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Qt 5.15 Aiming For Release A Week From Today

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 19:15
Qt 5.15 is aiming to release next week while today marks the availability of the toolkit's second release candidate...

WireGuard Ported To The OpenBSD Kernel - Looking For Upstream Inclusion

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 19:05
With the WireGuard secure VPN tunnel having been upstreamed in the Linux 5.6 kernel, developer attention recently turned to OpenBSD and porting the very promising VPN technology to its kernel...

Proxmox VE 6.2 Released With Zstd Backups, Live Migration With ZFS Storage Replication

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 18:43
Version 6.2 of the Proxmox VE open-source virtualization environment has been released for this web-based, easy-to-use solution...

FlightGear 2020.1 Released For This Open-Source Flight Simulator

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 18:30
FlightGear 2020.1 is out as the newest release to this long-running project providing an open-source flight simulator...

An Elasticsearch and Kibana-based dashboard for COVID-19

opensource.com - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 15:02

Looking back to the start of the year, we could never have predicted what would befall our world as a result of COVID-19. Back then, the coronavirus was spreading in China, and while there were warnings of its potential to escalate across the world, few could imagine the tremendous shift it would bring to the status quo.

Today, we find ourselves living in a new normal. Working from home has become standard, the global economy is uncertain, hospitals are working harder than ever, and the world is waiting for a vaccine to provide reassurance that we can stop social distancing.


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Scan your Linux security with Lynis

opensource.com - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 15:01

Have you ever thought about how secure your Linux machine really is? There are numerous Linux distros, each with its own default settings, on which you run dozens of software packages with different version numbers, and numerous services running in the background, which we hardly know or care about.

To find the security posture—the overall security status of the software, network, and services running on your Linux machine—you could run a few commands and get bits and pieces of relevant information, but the amount of data you need to parse is huge.


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5 humans review 5 open source video chat tools

opensource.com - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 15:00

Stuck indoors like most of the rest of the world, a group of Opensource.com editors and correspondents—Seth Kenlon, Matt Broberg, Alan Formy-Duval, Jessica Cherry, and Chris Hermansen—decided to use their far-flung locations and variable-quality internet connections to try out several open source video-conferencing solutions.


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How to Configure IPv6 Network on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 13:49
IPv6 addressing was developed in anticipation of depletion of the IPv4 addresses. It is meant to solve the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses through the use of a much wider network addressing space. An IPv6...

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