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Linux Kernel 5.3 released: Experimental support for AMD Navi GPU  Tech Lapse

Now that the new Linux Kernel 5.3 has been released, it's time to know what news has been integrated. This new version was announced by Linus Torvalds.

SMARC 2.0 module runs Linux on i.MX8M Mini  LinuxGizmos.com

Congatec's “Conga-SMX8-Mini” SMARC 2.0 module runs Linux on NXP's i.MX8M Mini with up to 4GB LPDDR4 and 128GB eMMC and optional WiFi and -40 to ...

Mozilla announced today they are tightening up the Firefox release cycle even more... Expect to see new Firefox releases monthly...

WeBank will collaborate with global open source community to advance innovative banking with a federated learning framework

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., September 17, 2019 – The Linux Foundation today announced that WeBank is joining at the Gold level. It joins Alibaba, Dell, Facebook, Toyota, Uber and Verizon among other Linux Foundation members at this level.

WeBank is both the first privately-owned bank and the first digital-only bank in China. It was built with technology at its core and is committed to promoting innovative technologies. It recently led the transfer of the FATE (Federated AI Technology Enabler) to the Linux Foundation. FATE is a federated learning framework that fosters collaboration across companies and institutes to perform AI model training and inference in accordance with user privacy, data confidentiality and government regulations.

“WeBank embodies the values and ideals inherent in open source development, things like innovation and collaboration. Its leadership on projects like FATE demonstrate its commitment, and we look forward to its deepening work with Linux Foundation projects and communities,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.

“WeBank understands the value of collaboration and that no one can innovate alone. The Linux Foundation is able to connect us with a diverse community of open source projects and members around the world,” said Tianjian Chen, Deputy General Manager of AI, WeBank.

As a high-tech full-digital bank built on open source software, WeBank aims to initiate a global banking innovation based on open-source software ecosystem. It will initially contribute to FATE, Linux Foundation AI, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, LF Edge and Confidential Computing Consortium.

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Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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First Digital-Only Bank in China Joins Linux Foundation  Yahoo Finance

WeBank will collaborate with global open source community to advance innovative banking with a federated learning frameworkSAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

CentOS 8.0 is coming next week as the long-awaited community rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0. But for those currently maintaining CentOS 7 / EL7, CentOS 7.7 is out today...

AMD EPYC 7302 / 7402 / 7502 / 7742 Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Last month we provided launch-day benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 7502 and 7742 under Linux in both 1P and 2P configurations for these exciting "Rome" Zen ...

Last month we provided launch-day benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 7502 and 7742 under Linux in both 1P and 2P configurations for these exciting "Rome" Zen 2 server processors. For your viewing pleasure today is a fresh look at not only the EPYC 7502 and 7742 processors under the latest Linux 5.3 kernel but we've also expanded it to looking at the EPYC 7302 and EPYC 7402 processors as well with those processors recently being sent over by AMD. Under Ubuntu 19.04 with Linux 5.3, these four different AMD EPYC 7002 series SKUs were benchmarked along with some of the older AMD Naples processors and Intel Xeon Gold/Platinum processors for a fresh look at the Linux server performance.

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3 Ways to disable USB storage devices on Linux  H2S Media

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Earlier this year Canonical announced they would be pulling 32-bit support from Ubuntu ahead of next year's 20.04 LTS. But following public backlash, they stepped back to provide 32-bit support for select packages. Today they announced the 199 32-bit packages that will continue to be supported through Ubuntu 20.04 LTS...

Fedora Linux 31 Beta is here  BetaNews

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 17, 2019 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced enrollment is now open for a new, free, course – Hyperledger Sawtooth for Application Developers.  This course is offered through the edX, the trusted platform for learning.

Blockchain and its potential in the enterprise landscape has received a lot of attention over the past few years. Today, blockchain has become a reality. This revolutionary technology is transforming how organizations do business, across a wide range of industries. 

Hyperledger Sawtooth is an open source project under the Hyperledger umbrella, and works as an enterprise-level blockchain system used for building, deploying, and running distributed ledger applications and networks.

“This is a great course for developers to learn how to develop for Hyperledger Sawtooth and simultaneously learn a simplified supply chain use case. With this course as a basis, developers will be ready to explore on their own deeper into Sawtooth application development or using the supply chain concepts branch out into Hyperledger Grid.”  –Dan Middleton, Head of Technology for Intel’s Blockchain and Distributed Ledger program and Hyperledger Sawtooth Project Maintainer

The Hyperledger Sawtooth for Application Developers (LFS174x) course is designed for experienced developers who want to write applications for the Hyperledger Sawtooth enterprise blockchain platform. Originally developed by Anne Chenette and Darian Plumb at Bitwise IO, the course starts with the basics of blockchain technology and the concepts of permissioned networks, then describes the important features of Hyperledger Sawtooth. 

The course includes a sample distributed application, Sawtooth Simple Supply, based on a simplified supply chain example. This application includes a web-app front end, a transaction processor (the equivalent of a smart contract) for the blockchain business logic, and a custom REST API for communication. Learning how to code this sample application will teach the student about important Hyperledger Sawtooth concepts and will help them understand how to create their own enterprise-level Hyperledger Sawtooth application.

This course will teach the following:

• Blockchain concepts: blockchain structure and process flow, transactions, blocks, hashes and signing, permissions, and consensus
• Hyperledger Sawtooth basics
• Principles of application design for the Hyperledger Sawtooth platform
• Create a full-featured Hyperledger Sawtooth application, using the included Sawtooth Simple Supply application
• Run and troubleshoot an application.

The 2019 Technology Industry Innovation conducted by KPMG focused on the adoption of blockchain technologies suggests that 41 percent of businesses are likely to adopt and implement blockchain into their business operations in the next three years. In addition, the survey revealed 48 percent of enterprises believe blockchain will change the way they conduct and manage their business activities in the near future.

“We’re thrilled to partner with the Linux Foundation to offer this new course in Hyperledger Sawtooth,” said Anant Agarwal, edX CEO and MIT Professor. “edX is committed to providing learners with the career-relevant education they need to succeed professionally, and this course presents the opportunity for experienced developers to learn a cutting-edge platform critical to the rise and adoption of blockchain technology.”

Hyperledger Sawtooth for Application Developers (LFS174x) is available at no cost, with content access for up to 14 weeks. Learners may upgrade to the verified track for $99, which includes all graded assessments, unlimited access to the course content and the ability to earn a Verified Certificate upon passing the course.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Capsule8 Protect Earns HIPAA Compliance Certification  GlobeNewswire

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capsule8 today announced that Capsule8 Protect, its comprehensive protection platform for Linux ...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 is now available as the latest quarterly feature release to our cross-platform, open-source automated benchmarking framework. With Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 comes a rewritten result viewer to offer more result viewing functionality previously only exposed locally via the command-line or through a Phoromatic Server (or OpenBenchmarking.org when results are uploaded), new offline/enterprise usage improvements, various hardware/software detection enhancements on different platforms, and a variety of other additions.

Amid Epstein Controversy, Richard Stallman is Forced to Resign as FSF President  It's FOSS

Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, has resigned as the president and from its board of directors.

Microsoft has begun their next open-source expedition by open-sourcing an important piece of MSVC / Visual Studio... STL, their C++ standard library...

Oracle Autonomous Linux | Latest News on Oracle Autonomous Linux | Breaking Stories and Opinion Articles  Firstpost

Latest News on Oracle-autonomous-linux. Read breaking stories and opinion articles on Oracle Autonomous Linux at Firstpost.

Call me crazy, but Windows 11 could run on Linux  Computerworld

With Microsoft embracing Linux ever more tightly, might it do the heretofore unthinkable and dump the NT kernel in favor of the Linux kernel? No, I'm not ready ...