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Blacks In Technology and The Linux Foundation Partner to Offer up to $100000 in Training & Certification to Deserving Individuals  PRNewswire

JingOS Linux release this month, looks a lot like iPadOS  SlashGear

JingOS Linux release this month, looks a lot like iPadOS  SlashGear

Back in 2019 support was added to GNOME 3.34 to allow starting XWayland on-demand. With this opt-in feature, XWayland support would only be started up when needed (on-demand) for running X11 clients. That support has now matured enough where for the upcoming GNOME 40 it will be enabled by default...

AWS wants to tempt customers into switching to Linux  TechRadar

Dnsmasq vulnerabilities open networking devices, Linux distros to DNS cache poisoning  Help Net Security

With Linux 5.11 came Pioneer DDJ-RR DJ controller support while for Linux 5.12 additional Pioneer DJ equipment will be supported...

Pioneer DJM-750 DJ Mixer Handling For Linux Is En Route  Phoronix

Pioneer DJM-750 DJ Mixer Handling For Linux Is En Route  Phoronix

Flaws in widely used dnsmasq software leave millions of Linux-based devices exposed  CSO Online

How to install Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

New FreakOut botnet targets Linux systems running unpatched software  ZDNet

The eBPF in-kernel virtual machine that allows for handling sandboxed "programs" within the Linux kernel continues on its stellar upward trajectory...

Linux 5.12 To Add Atomics Support To The Promising eBPF  Phoronix

Linux Sys Admin - Bath  Gi Media

Complete software solution now available for Linux on ARM  Electropages

How to install Couchpotato on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Linux Foundation, Blacks in Technology Announce New Scholarships  TechDecisions

Virtualization is one of the most used technologies. Fedora Linux uses Cloud Base images to create general-purpose virtual machines (VM), but there are many ways to set up Cloud Base images. Recently, the virt-install command-line tool for provisioning VMs added support for cloud-init, so it can now be used to configure and run a cloud image locally.

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Big data’s one of many domains where open source shines. From open source alternatives for Google Analytics to new features in MySQL, 2020 brought several ways for open source enthusiasts to learn big data skills.

Get up to speed on how open source data science languages, libraries, and tools help us understand our world better by reviewing the top 10 data science articles published on Opensource.com last year. 

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