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Weston 9.0 release preparations are getting underway. At least compared to the original Weston 9.0 release plans, this Wayland compositor is running about a month behind those plans but in any case the release is now making its way to reality...

In the first two articles of this series on Mycroft, an open source, privacy-focused digital voice assistant, I covered the background behind voice assistants and some of Mycroft's core tenets.

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Beware! TrickBot Malware Is Now Infecting Linux Devices  Fossbytes

The team at Anvil recently open sourced the Anvil App Server, a runtime engine for hosting web apps built entirely in Python.

The community reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, and we, at Anvil, have already incorporated lots of that feedback into our next release. But one of the questions we keep getting asked is, "Why did you choose to open source such a core part of your product?"

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Continuing the previous tutorial on How to Secure and Harden CentOS server, in this article, we’ll discuss other security tips that will be presented on the below checklist. Requirements 20 CentOS Server Hardening Security

System76 Announces New Keyboard For Linux With Interchangeable Keys  Fossbytes

This tutorial only covers general security tips for CentOS 8/7 which can be used to harden the system. The checklist tips are intended to be used mostly on various types of bare-metal servers or

Linux warning: TrickBot malware is now infecting your systems  BleepingComputer

Global Linux Operating System Market Expeted To Reach xx.xx mn USD With growth Rate of xx by 2025| Pandamic Impact Analysis : IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux etc.  Market Research Correspondent

Friday July 31st, 2020 is witnessing 21st System Administrator Appreciation Day. System Administrator Appreciation Day also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay, SAD or SAAD is celebrated on the last Friday of July every Year.

Intel PMT Framework + Tiger Lake Telemetry Support Updated For Linux  Phoronix

Back in May I wrote about Intel working on Platform Monitoring Technology or hardware telemetry capabilities that are coming with Tiger Lake. The Linux support continues to be worked on for this "PMT" functionality although it looks like the work won't be ready in time for the imminent Linux 5.9 kernel merge window...

While there is already the Cage kiosk full-screen shell as well as the likes of Ubuntu's Mir Kiosk Shell, Wayland's Weston reference compositor now has its own implementation...

KDE archive tool flaw let hackers take over Linux accounts  BleepingComputer

Linux runs on 500 of the top 500 supercomputers  Network World

Red Hat Enterprise Linux runs into Boothole patch trouble  Best gaming pro

Red Hat Enterprise Linux runs into Boothole patch trouble  ZDNet

Windows Containers 101  Security Boulevard

Automate Linux Management  Security Boulevard

Systemd 246 is out today as the newest version of this dominant Linux init system and system/service manager. Systemd 246 has a lot of new functionality in time for making it into at least some of the autumn 2020 Linux distributions...