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File this under the "I can't believe it took this long" or "why wasn't this done before" section... Thanks to SUSE, there are finally patches pending to allow easily setting sysctl parameters from the kernel command line using a generic infrastructure...

There Is Finally Work To Allow Sysctl Parameters To Be Set From The Linux Kernel Command Line  Phoronix

There Is Finally Work To Allow Sysctl Parameters To Be Set From The Linux Kernel Command  Phoronix

Tricks for getting around your Linux file system  Network World

Coronavirus lockdown: 10 free online computer science courses from Harvard, Princeton & other top universities to study  Gadgets Now

Going back to over a year ago were discussions by Oracle engineers and others about a secure launch boot protocol for the Linux kernel to in turn tie into the Trenchboot open-source project working on various system integrity features. We are now finally seeing new patches out of Oracle for wiring more Trenchboot support into the Linux kernel...

Oracle Engineers Send Out Linux Patches For Trenchboot Secure Late-Launch Kernel Support  Phoronix

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has sent out a reminder to Fedora contributors to "be excellent to each other" while announcing the project has a new vision statement...

Need Viber on your Chromebook? For now, Linux is probably the answer  Chrome Unboxed

Life, Pension, Health Disability Insurance Industry Share, Business Strategy And Forthcoming Developments |IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  Packaging News 24

The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it  Ars Technica

SUSE offers free Linux Linux support to medical device manufacturers  Mash Viral

Linux Operating System Market Key Segments, Valuation And Sales Forecast 2027 |FICS, Fiserv, Mortgage Builder, Nortridge Software  Skyline Gazette

Following last week's benchmarks of OpenJDK 8 through the newly-released OpenJDK 14 JVM benchmarks, some Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing Java benchmarks with Oracle's GraalVM as well as Amazon's Corretto JVM implementations. Here are some benchmarks of those benchmarks up against OpenJDK both for Java 8 and Java 11 releases.

SUSE offers free enterprise Linux support to medical devices manufacturers  ZDNet

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-004 – what changed with this cert and test?  Security Boulevard

Bodhi Linux 5.1.0 now available  BetaNews

Cloudflare employs Linux disk encryption on their servers and with some optimizations have made it at least two times faster throughput while also lowering the latency...

Cloudflare Improving Linux Disk Encryption Performance - Doubling The Throughput  Phoronix

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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