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There's a famous sticker featured on many laptop lids; it goes something like this: "the 'cloud' is just somebody else's computer."

There's a lot of truth to that sentiment, but it's not exactly technically accurate. In fact, cloud computing isn't just somebody else's computer; it's somebody else's hundreds and thousands of computers.

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CrowdSec is a new security project designed to protect servers, services, containers, or virtual machines exposed on the internet with a server-side agent. It was inspired by Fail2Ban and aims to be a modernized, collaborative version of that intrusion-prevention framework.

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KDE Neon vs Kubuntu: What's the Difference Between?  It's FOSS

A Virtual Private Network is a technology solution used to provide privacy and security for inter-network connections. The most well-known case consists of people connecting to a remote server with traffic going through a

The post How to Install and Configure OpenVPN Server in CentOS 8/7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Fedora 33 will manage to ship on-time per its back-up target date of next week Tuesday...

For months now Intel's open-source Linux driver stack has been preparing for VRR support with Gen11/Gen12 graphics. We've seen user-space patches by Intel around VRR while now they are finally sending out their key Linux kernel driver patches with the i915 DRM code...

Intel Sends Linux Kernel Patches For VRR / Adaptive-Sync Enablement  Phoronix

FreeBSD gets experimental PowerPC little-endian support, can now be built on Linux and macOS  OS News

Microsoft Releases Edge Browser Preview for Linux Systems  Redmondmag.com

iSH Shell app lets you locally run a Linux shell environment on iPhone and iPad  9to5Mac

Open-source Linux PC Stuffs 4 Quadros Into Mid-Tower Case  Tom's Hardware

4 C programming courses for every skill level  Channel Asia Singapore

4 C programming courses for every skill level  Channel Asia Singapore

The Most Innovative ~$50 Graphics Card For Linux Users  Phoronix

This ~$50 USD graphics card is open-source friendly, can drive four display outputs simultaneously, passively cooled, and can fit in a PCI Express x1 slot. It's a unique card offering good value especially for those Linux users wanting open-source friendly hardware.

How to create a new user with admin privileges on Linux  TechRepublic

How to Download DaVinci Resolve 16 and install on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The crew at iXsystems this week not only released TrueNAS 12.0 as their convergence of TrueNAS and FreeNAS, but they have also put out an alpha build of TrueNAS SCALE as their new Linux-based offering...

Last week was the main set of ARM 64-bit architecture updates for Linux 5.10 while today a second batch of changes were sent in for this kernel. That first round had the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) and Pointer Authentication support among other improvements while this secondary pull has two notable performance optimizations...

Linux 5.10 ARM64 Has A "8~20x" Performance Optimization Forgotten About For Two Years  Phoronix