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LLVM Clang 12 Adds Support For Vectorization Using Glibc's Vector Math Library

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 18:49
Upstream LLVM/Clang now supports making use of the vector math library found within the GNU C Library...

Laptop Touchpad Improvements, New Joystick Driver For Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 18:29
The Linux 5.10 merge window is closing this weekend but there still is new code landing for this last complete kernel series of 2020...

How to Configure Network Static IP Address on RHEL/CentOS 8/7

Tecmint - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 16:10

The scope of this tutorial is to explain how we can edit and make changes to Network Configurations on RHEL/CentOS 8/7 from the command line only, and, more specifically how we can set up

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Ubuntu 21.04 Installer Might Allow EXT4 Encryption Without LVM

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 15:23
Ubuntu for many years has allowed EXT4 file-system encryption when making use of LVM management but for Ubuntu 21.04 it's looking to offer the file-system encryption without having to go through LVM...

Why it's important to keep the cloud open

opensource.com - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 15:00

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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New open source project crowdsources internet security

opensource.com - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 15:00

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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How to Install and Configure OpenVPN Server in CentOS 8/7

Tecmint - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 13:31

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

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