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Linux 5.6 Continues Work On Intel VT-d Nested Mode Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 22:38
The IOMMU changes have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.6 kernel merge window...

Bareflank Hypervisor 2.0 Released With UEFI Support, New Memory Manager

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 20:36
The Bareflank Linux hypervisor that is written in modern C++ and focused on security and serving as a framework/SDK for other hypervisors, finally experienced its big 2.0 release...

Systemd 245 Shipping Soon With Systemd-Homed, Systemd-Repart Partitioner

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 20:22
Systemd 245 is soon shipping as the first feature update of 2020 and it's another big one...

Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 20:15
Oreboot is the effort that has been taking shape over the past year as an open-source focused, Rustlang-based downstream of Coreboot. Oreboot continues advancing in its own right concurrent to the wonderful Coreboot advancements...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 2 Released With Result Viewer Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 19:31
The second test release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 is now available with this latest update focusing on improvements to the result viewer...

Red Hat Talks Up debuginfod As The New Debug Info Web Server

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 16:25
Debuginfod is the new ELFUTILS HTTP web server for providing debug information or even source code on-demand to debuggers and related development utilities...

Getting started with GnuCash

opensource.com - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 16:02

For the past four years, I've been managing my personal finances with GnuCash, and I'm quite satisfied with it. The open source (GPL v3) project has been growing and improving since its initial release in 1998, and the latest version, 3.8, released in December 2019, adds many improvements and bug fixes.


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OpenCensus to monitor your Kubernetes cluster

opensource.com - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 16:01

In my last article in this series, I introduced monitoring with Prometheus, the leading open source metric instrumentation, collection, and storage toolkit. While Prometheus has become the de facto standard for monitoring Kubernetes for many users, there may be reasons why you might choose another approach for metric telemetry.


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Introducing a cheat sheet for open source software alternatives

opensource.com - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 16:00

It can be frustrating when a mainstream software tool is proprietary. This is a common problem at work. Many companies default to Slack for chat, Adobe Photoshop for creative editing, and Salesforce for customer relationship management. We are faced with this issue at home, too. Our friends and family are likely to use the most popular social media platforms which tend to be closed source. With tax season coming up here in the United States, we are reminded that the go-to home finance software is proprietary. 


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How to Install Mate Desktop in Arch Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 13:46
MATE, pronounced as ‘matey’ is a lightweight, simple and intuitive desktop environment that can be installed on most Linux distributions to give that smooth and appealing look. It’s easily customizable and easy on resource...

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