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4 ways open source gives you a competitive edge

opensource.com - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 15:01

Building a tech stack is a major decision for every organization. While picking the right tools will set your team up for success, picking the wrong solutions or platforms can have devastating effects on productivity and profitability. To succeed in today's fast-paced world, organizations must make smart investments in digital solutions that enable them to move faster and increase operational agility.


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Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 15:00
The ability to randomize the kernel stack offset at each system call looks like it will land for the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle. This optional feature makes it much more difficult to carry out stack-based attacks on the Linux kernel...

To be an open leader, listen to your heart

opensource.com - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 15:00

Allowing talented leadership to excel in a more open organizational structure can determine a young company's success. But in order to transform into a more open organization, you'll need to provide that space for talented leaders to grow.

This doesn't always come easy to leaders. Ultimately, however, the only way to do it is to begin with yourself—and to address the issue not only your head but also your heart, your feelings.


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LFCA: Learn Basics of Network IP Addressing – Part 9

Tecmint - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 12:41
The post LFCA: Learn Basics of Network IP Addressing – Part 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In our previous chapter of the LFCA series, we defined a computer network and briefly brushed over some of the general Linux networking commands that you can use to retrieve useful network information such

The post LFCA: Learn Basics of Network IP Addressing – Part 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD ROCm 4.1.1 Released To Clarify Some HIP Bits

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 12:00
Toward the end of March was the AMD ROCm 4.1 release with a few new features. Released today is ROCm 4.1.1 with seemingly no real code changes but just to clarify two items around ROCm's HIP...

Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 06:38
It was just a few days ago was the talking of the VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver looking to be upstreamed into Mesa and now this Google "Venus" project has indeed landed...

Initial Apple M1 SoC Support Aims For Linux 5.13 Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 01:08
While the independent effort to get the Apple M1 ARM-based SoC working under Linux has just been happening for a few months, with the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle the very preliminary support for Apple's M1 and initial M1-powered devices looks to land...

Xen 4.15 Hypervisor Brings Live Updates To Xenstored

Phoronix - Fri, 04/09/2021 - 00:55
Out today is version 4.15 of the open-source Xen hypervisor. The focus of Xen 4.15 is on "broader accessibility, performance and security" with a number of noteworthy additions...

GnuPG 2.3 Released With New Experimental Key Database Daemon, TPM 2.0 Daemon

Phoronix - Thu, 04/08/2021 - 22:55
Werner Koch announced the availability today of GnuPG 2.3 as the start of the (fairly stable, effectively production ready) test releases leading up to the GnuPG 2.4 stable update...

GCC 10.3 Compiler Released With AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported, Nearly 200 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/08/2021 - 21:39
GCC 10.3 is out today as the latest stable release of the GNU Compiler Collection, weeks ahead of the GCC 11.1 feature release as the first stable version of GCC 11...

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