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There's growing awareness in the design community about the importance of design ethics and the way proprietary technology subjugates users. As a user experience designer, I believe technology should be designed to respect the earth as well as creators and users. Using and contributing to Linux is one way to align my design ethics with my practice.

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When reaching for a templating language for writing a Python web application, there are an abundance of robust solutions. 

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Kanban is nothing new; in fact, it predates most readers of this article. Its age becomes apparent when we add the year Toyota introduced kanban in its main plant machine shop (1953) to the timeline image from our analyzing the DNA of DevOps article.

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Upcoming Ubuntu 20.04-based Linux Mint 20 Drops 32-Bit ISO  Fossbytes

I recently came across Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC), an interesting project that uses YAML formats for writing Jenkins configurations.  YAMLs have been used in Kubernetes (and OpenShift), Ansible, and many other things. In this article, I will explain how to get started with JCasC. You will need a working Podman installation on your system, so follow Podman's Getting Started guide if you need to set it up first.

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strongSwan is an open-source, multi-platform, modern and complete IPsec-based VPN solution for Linux that provides full support for Internet Key Exchange (both IKEv1 and IKEv2) to establish security associations (SA) between two peers. It...

QEMU 5.0-rc1 was released on Tuesday as the latest development release in the path to QEMU 5.0.0 expected to be achieved later this month...

QEMU 5.0-rc1 Released For Linux Virtualization With The Stable Update Coming This Month  Phoronix

WireGuard VPN added to Linux 5.6  TechRadar New Zealand

GNU Linux-Libre 5.6 Kernel Is Out for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs  LXer

The Linux 5.7 Scheduler Changes Bring Prominent Additions For Intel & Arm CPUs  Phoronix

Ingo Molnar on Monday sent in the scheduler updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel that saw its merge window open at the start of this week. For the Linux 5.7 cycle are a number of prominent scheduler additions...

Linux Mint 20 Ulyana ISOs will only be available in 64-bit  Neowin

Linux Mint 20 Ulyana ISOs will only be available in 64-bit  Neowin

During the month of March on Phoronix were 277 original news articles written by your's truly along with another 20 featured benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what is exciting Linux/open-source enthusiasts with so many hardware and software happenings...

Oracle has announced their newest major release of their "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" that they continue spinning as an option for users of Oracle Linux and being the default within the Oracle Cloud...

Oracle Ships Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 - Based On Linux 5.4 + DTrace Over BPF, Etc  Phoronix

The media subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...

Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver  Phoronix

Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver  Phoronix