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Staging Changes Lighten The Linux 5.6 Kernel By More Than Thirty Thousand Lines

Phoronix - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 16:35
With Linux 5.6 the staging area has seen new functionality but thanks to removing old code it ends up removing a fair number of lines of code from the kernel...

Run your network with open source software

opensource.com - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 16:02

Way back in 2005, a company called Vyatta was founded by Allan Leinwand. It offered the first commercially supported, open source router and firewall solution. Named after the ancient Sanskrit for "open," the company's goal of bringing open source networking products to the market was so successful that it was purchased by competitor Brocade. This effectively killed Vyatta, but because Vyatta's product was open source, it didn't stop it.


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4 open source productivity tools on my wishlist

opensource.com - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 16:01

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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NSA cloud advice, Facebook open source year in review, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 16:00

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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How to Install Yay AUR Helper in Arch Linux and Manjaro

Tecmint - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 15:18
The tow commonly used AUR helpers in Arch Linux are Yaourt and Packer. You can easily use them for Arch Linux package management tasks such as installing and updating packages. However, the two have...

Pentoo – A Security-Focused Linux Distro Based on Gentoo

Tecmint - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 15:18
Pentoo is an open-source Live CD and Live USB Gentoo Linux-based operating system designed for experts in the field of penetration testing and security assessment. It is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures...

FreeNAS 11.3 Released With A Plethoa Of Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 14:31
The folks at iXsystems have released FreeNAS 11.3, their latest big update to this FreeBSD-based operating system designed around the OpenZFS file-system for offering advanced network-attached storage capabilities...

RADV Re-Enables NGG Geometry Shader Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 13:02
On top of the last minute Radeon Vulkan "RADV" improvements landing on Wednesday for Mesa 20.0, another big ticket item landed... Well, re-enabled...

USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 09:50
Ahead of USB4 devices expected to begin appearing later this year, the Linux 5.6 kernel is wired up with initial USB4 support...

Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038

Phoronix - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 07:17
On top of all the spectacular work coming with Linux 5.6, here is another big improvement that went under my radar until today: Linux 5.6 is slated to be the first mainline kernel ready for 32-bit systems to run past the Year 2038!..

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