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Securing Linux's master sysadmin command: Sudo  ZDNet

Kali Linux 2020.2: New look, new packages, new installer options  Help Net Security

AMD announced today the Radeon Pro VII workstation graphics card for $1899 USD and will begin shipping in June...

Linux Software Market 2020: Potential Growth, Challenges, and Know the Companies List Could Potentially Benefit or Loose out From the Impact of COVID-19 | Key Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Jewish Life News

The upstream Linux kernel developers have come out against a proposal to begin using the "-O3" optimization level when compiling the open-source code-base with the GCC 10 compiler or newer...

Upstream Linux Developers Against "-O3" Optimizing The Kernel  Phoronix

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty

The LLVM compiler stack is about to merge its support for the BFloat16 floating-point format, including the BF16 C language support...

Huawei Says Controversial Linux Kernel Patch Wasn’t Their Idea  TechNadu

Forget Windows, Linux Is The Most In-Demand OS On Microsoft Azure  Fossbytes

A lot is building up for Linux 5.8 and there already being a few rounds of AMDGPU feature improvements. Another batch of feature material for the AMD Radeon graphics driver was sent in this week to DRM-Next destined for Linux 5.8...

Linux 5.8 Bringing Soft Recovery Support For GFX10/Navi  Phoronix

While many hoped that with the adoption of Vulkan it would lead to avoiding driver-specific checks/workarounds, that's still not been the case to workaround various driver bugs and other issues. The RADV ACO compiler back-end has resorted to altering its version string in order to obtain 2~5% higher performance in Feral's latest Linux game release...

RADV ACO Adds A Version Hack/Workaround For An Extra 2~5% Boost In SotTR  Phoronix

Abandoned Open Source Code Heightens Commercial Software Security Risks  LinuxInsider.com

For those on the hunt for another lightweight Wayland compositor option, TAIWINS is the newest option...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2020 Edition — Krebs on Security  Krebs on Security

As a systems engineer, I spend a lot of time in data centers configuring servers and other computer equipment. Two of the items I keep in my toolkit are an RS-232 serial-to-USB converter and a standard DB-9 serial cable. These can be indispensable when you have no other way to access a device. You may need to deploy a new router that has not yet been configured for your network. You might need to troubleshoot a firewall appliance that has become inaccessible via SSH.

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A good amount of my day-to-day involves creating, modifying, and deploying Helm charts to manage the deployment of applications. Helm is an application package manager for Kubernetes, which coordinates the download, installation, and deployment of apps. Helm charts are the way we can define an application as a collection of related Kubernetes resources. 

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In a recent article, I mentioned my 2020 New Year's resolution: no more loops in Java. In that article, I chose a common (and simplified) forest management calculation—determining whether an area is forested, based on a legal definition, by calculating the proportion of ground shaded by tree canopies.

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