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Separate from the Linux boot issue affecting AMD Ryzen 3000 (Zen 2) processors that has been attributed to RdRand, DragonFlyBSD is the first BSD at least we've seen getting a separate fix to be able to boot these new AMD processors...

The EXT4 file-system updates have already landed for the Linux 5.3 kernel merge window that opened this week...

Snow Ridge is the SoC Intel announced last December as a 10nm product intended for 5G products. With the in-development Linux 5.3 kernel is initial "perf" subsystem support for Snow Ridge...

Throwback Thursday: Hardly worth mentioning  Computerworld

Well, she thought you were looking for some weird explanation.

Linux 5.2 Release – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS & RISC-V Architectures  CNX Software

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 5.2 last Sunday: So I was somewhat pre-disposed towards making an rc8, simply because of my travels and.

How to Install the latest WPS Office on Linux  Dignited

WPS Office has been the go-to for Linuxers looking for a Microsoft Office alternative. The new update drops support for 32bit OS and now offers native PDF ...

How to Install the latest WPS Office on Linux  Dignited

WPS Office has been the go-to for Linuxers looking for a Microsoft Office alternative. The new update drops support for 32bit OS and now offers native PDF ...

If you’re in quality assurance, system administration, or (believe it or not) media production, you might have heard some variation of the term gold master, golden image, or master image, and so on. It’s a term that has made its way into the collective consciousness of anyone involved in creating one perfect model and then producing many duplicates from that mold. That’s what a gold master, or golden image, is: The virtual mold from which you cast your distributable models.

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Elasticsearch is an open source, full-text search engine developed in Java. Users upload datasets as JSON files. Then, Elasticsearch stores the original document before adding a searchable reference to the document in the cluster’s index.

Less than nine years after its creation, Elasticsearch is the most popular enterprise search engine. Elastic released its latest update—version 7.2.0 —on June 25, 2019.

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We asked members of our DevOps team to talk about their experience as introverts and to give extroverts some advice. Before we get into their responses, though, let’s first define the term.

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The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery  DevOps.com

Facebook's useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with.

A Linux administrators task is to typically install, upgrade, and monitor a company’s software and hardware while maintaining the essential applications and functions which include security tools, emails, LANs, WANs, web servers, etc. Read...

Kali Linux now available for Raspberry Pi 4  Notebookcheck.net

Kali Linux is now compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4. Currently, the distro is only available as a 32-bit OS, but Offensive Security is planning on releasing a ...

AMD Zen 2 CPUs support ACPI's Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) for tuning the system to energy and/or performance requirements. AMD has now published a new CPUfreq driver for handling their CPPC implementation and the new controls found with their new processors...

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai sent in the big set of audio driver changes for Linux 5.3...

In addition to better Wine support on NetBSD thanks to Google Summer of Code 2019, another student developer has been working on DRM ioctl support including when running their Linux emulation packages. Ultimately the hope is they can run the Steam Linux binary on NetBSD to enjoy gaming with DRM+Mesa...

NetBSD Working On DRM ioctl Support, Eventually To Allow Steam On Linux Gaming Support  Phoronix

In addition to better Wine support on NetBSD thanks to Google Summer of Code 2019, another student developer has been working on DRM ioctl support ...

Wind River Linux offers containers and cloud-native approaches for embedded computing software development  Linux.com

Wind River Systems is introducing enhancements to the Wind River Linux software to ease the adoption of containers in embedded computing systems.

Wind River Systems is introducing enhancements to the Wind River Linux software to ease the adoption of containers in embedded computing systems.

The scheduler changes for the Linux 5.3 kernel are as busy as ever...