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While since 2016~2017 AMD has been posting Linux kernel patches for Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization, coming out this morning is finally the first public patch series wiring up the Linux kernel for SEV-ES as further enhancing virtualization encryption...

The Linux Kernel Now Seeing Patches For AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" Support  Phoronix

The Linux Kernel Now Seeing Patches For AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" Support  Phoronix

There’s a ‘Windows 12 Lite’ OS in the market but you shouldn’t use it  Hindustan Times

The KDE community has released Plasma 5.18 as the newest version of their desktop and a release that is also a long-term support release, succeeding the aging Plasma 5.12 LTS...

How To Download & Install Linux Ubuntu Operating System  thegameroof News

Just as scheduled, earlier this month the feature freeze went into effect for Qt 5.15 as the last major step for Qt5 before seeing Qt 6.0 hopefully arrive towards the end of the year...

South Korean government planning to move 3.3 million Windows PCs to Linux  MSPoweruser

Mozilla Firefox 73 is available this morning as the latest update to this open-source cross-platform web browser...

1. Sick of Windows 10? Linux-based Windows 12 Lite promises to be three times faster  TechRadar
2. Linux-based Windows 12 Lite is '3x faster than Windows 10' and 'immune from ransomware'  BetaNews
3. “Windows 12 Lite” is not what you think (unless you’re thinking Linux-based Windows 10 knockoff)  Liliputing
4. Goodbye, Windows: Another Government Plans En-Masse Transition to Linux  Softpedia News
5. There’s a ‘Windows 12 Lite’ OS in the market but you shouldn’t use it  Hindustan Times
6. View full coverage on Google News

Sick of Windows 10? Linux-based Windows 12 Lite promises to be three times faster  TechRadar

Linux Encryption Tool Cryptsetup Now Supports Windows Disk Encrypted Devices  Fossbytes

5 Cybersecurity Misconceptions Most Linux Users Still Believe In  Mighty Gadget

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Status, Emerging Trends and 2024: openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu Linux  Instant Tech News

Red Hat's Stratis storage project for offering enterprise storage capabilities on Linux to compete with the likes of ZFS and Btrfs while being built atop LVM and XFS saw the first update to its daemon of 2020...

Red Hat's Stratis 2.0.1 Released For This Linux Storage Management Solution  Phoronix

Recently, my husband was telling me about an upcoming job interview where he would have to run through some basic commands on a computer. He was anxious about the interview, but the best way for him to learn and remember things has always been to equate the thing he doesn't know to something very familiar to him. Because our conversation happened right after I was roaming the grocery store trying to decide what to cook that evening, it inspired me to write about kubectl and Helm commands by equating them to an ordinary trip to the grocer.

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I gave a talk about multi-architecture container images at LISA19 in October that included a lengthy live demo. Rather than writing out 30+ commands and risking typos, I decided to automate the demo with a shell script.

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Java comes with a core set of libraries, including those that define commonly used data types and related behavior, like String or Date; utilities to interact with the host operating system, such as System or File; and useful subsystems to manage security, deal with network communications, and create or parse XML. Given the richness of this core set of libraries, it's often easy to find the necessary bits and pieces to reduce the amount of code a programmer must write to solve a problem.

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Sick of Windows 10? Linux-based Windows 12 Lite promises to be three times faster  TechRadar