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It was a year and a half ago that Red Hat acquired CoreOS while today they are announcing their first preview release of Fedora CoreOS...

One of the commonest errors CentOS users encounter when using YUM package manager (for example running yum update command), especially on a freshly installed system is the “Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo:...

El Reg sits down to code with .NET for Linux and MySQL, hitting some bumps along the way  The Register

Hands On Microsoft loves Linux – but coding and deploying an ASP.NET Core application for the open-source OS comes with a bit of friction compared to using ...

'Critical' vulnerability discovered in VLC on Linux and Windows -- but VideoLAN says it is not reproducible  BetaNews

Reports have emerged of a security bug in the Windows and Linux versions of VLC, making it vulnerable to remote-code execution via malicious videos.

Dropbox is Bringing Back Support For ZFS, XFS, Btrfs And eCryptFS On Linux  It's FOSS

As spotted in the latest beta build of Dropbox, the support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS is coming back to Linux. It was dropped from Dropbox on Linux in late ...

The ls command lists files on a POSIX system. It's a simple command, often underestimated, not in what it can do (because it really does only one thing), but in how you can optimize your use of it.

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Have an old computer gathering dust in your basement? Why not put it to use? A backup machine could come in handy if your primary computer fails and you want to be online with a larger screen than your smartphone. Or it could act as a cheap secondary computer shared by the family. You could even make it into a retro gaming box.

You can take any computer up to a dozen years old and—with the right software—perform many of the same tasks you can with new machines. Open source software is the key.

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Metrics dashboards enable DevOps teams to monitor the entire DevOps platform so they can respond to issues in real-time, which is critical in the event of downtime or disruption in the production environment or application services.

DevOps dashboards aggregate metrics from multiple observation tools to create monitoring reports for dev and ops teams. They also allow teams to track multiple metrics, such as service deployment times, bugs, errors, work items, backlogs, and more.

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QuickHash GUI is an open source hashing tool for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks Technology News

QuickHash GUI is a cross-platform hashing tool for Windows, Linux and macOS.You can use it to check the values of text, files, folders, and an entire disk.

Global Linux Software Market 2019 – Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  Rise Media

Global Linux Software Market Growth 2019-2025 is detailed analysis dependent on Linux Software market that conveys the define thoroughly around the world.

The excitement over the open-source AMD Radeon Navi graphics driver support for Linux gamers/users continues. On Tuesday the RADV driver saw support land for binning to boost performance but while Bas was doing that, Samuel Pitoiset of Valve posted patches allowing GFX10/Navi to support Vulkan transform feedback...

As organizations pursue technologies to help them digitally transform their operations, it becomes increasingly clear how important the human side of this process is. With virtualization, cloud computing, containers and many other tools available to speed innovation, there is pressure to change while maintaining a stable and secure environment--which takes a special kind of expertise. It highlights for us the importance of Red Hat’s variety of support and service offerings.

Another late change proposal coming in for Fedora 31 is to allow update-alternatives to optionally point /usr/bin/ld as the default linker to /usr/bin/lld for the LLVM linker...

Unikernels: the next stage of Linux's dominance – OSnews  OS News

Unikernels have demonstrated enormous advantages over Linux in many important domains, causing some to propose that the days of Linux's dominance may ...

Linux kernel 5.3-rc1 released | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 5.3-rc1. He wrote in the mailing list, “This is a pretty big release, judging by the commit count. Not the biggest ...

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 5.3-rc1. He wrote in the mailing list, “This is a pretty big release, judging by the commit count. Not the biggest ever (that honor still goes to 4.9-rc1, which was exceptionally big), and we've had a couple of comparable ones (4.12, 4.15 and 4.19 were also big merge windows), but it's definitely up there. Source: LKML

Ubisoft will join the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Gold member.

Microsoft looks to 'do for data sharing what open source did for code'  Linux.com

Microsoft is working to standardize data-sharing terms via pre-designed licensing agreements, the first of which now are available for preview and comment.

OpenWhisk Gets Its Apache Software Diploma | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

The OpenWhisk open source serverless platform hit graduation status as a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. The designation comes as the ...