

Crowdfunding for the JingPad A1 Linux tablet begins  Liliputing

A new release of DXVK is available for running Direct3D 9/10/11 games over the Vulkan API that is most notably used by Steam Play (Proton) for allowing many Windows games to run gracefully on Linux...