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RV Offsite Backup Update  Linux Journal

Having an offsite backup in your RV is great, and after a year of use, I've discovered some ways to make it even better. Last year I wrote a feature-length article ...

10.1-inch WUXGA panel PC runs Linux or Android on an i.MX8M  LinuxGizmos.com

Estone has launched a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200 “PPC-4310” touch-panel computer that runs Linux or Android on a quad -A53 i.MX8M with up to 4GB LPDDR4, ...

Experts Attempt to Explain DevOps--and Almost Succeed  Linux Journal

What is DevOps? How does it relate to other ideas and methodologies within software development? Linux Journal Deputy Editor and longtime software ...

Running GNOME in a Container  Linux Journal

Containerizing the GUI separates your work and play. Virtualization has always been a rich man's game, and more frugal enthusiasts—unable to afford fancy ...

Digging Through the DevOps Arsenal: Introducing Ansible  Linux Journal

If you need to deploy hundreds of server or client nodes in parallel, maybe on-premises or in the cloud, and you need to configure each and every single one of ...

Linux security startup Capsule8 raises approximately $6.5 million led by Intel Capital  VentureBeat

Capsule8 has received a multimillion-dollar investment from Intel Capital. The startup will use the money to protect Linux production environments.

Today is a wild one for open-source/Linux users. Let's begin with the unexpected news: NVIDIA is releasing more GPU hardware documentation at long last! Yes, freely-available hardware interface documentation to assist in the development of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver (Nouveau)...

The Best Command-Line-Only Video Games  Linux Journal

A rundown of the biggest, most expansive and impressive games that you can run entirely in your Linux shell. The original UNIX operating system was created, ...

Build a Versatile OpenStack Lab with Kolla  Linux Journal

Hone your OpenStack skills with a full deployment in a single virtual machine. It's hard to go anywhere these days without hearing something about the urgent ...

What Linux needs to do to reach the masses  TechRepublic

There is a surprisingly short list of issues Linux developers need to address to reach the masses.

My Favorite Infrastructure  Linux Journal

Take a tour through the best infrastructure I ever built with stops in architecture, disaster recovery, configuration management, orchestration and security.

Writing GitHub Web Hooks with Bash  Linux Journal

Bring your GitHub repository to the next level of functionality. For the past year since Microsoft has acquired GitHub, I've been hosting my Git repositories on a ...

CircleCI Brings Its CI To Microsoft Ecosystem | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

CircleCI has been supporting continuous integration for Linux and Mac programmers for some time, but up until today, Microsoft developers have been left on ...

CircleCI has been supporting continuous integration for Linux and Mac programmers for some time, but up until today, Microsoft developers have been left on the outside looking in. Today, the company changed that announcing new support for Microsoft programmers using Windows Server 2019. (Source: TechCrunch)

 

Linux is rubbish when RAM runs low  BetaNews

A developer has pointed out what many people have been complaining about for some time: Linux is terrible when memory runs low.

Wine on Windows lets you run Windows apps… on Windows (through Windows Subsystem for Linux)  Liliputing

Wine is a compatibility layer that makes it possible to run some Windows applications on non-Windows operating systems including Linux and macOS.

Words, Words, Words--Introducing OpenSearchServer  Linux Journal

How to create your own search engine combined with a crawler that will index all sorts of documents. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one of my favorite plays, ...

Ubuntu 19.10 to Support ZFS on Root as an Experimental Option in the Installer  Softpedia News

Canonical announced today that it plans to implement support for ZFS on root file system in the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system.

Yesterday the SWAPGS vulnerability was made public as a new variant of Spectre V1 that affects all operating systems and is believed to affect only Intel CPUs. The SWAPGS discovery by Bitdefender was quietly mitigated by Microsoft for Windows 10 last month while yesterday the patches were posted for the mainline Linux kernel as the Grand Schemozzle. As soon as learning of this SWAPGS vulnerability and seeing the kernel code, I began running some preliminary performance tests to look at the impact of this latest CPU mitigation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Released with Live Kernel Patching, Improvements  Softpedia News

Will be supported for two years, until August 30th, 2021.