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It was just two days ago that Valve's performance-focused "ACO" shader compiler was submitted for review to be included in Mesa for the "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver. Just minutes ago that new shader compiler back-end was merged for Mesa 19.3...

Most Linux gamers these days should be running at least quad-core systems so Mesa 19.3 has been updated to reflect that reality with the number of CPU threads used by their disk cache...

The Linux 5.4 block subsystem changes brings the new blk-iocost model...

Back in July of last year the RADV Vulkan driver enabled primitive binning and DFSM for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver. Well, it thought it enabled DFSM support and paired with the binning did yield a minor performance benefit at the time for Raven Ridge APUs. But now it turns out the DFSM support wasn't properly wired up and is now addressed but is currently introducing a performance regression...

The mature XFS and Btrfs file-systems continue seeing more fixes and cleaning with the now in-development Linux 5.4 kernel...

Cybersecurity is no longer just the domain of the IT staff putting in firewalls and backing up servers. It takes a commitment from the top and a budget to match. The stakes are high when it comes to keeping your customers' information safe.

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At a high level, any machine learning problem can be divided into three types of tasks: data tasks (data collection, data cleaning, and feature formation), training (building machine learning models using data features), and evaluation (assessing the model). Features, defined as "individual measurable propert[ies] or characteristic[s] of a phenomenon being observed," are very useful because they help a machine understand the data and classify it into categories or predict a value.

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Last week, I introduced you to the origins of the mainframe's origins from a community perspective. Let's continue our journey, picking up at the end of 1999, which is when IBM got onboard with Linux on the mainframe (IBM Z).

According to the Linux on z Systems Wikipedia page:

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Oracle Autonomous Linux: A Self Updating, Self Patching Linux Distribution for Cloud Computing  It's FOSS

Oracle has launched Oracle Autonomous Linux, world's first autonomous operating system to take on cloud giants like Amazon and IBM. Can this be a game ...

ss command is a tool that is used for displaying network socket related information on a Linux system. The tool displays more detailed information that the netstat command which is used for displaying active...

At Red Hat we love to celebrate our people and culture, and it is with great pleasure that we can share that Red Hat in the United Kingdom has been honoured in the Great Place to Work awards, ranking fourth in the UK's Best Workplaces in Tech 2019, large company category.

This week Microsoft not only open-sourced their C++ standard library (STL) but they have also now shipped Cascadia Code...

Intel's new OpenGL Linux driver, their Gallium3D-based "Iris" implementation that is aiming to be the default before year's end, continues making striking progress...

Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman has shared his August 2019 notes where he outlines the frustrations and issues that have come up as a result of init system diversity with some developers still aiming to viably support systemd alternatives within Debian...

Samba 4.11 is out as the latest big feature update to this SMB/CIFS/AD implementation for offering better Windows interoperability with Linux and other platforms. The changes in Samba 4.11 are aplenty that we are a bit surprised it wasn't called Samba 5.0...

Linux Operating System Market 2019-2025: Leading Players – Arch Linux, Linux Mint, IBM, Debian, Fedora Linux  ScoopJunction

The growing IT industry has provided a major boost to the global Linux Operating System market as more people are shifting their preferences to Linux ...

Experts Comments Linux Malware (Skidmap) Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining  ISBuzz News

As part of our experts' comment series, please find below comments from security experts on Linux malware (Skidmap) disguising itself on infected machines for ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 Receive Important Kernel Security Update  Softpedia News

Addresses two security vulnerabilities and two bugs.

Covering tracks — Hiding files on Windows/Linux/MacOS  Security Boulevard

Introduction to hiding files After gaining access to a system, a hacker commonly needs to cover their tracks in order to avoid detection. Many antiviruses operate ...

Oracle Autonomous Linux - 'world's first' autonomous OS announced  TechGenyz

Oracle has announced its world's first autonomous operating system which provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.