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PostgreSQL 13 Released With Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 22:10
PostgreSQL 13.0 is out this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used relational database server...

DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 Released With Numerous Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 21:59
DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 is out today as the latest stable version of this popular BSD operating system...

Intel Engineers Begin Landing Open-Source Support For TDX, Intel Key Locker

Phoronix - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 18:47
Last month Intel published a whitepaper on TDX as Trust Domain Extensions as a means of better securing virtual machines. TDX allows for isolating VMs from the hypervisor and other non-VMM system software. Intel TDX builds off other recent work around MKTME memory encryption and other features. We are now beginning to see that software side support roll-out along with the also-new Key Locker instructions...

Arm Begins Bringing Up Neoverse N2 Support In The GNU Toolchain

Phoronix - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 18:30
It was just a few days ago that Arm outlined the Neoverse N2 "Perseus" design as a follow-on to the Neoverse N1 and coming concurrently to the next-generation Cortex-A. Now the company has already jumped on beginning their open-source/Linux enablement work around the Neoverse N2...

HPE Preparing SGI UV5 Support For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 15:50
Recent hardware enablement work on the Linux kernel is HPE bringing up UV5 support...

7 things you can do with Ansible right now

opensource.com - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 15:02

Recently, the Forrester Wave, one of the most prominent independent IT industry analyst reports, chose Ansible as a leader in its overview of automation solutions.


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Manage knowledge with BlueSpice, an open source alternative to Confluence

opensource.com - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 15:01

Knowledge management is a key to success in modern enterprises—but it is not exactly easy to achieve. Keeping track of all relevant details across all employees is a huge challenge, especially in agile environments, which most companies say they are.


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Yes, you can run VMs on Kubernetes with KubeVirt

opensource.com - Thu, 09/24/2020 - 15:00

Containers and Kubernetes are awesome technologies that enable applications to run without a heavy operating system (OS), as using a virtual machine (VM) would require. Container-first, cloud-native applications are the future, but not every application is suitable to be cloud-native.


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