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Intel announced an interesting development in their oneAPI initiative: they are developing a new programming language/dialect...

The Kubernetes community has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.15, the second release of 2019. The release focuses on Continuous Improvement and Extensibility. Work on making Kubernetes installation, upgrade and configuration even more robust has been a major focus for this cycle for SIG Cluster Lifecycle.

Purism today issued their June software status update on how things are going with bringing up their privacy-minded Linux software stack for their Librem 5 smartphone. On the software side things are still moving along though still rather primitive with a goal of shipping in Q3. Similarly, this status update lacks any talk of the hardware progress for seeing how that is moving if there is any chance of shipping their planned phone next month after already having been setback twice...

Librem 5 Dev Kit Can At Least Run Quake II Now, Progress On Adopting Linux 5.2  Phoronix

Purism today issued their June software status update on how things are going with bringing up their privacy-minded Linux software stack for their Librem 5 ...

Cryptominer Uses Cron To Reinfect Linux Host After Removal  BleepingComputer

A cryptomining dropper malware has been spotted by security researchers while gaining persistence on Linux hosts by adding cron jobs to reinfect the ...

Malware Dropper Infects Linux Hosts with Resilient Cryptominer  BleepingComputer

A cryptomining dropper malware has been spotted by security researchers while gaining persistence on Linux hosts by adding cron jobs to reinfect the ...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has developers contributing to the Coreboot project...

Tech Giants Join Linux Foundation's Connected-Cities Efforts  Data Center Knowledge

Data center operators might be well advised to pay attention to a new project announced by the Linux Foundation in May. Called the Urban Computing ...

Alpine Linux 3.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight, security-minded Linux distribution built atop Musl libc and Busybox while catering being quite popular in the container crowd...

Open Invention Network, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3,000 licensees  ZDNet

While some businesses remain entangled in patent wars, the companies which have joined the OIN are freeing Linux from patent fights.

How to install the Unity editor on Linux  TechRepublic

The popular Unity editor is now available for Linux. Get it up and running so you can start developing on your favorite platform.

Docker Is Porting Its Container Platform to Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, Ubuntu 19.10 Will Drop 32-Bit Builds, Children of Morta Still Coming to Linux and Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Linux TCP System  Linux Journal

News briefs for June 19, 2019. The development team over at Docker is porting their container platform to Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) It ...

AMD Navi GPU stack bares all in Linux graphics driver update  PCGamesN

Eight Navi GPU variants have been spotted in Linux driver code. AMD's next-gen RDNA graphics chips are set for launch on July 7, 2019 within the RX 5700 XT ...

Benchmarks Of OpenMandriva's AMD Zen Optimized Linux Distribution Against Ubuntu, openSUSE, Clear Linux  Phoronix

Released this week was OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 as the latest major release for this Linux distribution of Mandriva/Mandrake heritage and continues on the ...

Released this week was OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 as the latest major release for this Linux distribution of Mandriva/Mandrake heritage and continues on the interesting trend of innovations. In addition to continuing to use the LLVM Clang compiler by default rather than GCC, among other changes that position it more uniquely than many other Linux distributions out there, their 4.0 release has a "znver1" spin that is optimized for AMD Ryzen/Threadripper/EPYC processors. Here are benchmarks comparing not only OpenMandriva 4.0's x86-64 and Znver1 options but also how that performance compares to the likes of Ubuntu 19.04, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Intel's Clear Linux.

Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD  Naked Security

Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-*service* by clogging networking I/O.

1. Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD  Naked Security
2. TCP SACK Panic Flaw Could Compromise Production Linux Machines  Security Intelligence
3. Linux Vulnerabilities Uncovered By Netflix  ISBuzz News
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Study the Elements with KDE's Kalzium  Linux Journal

I've written about a number of chemistry packages in the past and all of the computational chemistry that you can do in a Linux environment. But, what is ...

After being marred by delays the past several weeks, Qt 5.13 is shipping today as the latest major update to the Qt5 tool-kit and another step closer towards seeing Qt 6.0 around the end of 2020...

While as of Linux 5.2 the support for Intel's Icelake CPUs appear production ready with all of the bits in place from new IDs to the much enhanced "Gen 11" graphics, there are a few stragglers of items to land with the upcoming Linux 5.3 merge window though could be back-ported to current series. Fortunately, we haven't found anything major to be missing...