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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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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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South Korea To Replace Windows 7 With Linux-Based Open OS  Fossbytes

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...

Not yet mainlined in the Linux kernel but currently queued as part of the x86/cpu changes for next round is the ability for the kernel to detect split locks and either warn the offending applications or kill the processes...

The Linux Kernel Will Be Able To Detect Split-Locks To Then Warn Or Kill Offending Apps  Phoronix

Now promoted out of beta is the Google Chrome 80 web browser...

Fuzzing is an important means of finding unintended/invalid behavior within software and now there exists a fuzzer for providing Spectre-type vulnerabilities...

Intel firmware expert Brian Richardson was at FOSDEM 2020 to talk up UEFI Capsule Update functionality and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for allowing OEMs/ODMs to easily distribute firmware updates to Linux users for application with the Fwupd firmware updating utility...

The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates  Phoronix

How to install a GUI for Linux apps on your Chromebook  TechRepublic

1. Nasty Linux, macOS sudo bug found and fixed  ZDNet
2. Linux and macOS PCs hit by serious Sudo vulnerability  TechRadar
3. Serious flaw that lurked in sudo for 9 years hands over root privileges  Ars Technica
4. Sudo Flaw Grants Root Privileges | Decipher  Decipher
5. Nasty Linux, macOS sudo bug found and resolved  Mash Viral
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Nasty Linux, macOS sudo bug found and fixed  ZDNet

With last month's release of the Radeon RX 5600 XT as quite a capable sub-$300 graphics card there was a new video BIOS at launch-day to significantly improve the performance even more. But that updated vBIOS was causing issues with the Linux driver. The necessary fix has now landed in linux-firmware.git as the necessary SMC firmware update for Navi...

Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update  Phoronix

Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update  Phoronix

Rav1e v0.2 brought 40~70% speed improvements over its previous release for this Rustlang-based AV1 video encoder but the upcoming Rav1e 0.3 will be even faster...

Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G Is A Great Intel Workstation Motherboard For Linux/BSD Systems Review  Phoronix

For those building an Intel Core X-series system, the Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G is the board we have been relying upon for our Cascadelake-X testing over the past two months and it has continued working out phenomenally for being a feature-rich platform while playing nicely with the various Linux distributions and BSDs tested.

Siemens continues investing in Jailhouse as a Linux-based simplicity-minded partitioning hypervisor catering to bare metal appliances. Jailhouse 0.12 is out today as their first feature update since last summer and comes with numerous hardware support improvements and new features...