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New CAD to Mesh Conversion Solution Available on Windows and Linux platforms  ThomasNet News

Intel on Tuesday night released the "microcode-20210216" package as the latest update to their collection of CPU microcode binaries. This time around the only changes to the Intel CPU microcode binaries are for Skylake server CPUs and Cascade Lake B-0/B-1 processors in order to address two vulnerabilities that came to light last year...

Intel Releases Updated Microcode For Linux Users To Mitigate Xeon Security Issue  Phoronix

Samsung SF-650 all-in-one laser - won't print - Win 10 & 7 and Puppy Linux - External Hardware  BleepingComputer

Global Linux Operating System Market Detailed Survey and Outlook Report Shows How Top Companies Is Able to Survive in Future – FLA News  FLA News

LLVM 11.1.0 has been tagged as a special release to deal with ABI breakage on LLVM 11.0...

The pull request is pending that would allow Clang Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) to be enabled when building the Linux 5.12 kernel with this alternative compiler. The initial pull request has the compiler optimization work ready for the core infrastructure and 64-bit ARM (AArch64) while the x86_64 support isn't expected until the Linux 5.13 cycle...

Clang LTO PR Submitted For Linux 5.12, But x86_64 Support Not Included Yet  Phoronix

Fuchsia could natively run Android and Linux apps  XDA Developers

The post How to Install and Configure Hive with High Availability – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Hive is a Data Warehouse model in Hadoop Eco-System. It can perform as an ETL tool on top of Hadoop. Enabling High Availability (HA) on Hive is not similar as we do in Master

The post How to Install and Configure Hive with High Availability – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

People regularly ask me to help them rescue Windows computers that have become locked or damaged. Sometimes, I can use a Linux USB boot drive to mount Windows partitions and then transfer and back up files from the damaged systems.

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DARPA and the Linux Foundation Create Open Software Initiative to Accelerate US R&D Innovation, 5G End to End Stack  PRNewswire

Dynamic Preemption Support Sent In For The Linux 5.12 Kernel  Phoronix

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved plans for "Fedora Kinoite" as the newest spin to debut this autumn alongside Fedora 35...

In the first article in this series, I explained how the tech industry divides people and roles into "technical" or "non-technical" categories and the problems associated with this. The tech industry makes it difficult for people interested in tech—but not coding—to figure out where they fit in and what they can do.

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Engicam PX30.Core SoM & devkit run Ubuntu 20.04 with mainline Linux  CNX Software

Linux Software Market Investment Analysis | Google, LLC (United States), Microsoft (United States), Amazon (United States), IBM (United States)  NeighborWebSJ

Power Systems Security: More Than The Sum Of Its Parts  IT Jungle

Linux 5.12 Should Be Able To Boot As The Root Partition On Microsoft's Hypervisor  Phoronix

Last year was the interesting remarks by Microsoft that they want to "create a complete virtualization stack with Linux." The latest fruits of that are set to land with the Linux 5.12 kernel...