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Kali Linux 2020.1 released: New tools, Kali NetHunter rootless, and more!  Help Net Security

I've used Ansible since 2013 and maintain some of my original playbooks to this day. They have evolved with Ansible from version 1.4 to the current version (as of this writing, 2.9).

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Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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Linux users say that choice is one of the platform's strengths. On the surface, this might sound self-aggrandizing (or self-deprecating, depending on your perspective). Other operating systems offer choice, too, but once you look at the options available for nearly anything you want to do on Linux, it doesn't take long to conclude that a new word ought to be invented for what we mean by "choice."

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The Time Namespace, which was originally proposed back in 2018 for allowing per-namespace offsets to the system clocks, has finally entered the mainline kernel in early 2020 with the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel...

Composer is the most popular package management program for PHP, that offers a standard form for managing dependencies of PHP applications and needed libraries that your project relies on and it will manage (install/update)...

The very exciting networking subsystem updates have made it into the Linux 5.6 kernel...

Customize and Configure your Amazon Linux WorkSpace on AWS  idk.dev

Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client has been rather neglected the past several years with all the focus on the Firefox web browser, but as the next step forward for this mail/RSS client is now placing it under the newly-formed MZLA Technologies Corporation...

Sony Now "Officially" Maintaining The Linux PlayStation Input Driver, But Leads To Interesting Problem  Phoronix

It turns out Sony is now maintaining the mainline Linux kernel's hid-sony input driver in an "official capacity now across various devices." This hid-sony driver is what traditionally has supported the various PlayStation controllers and other input devices for their hardware. But their newfound "official" support for this open-source input driver could lead to interesting predicaments...

Ubuntu Invites Windows 7 Users With Linux Switch Guides  BleepingComputer

One of the work items we have been keen to monitor during the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development cycle is tracking the happenings around Zsys, the Ubuntu/Canonical led utility for helping to administer ZFS On Linux systems. In ending out January, Zsys now has more functionality in tow...

Ubuntu's Zsys Tool For Enhancing The ZFS On Linux Experience Now Supports Snapshots  Phoronix

Showing memory usage in Linux by process and user  Network World

We remain quite excited to see Godot 4.0 this year that most notably is working on Vulkan API support...

While Mesa 20.0 will be entering its feature freeze this week and branching ahead of the stable release expected in about one month, for now the Mesa 19.3 series is the newest available for stable users...

As part of the Linux 5.6 development dance, Ingo Molnar began sending in all of the pull requests this morning for the different areas of the Linux kernel he oversees...

The Big Set Of x86 Changes Hit The Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix

The Big Set Of x86 Changes Hit The Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix