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A new patch series sent out just under one month ago was providing opt-in L1 data cache flushing on context switching. That work has now been revived again and now with documentation added it's clear that this work is being done in response to a recent CVE being made public...

citybizlist : Washington DC : Red Hat Appoints Paul Cormier as CEO  Citybizlist Real Estate

Ongoing work around Linux's exec() code should make it less deadlock prone in future kernel versions...

Linux Exec Should Be Less Deadlock Prone In Future Kernels  Phoronix

Linux Exec Should Be Less Deadlock Prone In Future Kernels  Phoronix

The Linux 5.7 kernel will bring random performance improvements as in /dev/random...

/dev/random Seeing Performance Work For Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Red Hat Names Paul Cormier President and Chief Executive Officer  Olean Times Herald

What can Linux and Mozilla teach ICER about how to do drug value assessments? -  pharmaphorum

What is Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL and WSL2)? -- Linux in Windows  Fossbytes

"All the documentation, the tooling, the community is great—you have all the tools to succeed in writing Rust code."

Antonio Verardi, Infrastructure Engineer of Yelp

So, why hesitate to learn a new programming language when all this is provided to you? It's now your turn to join the great community of Rust. If you are interested, you can read more about the advantages of Rust over other languages here.

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The Open Geospatial (OSGeo) Foundation recently participated in Google's first Season of Docs, in which Google sponsored senior technical writers to contribute to open source projects. OSGeo is an umbrella organization for around 50 geospatial open source projects. I've contributed to a number of these projects over the years and recently co-mentored the two Season of Docs technical writers Google allocated to OSGeo.

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In this month's wander around the web, we've found articles on Ansible Runner, managing network interfaces, securing your Ansible Tower installations and a data scientist's analysis of how Collections was an inevitable path for Ansible. On YouTube, there were some great videos this month, including an Ansible 101 with Jeff Geerling. Enjoy!

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A cross-platform solution that provides secure remote access, remote control and remote support solution across devices. The data traffic between devices are encrypted which makes the TeamViewer very secure. This software is available for...

Kaidan is the open-source project that last year joined KDE as a Jabber/XMPP chat client. After a half year of work, Kaidan 0.5 has finally been released...

Editor’s note: Today, we announced that Paul Cormier will assume the role of president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, succeeding Jim Whitehurst. Paul shared the following email with all of our associates around the world. 

Hi everyone, 

For the past 20 years, Paul Cormier has helped design, craft and ultimately drive Red Hat's product direction, from the communities we support to the new technology sectors we enter. Now as president and CEO, Paul will be responsible for executing the vision for Red Hat as a whole, not just as our product leader. 

Huawei Joins Linux Patent Consortium 'Open Invention Network'  The Fast Mode

The perf subsystem continues to be quite lively with improvements and for Linux 5.7 is seeing a number of low-level improvements...

Linux 5.7 Perf Changes Include Additions For AMD Zen 3, Intel Tiger Lake  Phoronix