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Flipping burgers to flipping switches: A tech guy's journey

opensource.com - Sat, 05/01/2021 - 15:00

In my last week of high school in 1996, I quit my job at Carl's Jr. because I thought maybe without school, I'd have time to learn enough skills to get hired at a PC shop or something. I didn't know that I actually had incredibly marketable skills as a Linux sysadmin and C programmer, because I was the only tech person I'd ever known (except the people I chatted with on Undernet's #LinuxHelp channel).


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OpenBSD 6.9 Released In Beginning To Support Apple's M1 SoC

Phoronix - Sat, 05/01/2021 - 09:21
Following the recent FreeBSD 13.0 release and jumping ahead of the imminent DragonFlyBSD 6.0 release is now OpenBSD 6.9 to kick off May...

EXT4, XFS & exFAT Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Sat, 05/01/2021 - 08:18
In addition to the Btrfs changes, EXT4, exFAT, and XFS are among the file-systems seeing noteworthy improvements with the in-development Linux 5.13...

It's 2021 & The FSF Is Still Endorsing 802.11n WiFi Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 05/01/2021 - 01:39
As the first announcement of a newly-certified product by the Free Software Foundation since early 2020 as "Respect Your Freedom" compliant, the FSF is backing another 802.11n WiFi adapter...

NVIDIA RTX 30 Series vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For April 2021

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 23:34
With recently receiving the rest of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" line-up we had no access to previously for testing, the past few weeks were busy with testing/re-testing these new graphics cards as well as prior GeForce RTX 20 series hardware and relevant AMD Radeon graphics cards for offering a current look at the 1440p and 4K Linux gaming performance.

Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Jumps From v0.14.1 To v15.0 To Signify Its Maturity, Stabilizing

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 20:19
The Rust-written Cloud-Hypervisor project led by open-source Intel engineers as a VMM designed for cloud workloads has broke well past the "1.0" milestone. Following a series of 0.x releases, Cloud-Hypervisor 15 was released this week...

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