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OpenPOWER Announces LibreBMC As POWER Open-Source BMC

Phoronix - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 21:26
The OpenPOWER Foundation today announced LibreBMC as a POWER-based, open-source BMC...

NVIDIA Adding Experimental Vulkan Support For Executing CUDA Binaries

Phoronix - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 19:10
Today's Vulkan 1.2.178 specification update notes a rather peculiar vendor extension in the works: VK_NVX_binary_import...

AMD Refactors MCE Driver Code, Prepares For Future While Finally Adding DF3/Rome Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 18:21
AMD has published a set of patches refactoring their MCE kernel driver, making various machine check architecture (MCA) address translation updates in preparing for "future systems" while at the same time finally introducing Data Fabric 3 support for EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors and newer...

Illumos Dropping SPARC, Allows For Newer Compiler + Eventual Use Of Rust In The Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 18:05
The Illumos project born out of the former Sun Microsystems OpenSolaris codebase has decided to end support for SPARC hardware...

Make Jenkins logs pretty

opensource.com - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 15:01

Jenkins is a free and open source automation server for building, testing, and deploying code. It's the backbone of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and can save developers hours each day and protect them from having failed code go live. When code does fail, or when a developer needs to see the output of tests, Jenkins provides log files for review.


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Getting started with edge development on Linux using open source

opensource.com - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 15:00

There are many reasons why Linux is such a popular platform for processing Internet of Things (IoT) edge applications. A major one is transparency. Linux security capabilities are built on open source projects, giving users a transparent view of security risks and threats and enables them to apply fixes quickly with security module patches or kernel-level updates. Another Linux advantage is that developers can choose from various programming languages to develop, test, and run device communications over various networking protocols—other than HTTP(s)—when developing IoT edge applications.


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Testssl.sh – Testing TLS/SSL Encryption Anywhere on Any Port

Tecmint - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 14:36
The post Testssl.sh – Testing TLS/SSL Encryption Anywhere on Any Port first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

testssl.sh is a free and open-source, feature-rich command-line tool used for checking TLS/SSL encryption enabled services for supported ciphers, protocols, and some cryptographic flaws, on Linux/BSD servers. It can be run on macOS X

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LFCA: Basic Security Tips to Protect Linux System – Part 17

Tecmint - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 12:26
The post LFCA: Basic Security Tips to Protect Linux System – Part 17 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Now more than ever, we are living in a world where organizations are constantly bombarded by security breaches motivated by the acquisition of highly sensitive and confidential data which is highly valuable and makes

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Linux 5.13-rc1 Released Following "A Fairly Big Merge Window"

Phoronix - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 06:09
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 5.13-rc1 as a Mother's Day kernel test release that also marks the closure of the merge window for the cycle...

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