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Intel open-source developers have released IWD v1.6 as their open-source, embedded-friendly wireless daemon for Linux systems as an alternative to WPA_Supplicant...

Disclosed back in mid-November was the Intel JCC Erratum that required a CPU microcode update to mitigate and that in turn had broad performance hits. But via toolchain updates, some of that overhead can be offset. The GNU Assembler patches were quickly merged and new options exposed for helping to decrease that performance hit but on the LLVM side the developers are still working on their mitigation with some design decisions still to be made...

The Dream of Android Apps on Linux Phones Is So Close to Coming True  Softpedia News

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM in short) is an open-source and de facto standard virtualization solution that is tightly integrated into Linux. It is a loadable kernel module that turns Linux into a type-1 (bare-metal)...

Cartesi launches first ever Layer-2 Linux infrastructure for developing blockchain DApps  European Gaming Industry News

Oracle Released New Update 3 Of Unbreakable Enterprise Linux Kernel 5  Fossbytes

In Kubernetes, objects are analogous to a job or a completed task in the real world. You can use them to define common tasks, store them in a version control system, and apply them with kubectl apply. Kubernetes ensures that this triggers everything necessary to bring your declarative description to life by creating the depending resources (like pods) to run your software. Kubernetes contains a number of built-in object types that can be created with this workflow, like Deployments and Services.

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A Markov model (named after the mathematician Andrey Markov) is used for forecasting in systems of random change. Markov's insight is that good predictions in this context can be made from only the most recent occurrence of an event, ignoring any occurrences before the current one. The approach might be described as memoryless or history-agnostic prediction.

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Measuring the health of an open source community is a topic of increasing importance. From the moment an open source community forms, researchers, maintainers, and organizations try to understand whether the community is healthy and what makes it healthy.

"If you don't measure it, you cannot improve it"
—Peter Drucker

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How Linux Can Replace Windows in China  Softpedia News

Introduced into the Linux 4.18 kernel back in June 2018 was the new RSEQ system call for "Restartable Sequences" to provide faster user-space operations on per-CPU data by avoiding atomic operations updates. Sadly, seeing user-space make use of RSEQ has been a slow process...

Rakuten Joins the Open Invention Network Community  Yahoo Finance

Windows 10 Outperforming Linux On A ~$5000 Laptop, Ubuntu Beating Clear Linux  Phoronix

Doom Eternal was released this week by id Software as their first game atop the Vulkan-focused id Tech 7 engine. While it's another id Software game not seeing a native Linux port, with some tweaking the game can run under Steam Play / Proton. And now Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver has landed a fix for AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPUs with a fix allowing those older graphics cards to handle this latest Doom title...

Red Hat recently announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.3, which introduces Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) 8 support, enhancements to operations on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and several new security features. Along with these exciting changes JBoss EAP adds support for SQL Server 2017 on Windows and, for the first time, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

The Oracle Linux team has released Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 5 Update 3 as the newest version of their optimized downstream Linux kernel catering to cloud workloads...

Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5U3 Released With Better ARM 64-Bit Support  Phoronix

Best Linux GUIs for every type of user  TechRepublic

Linux firewall basics with ufw  Network World

Cartesi Launches Linux Infrastructure For Developing Blockchain DApps  Blockchain News