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For those on the hunt for another lightweight Wayland compositor option, TAIWINS is the newest option...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2020 Edition — Krebs on Security  Krebs on Security

As a systems engineer, I spend a lot of time in data centers configuring servers and other computer equipment. Two of the items I keep in my toolkit are an RS-232 serial-to-USB converter and a standard DB-9 serial cable. These can be indispensable when you have no other way to access a device. You may need to deploy a new router that has not yet been configured for your network. You might need to troubleshoot a firewall appliance that has become inaccessible via SSH.

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A good amount of my day-to-day involves creating, modifying, and deploying Helm charts to manage the deployment of applications. Helm is an application package manager for Kubernetes, which coordinates the download, installation, and deployment of apps. Helm charts are the way we can define an application as a collection of related Kubernetes resources. 

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In a recent article, I mentioned my 2020 New Year's resolution: no more loops in Java. In that article, I chose a common (and simplified) forest management calculation—determining whether an area is forested, based on a legal definition, by calculating the proportion of ground shaded by tree canopies.

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Memcached is an opensource, high-performance, and superfast in-memory key-value store that is designed for speeding up web applications. Among the popular web applications that rely on Memcached include FaceBook, Reddit, and Twitter. In this...

Kali Linux 2020.2 Released: Here's What's New For Ethical Hackers  Fossbytes

Kali Linux 2020.2 Released with Dark and Light KDE Plasma Themes  Softpedia News

DEVICE.FARM Generates Raspbian/Armbian Docker Images for about 100 Arm Linux SBCs  CNX Software

Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning The War Of The NOSes?  The Next Platform

Huawei denies involvement in buggy Linux kernel patch proposal  ZDNet

Indie Monster-Collecting RPG Cassette Beasts Announced for PC, Linux, and Nintendo Switch  Niche Gamer

OpenZFS / ZFS On Linux 0.8.4 is out as the latest update to this leading open-source ZFS file-system base for Linux and FreeBSD and coming together as well for macOS...

Yes, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet will run Linux apps  Chrome Unboxed

Coreboot 4.12 is out today as the latest version of this open-source BIOS / system firmware implementation that saw more than 2,600 commits since the previous release...

How to Search the Web from Linux Terminal  stopthefud

Out-of-date, insecure open-source software is everywhere  ZDNet

How do I compare AWS Lambda vs. Azure Functions for serverless?  TechTarget

Initial AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Linux Performance Is Very Good  Phoronix

Since AMD Renoir laptops began shipping some weeks ago, I've been on the hunt for an interesting laptop to pick up for Linux testing and to potentially even use as my next main production laptop. Given the successes of AMD Zen 2 on the desktop and server front, I've been very eager to try out a Renoir laptop and last week picked up a Lenovo IdeaPad with Ryzen 7 4700U and the experience so far has been very good and with captivating Linux performance.