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Trimming systemd Halved The Boot Time On A PocketBeagle ARM Linux Board  Phoronix

How a months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend  Ars Technica

How a months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend  Ars Technica

AMD open-source developer Marek Olšák is landing the last of his changes for the Mesa 19.3 imminent feature freeze...

What's Driving in Linux Operating System Market which is Growing during the Forecast Period 2019-2025: Focusing on Key Players like IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux  Market Expert

Microsoft’s Linux-based Azure Sphere will be generally available in February of 2020  MSPoweruser

Containers have taken the world by storm. Whether you think of Kubernetes, Docker, CoreOS, Silverblue, or Flatpak when you hear the term, it's clear that modern applications are running in containers for convenience, security, and scalability.

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Everybody knows sudo, right? This tool is installed by default on most Linux systems and is available for most BSD and commercial Unix variants. Still, after talking to hundreds of sudo users, the most common answer I received was that sudo is a tool to complicate life.

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After you've established a positive reputation in an open community—hopefully, as we discussed in our previous article, by being an active member in and contributing productively to that community—you'll have built up a healthy "bank balance" of credibility you can use to influence the direction of that community.

What does this mean in concrete terms? It means you can contribute to the decisions the community makes.

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I have been using Python since it was a little-known language in 1998. It was a time when Perl was quite popular in the open source world, but I believed in Python from the moment I found it. My parents like to remind me that I used to say things like, "Python is going to be a big deal" and "I'll be able to find a job using it one day." It took a while, but my predictions came true.

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IOTA, Linux and Dell collaborate for crypto data security  Cryptopolitan

The "AST" DRM/KMS display driver that can be used with the many servers supporting ASpeed display hardware now has work pending for atomic mode-setting...

With Mesa 19.3 embarking on its feature freeze this week unless the period is extended, Intel developers have been working on landing more of their Gen12 graphics code into this release for future Tiger Lake CPUs as well as the basis for their first Xe discrete graphics card...

You're facing performance challenges and the need to migrate legacy services to a more modern system that offers automation and agility, what do you do? Some companies turn to Red Hat to help amp up their infrastructure and break down barriers to digital transformation, like Helvetia, Siemens, and Datacom. Let's take a look at how these companies improved their IT by working with Red Hat.

With Ubuntu 19.10 it's the first time we have seen the Radeon gaming performance under a GNOME Wayland session match or exceed the performance found under the default GNOME X.Org session...

Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: 'They're not going away.'  ZDNet

Iota, Dell and Linux Developing Platform to Rate Data Trustworthiness  Cointelegraph

While we have seen a lot of open-source AMD Linux graphics driver patches for Renoir and that initial support within the 5.4 kernel, support for this 2020 APU platform is still maturing. The newest work on the Linux upbringing for Renoir is enabling the "DMCUB" support...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Prepping "DMCUB" Support For Renoir APUs  Phoronix

Building off yesterday's DXVK 1.4.4 release, D9VK 0.30 is out as the similar project that implements the Direct3D 9 API atop Vulkan...