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After going through 40+ rounds of revisions and review, the Linux kernel "LOCKDOWN" feature might finally make it into the Linux 5.4 mainline kernel...

Linux Software Market Is Booming Worldwide | Top key Players Like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft  NewsStoner

A new report as an Linux Software market that includes a comprehensive analysis of the global market. This includes investigating past progress, ongoing ...

With Hyper Threading continuing to look increasingly unsafe in data centers / shared computing environments in light of all the speculative execution vulnerabilities exposed thus far particularly with L1TF and MDS having no SMT-secure mitigation, DigitalOcean continues working on their Linux kernel "core scheduling" patches so they can still make use of HT/SMT in a sane and safe manner...

Operating System Market Is Thriving Worldwide – Ubuntu, Google, Linux, BlackBerry Limited, Apple, Microsoft, 3M Company  NewsStoner

The Market Insights Reports has published the obtainability of a new statistical data to its repository titled as, Operating System Market. The report provides ...

A Phoronix reader pointed out recent patches by a SUSE engineer working on support for mounting root file-systems over SMB (Samba)...

Linux 5.3 isn't being released until this weekend after being delayed by one week, but already there have been a few early pull requests submitted for the to-be-opened Linux 5.4 merge window...

GNOME 3.34 Released With New Features & Performance Improvements  It's FOSS

GNOME 3.34 "Thessaloniki" is here. Check out the new features the latest release of GNOME brings to desktop Linux.

Explore how Linux Operating System Market growing Focusing with Top Companies like: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Industry Segment

Linux Operating System Market 2019 Global Industry research report offers you market size, industry growth, share, development trends, investment plans, ...

Lilocked ransomware (Lilu) affects thousands of Linux-based servers  Packt Hub

A ransomware strain named Lilocked or Lilu has affected thousands of Linux-based servers all over the world.

Huawei is Now Selling Linux Laptops  It's FOSS

Chinese manufacturer Huawei has been spotted selling its flagship laptop series MateBook preinstalled with Deepin Linux in China. Will it be coming to other ...

Brian Behlendorf is perhaps best known for being a co-founder of the Apache Project, which became the Apache Software Foundation. Today, he's the executive director of the Hyperledger Foundation, an organization focused on enterprise-grade, open source, distributed ledgers (better known as blockchains). He also says he "put the first ad banner online and have been apologizing ever since."

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In my series about GNOME Boxes, I explained how Linux users can quickly spin up virtual machines on their desktop without much fuss. Boxes is ideal for creating virtual machines in a pinch when a simple configuration is all you need.

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Many sobering lessons from history emphasize democracy is not a finished product. The Roman Empire ended in a dictatorship, while the feudal Middle Ages delivered the Magna Carta and the Renaissance; despite the American Revolution, slavery continued for many years, while the French Revolution resulted in the restoration of the monarchy. That said, more people are living in democracies around the world today than at any time before, and living standards in democracies continue to improve.

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On September 27th, dozens of indie developers will come together virtually to develop video games using open source software. This date marks the third annual Open Jam, a three-day, 80-hour online game jam dedicated to indie developers building playful games and advancing the world of open source game development.

In preparation for Open Jam 2019, we wanted to share the story of Open Jams past and preview the exciting new things coming this year!

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US-China Trade War: Huawei switches from Windows to Linux  International Business Times UK

Huawei has so far been caught between the US and China in the ongoing trade war. Ever since it was put on the blacklist, there have been repercussions that ...

We all know the feeling of looking for a file and not finding it, even in the trash. The trauma that comes with file and data loss should end thanks to the TestDisk –...

While not quite as exciting as the big performance boost found with SVT-VP9 for AVX2 CPUs a few days ago, Intel's Scalable Video Technology team has released SVT-HEVC 1.4.1 as their newest feature release to this open-source H.265/HEVC video encoder...

Huawei now sells MateBook laptops in China running Linux  SlashGear

Ever since Huawei was put on the US' blacklist, the future of its products has been put into question. The company has more or less bragged about its self.

This shouldn't come as much surprise, but the upcoming Fedora 32 will offer the latest "L.A.M.P." stack components...

Wondering how Red Hat is helping its customers to succeed? Last month we published six customer success stories that highlight how we've helped customers gain efficiency, cut costs, and transform the way they deliver software. Read on to find out how Ascend Money, Heritage Bank, Generali Switzerland, and others have worked with Red Hat to improve their business.