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The AMD ROCm developer tool engineers have released a new build of AOMP, their LLVM Clang compiler downstream that adds OpenMP support for Radeon GPU offloading until that support ultimately makes it back upstream into LLVM/Clang...

In this topic we’ll learn how to install and configure the latest official version of Nagios Core from sources in Debian and Ubuntu servers. Nagios Core is a free Open Source network monitoring application

Linux Operating System Market by Size, Share, Trends, Growth and Key Players Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, Red Hat, Inc, IBM Corporation…  Bulletin Line

Modern Linux systems often use systemd as their init system and manager for jobs and many other functions. Services managed by systemd generally send their output (of all forms: warnings, errors, informational messages, and more) to the systemd journal, not to traditional logging systems like syslog.

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When you're a systems administrator, you don't just have one job; you have ALL the jobs, and often each one is on-demand with little to no warning. Unless you do a task every day, you may not always have all the commands and options you need in mind when you need them. And that's why I love cheat sheets.

Cheat sheets help you avoid silly mistakes, they keep you from having to look through pages of documentation, and they keep you moving efficiently through your tasks. I've selected my favorite 10 cheat sheets for any sysadmin, regardless of experience level.

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Scary 'BootHole' flaw puts Windows, Linux PCs at risk: What to do  Tom's Guide

Boothole vulnerability puts billions of Windows and Linux devices at risk  ITProPortal

Linux file and directory management commands  TechRepublic

I recently participated in The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America, held virtually June 29-July 2, 2020. In the course of that event, I had the opportunity to speak with a fellow attendee about my career in Linux systems administration and how it had led me to a career focused on open source. Specifically, he asked, how does a systems administrator who doesn't do a lot of coding participate in open source projects?

That's a great question!

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Building off the recently mainlined Intel work on split lock detection, Intel engineers have now been extending that with bus lock detection support...

Intel Prepping Bus Lock Detection For Linux To Avoid This Performance Pitfall  Phoronix

Intel Prepping Bus Lock Detection For Linux To Avoid This Performance Pitfall  Phoronix

TrickBot's new Linux malware covertly infects Windows devices  BleepingComputer

Linux Basics for Hackers: Getting Started with Networking, Scripting, and Security in Kali  Digital Market News

Global Linux Computer Market Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2020-2025) By Top Key Vendors- Dell Minifree Slimbook System76 Ubuntushop.be Purism Juno Computers  Bulletin Line

An Nginx server block is the equivalent of an Apache virtual host and makes it possible for you to host more than one domain or website on your server. Related Article: How to Set

The open-source MSM DRM driver developed by Google, Qualcomm's Code Aurora, and other parties as what started out as part of the "Freedreno" driver initiative is continuing to see better support for the newer Adreno 640 and 650 series...

MSM Open-Source Driver Continues On Qualcomm Adreno 640/650 Series Bring-Up  Phoronix

It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through the year, and what a year it has been. Thank you to all of our partners for their contributions to drive success for our clients and for demonstrating impressive flexibility and creativity during these difficult times. While this year has certainly been one of continuous change and new challenges, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect on the momentum and innovation seen across our partner ecosystem thus far. 

Merged today to mainline for Linux 5.8 Git and also marked for back-porting is a change to make it more difficult to guess the network random number generator's internal state. It looks like it could be for a yet-to-be-published vulnerability...