Open-source News

SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Rates By Leveraging PCIe 4.0  Phoronix

Red Hat CEO, Paul Cormier, Talks About Covid-19, Success of Open Source, And IBM  Fossbytes

The all-important Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) code for open-source virtualization had mistakenly been applying its L1TF workaround for unaffected CPUs -- namely AMD EPYC CPUs -- for the past several months until the issue was uncovered this week...

Linux KVM Virtualization Had Mistakenly Been Applying L1TF Workaround To Unaffected CPUs  Phoronix

Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32  Ars Technica

Clang 11.0 has changed its "-O" optimization flag to match the defaults of GCC...

HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) Host Server  Experts Exchange

Version 2.0 of the libaom AOMedia AV1 video encoder / video codec SDK library is now available as the first major update in nearly two years...

A new patch series has been revived from work originally published by Micron back in 2018 for dealing with the behavior on their planar 2D NAND devices where in rare cases when issuing block erase commands, the flash block might not actually be erased and this could lead to further problems down the road when touching said block...

Linux Kernel Seeing Workaround Revived For Buggy Micron NAND Block Erase Behavior  Phoronix

HOW TO: Create your first Linux Virtual Machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) Host Server  Experts Exchange

Latest News 2020: Linux Operating System Market by Coronavirus-COVID19 Impact Analysis With Top Manufacturers Analysis | Top Players: Simply Protein, Clif Bar & Company, BHU Foods, PROBAR LLC, General Mills, etc. | InForGrowth  Cole of Duty

The cheapest laptop in the world is powered by a 28-year-old operating system  TechRadar South Africa

Microsoft admits it was wrong about Linux and open source  TechRadar

One of the great strengths of the Linux desktop is the choice it affords its users. If you don't like your application menu in the lower left of your screen, you can move it. If you don't like the way your file manager organizes your documents, you can use a different one. Admittedly, however, that can be confusing for new users who aren't used to having a say in how they use their computers. If you're looking at installing Linux, one of the choices you're going to have to make is which desktop you want to use, and the best way to do that is to try a few different ones until you find the on

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In my previous article, I introduced Skipper, an open source HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. This article focuses on how Skipper increases network visibility and describes its advantages for both developers of scalable applications and operators of the infrastructure they run on.

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Microsoft Edge for Linux makes brief appearance at Build 2020  OnMSFT

We all know that modern business has become a rapid-response environment. Never before have we had the number of IT resources at the tips of our fingers as we have today, and most of them are enabled by the cloud. When we refer to "the cloud", we may be talking about several computing concepts, but typically the cloud consists of a set of remotely-hosted resources and services, from web pages to mobile apps or even traditional desktop applications.

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LAMP stack is the combination of the most frequently used software packages to build dynamic websites. LAMP is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each of the packages included in it: Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and...

Endless OS 3.8.1 Released: A Mobile-Like Streamlined Linux Experience  Fossbytes