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Does the choice of enterprise Linux really matter anymore?  www.computing.co.uk

Does the choice of enterprise Linux really matter anymore?  www.computing.co.uk

New SecurStor microSD Cards Support ARM Raspbian Linux  ThomasNet News

Google backs effort to bring Rust to the Linux kernel  ZDNet

Security | Protect The Business - ...  Dark Reading

Global Linux Operating System Market Growth, Demand and Size analysis by Syndicate Market Research Methodology forecast 2021-2027  Los Hijos de la Malinche

OpenZFS 2.1 is nearing release as the next feature update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently supporting Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2021 Trending Technologies | Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo  Los Hijos de la Malinche

It should come as little surprise -- especially given the recent news of Google allowing Rust to be used for Android system-level code -- but engineers at the search giant are in support of Rust code being used within the mainline Linux kernel...

Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

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Java is one of the most popular programming languages and the JVM (Java’s virtual machine) is the run-time environment to run Java applications. These two platforms are required for much popular software that includes

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Linux Foundation sigstore finds ‘origins’ in software supply chains  ComputerWeekly.com

After the release cycle dragged on an extra month due to blocker bugs, LLVM 12 was officially tagged on Wednesday night as the latest half-year update to this open-source compiler stack...

As systems administrators know, there's a lot happening on modern computers. Applications run in the background, automated events wait to be triggered at a certain time, log files are written, status reports are delivered. Traditionally, these disparate processes have been managed and monitored with a collection of Unix tools to great effect and with great efficiency. However, modern computers are diverse, with local services running alongside containerized applications, easy access to clouds and the clusters they run on, real-time processes, and more data to process than ever.

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When the personal computer was young, a household was likely to have one (or fewer) computers in it. Children played games on it during the day, and parents did accounting or programming or roamed through a BBS in the evening. Imagine a one-computer household today, though, and you can predict the conflict it would create. Everyone would want to use the computer at the same time, and there wouldn't be enough keyboard and mouse to go around.

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Open Minds and Open Source: Linux Foundation LF Energy Introduces Two Initiatives Designed to Reduce Carbon and Shift to Sustainable Energy  IoT Evolution World

Hangover 0.6.5 Released For Running Windows Software On ARM64, POWER  Phoronix

A new release of Hangover is now available for getting Wine up and running with cross-architecture support so you can enjoy the likes of Windows games and applications under 64-bit ARM and IBM POWER hardware on Linux...

Most people tend to take name services for granted. They are necessary to convert human-readable names, such as www.example.com, into IP addresses, like 93.184.216.34. It is easier for humans to recognize and remember names than IP addresses, and name services allow us to use names, and they also convert them to IP addresses for us.

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This unikernel-based operating system is a faster, safer way to run Linux apps  Gadget Flow