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There has been a lot of talk recently of AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors reportedly not hitting their boost clock frequencies, whether stock coolers are adequate for hitting the boost frequencies, and other concerns around the boost behavior on these new Zen 2 processors. AMD issued a statement today they are rolling out a new BIOS/firmware update to help with boost clock frequency optimizations...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Adding to the growing list of features for Linux 5.4 with its cycle officially kicking off in mid-September is a kernel scheduler optimization designed to improve load balancing on AMD EPYC servers...

Oreboot has been in development for a number of months now and while at first may have sounded like a novelty downstream of Coreboot is now proving its usefulness and taking shape...

Crypto Mining Malware Targeting Linux Servers  ISBuzz News

It has been reported that a coin-mining malware infection previously only seen on Arm-powered IoT devices has made the jump to Intel systems. Akamai senior ...

The third and likely final development milestone release ahead of this month's Phoronix Test Suite 9.0-Asker release is now available for cross-platform, fully-automated benchmarking...

Best lightweight Linux server Distros without GUI  H2S Media

Few handfuls and best Linux distros those can be used as a lightweight and small server OS for home, office or commercial use without GUI for webserver etc.

Systemd 243 finally shipped this morning as the latest major update to this widely used Linux init system...

Linux Operating System Market Analysis & Forecast 2019|IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  League Finals

Los Angeles, United State, September 3, 2019, – – The report comes out as an intelligent and thorough assessment tool as well as a great resource that will help ...

Even as we approach 2020, many Linux distributions and various desktop programs still isn't fully optimized for today's modern HiDPI screens. Fortunately for users of Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, their next update will further improve its HiDPI support...

UPower is the abstraction layer around batteries and other power devices on Linux. Even with it being years since it was known as DeviceKit-power and seeing many 0.99 updates, the UPower 1.0 release isn't there yet but at least UPower 0.99.11 is now available as their first release since February...

Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Security Updates for All Supported Ubuntu OSes  Softpedia News

Ubuntu 19.04, 18.04 LTS, and 16.04 LTS are affected.

Crypto-mining malware leaps to Intel-powered Linux systems  SC Magazine UK

A coin-mining malware infection has made a leap from Arm-powered internet of things (IoT) devices to Intel systems. Share. A coin-mining malware infection has ...

Linux on your laptop: Here's what you need to know about UEFI firmware  ZDNet

Understanding UEFI firmware, and the Linux utilities to manage it, can save you a lot of time and trouble.

Take the Power of Linux with You on the Go with This Bite-Sized Computer  Interesting Engineering

Take the power of Linux with you wherever you go with a VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle for just $69—over 10% off its usual price for a limited time.

Kali Linux 2019.3 released and Kali Linux NetHunter updated for mobile devices  Geeky Gadgets

The third release of Kali Linux 2019 has now been made available for download bringing with it a wide variety of new features, enhancements and updates to.

Kali Linux 2019.3 Released For Ethical Hacking Enthusiasts  Fossbytes

The exisiting users of Kali can simply perform the update to the latest version with a simple apt -y full-upgrade command. You only need to download a *fresh* ISO ...

Shell scripting is an essential discipline for anyone in a sysadmin type of role, and the predominant shell in which people write scripts today is Bash. Bash comes as default on nearly all Linux distributions and modern MacOS versions and is slated to be a native part of Windows Terminal soon enough. Bash, you could say, is everywhere.

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Apache ActiveMQ is a flexible and powerful open-source multi-protocol message broker built using Java. A message broker mediates communication among applications by translating a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to...

English essayist and politician Joseph Addison once said, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Today, most (if not all) of us are training our brains by reading text on computer monitors, television screens, mobile devices, street signs, newspapers, magazines, and papers at work or school.

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