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Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers  Threatpost

Backdoor was intentionally planted in 2018 and found during the DEF CON 2019 security conference when researchers stumbled upon malicious code.

Going along with Intel this morning announcing their 10th Gen "Comet Lake" processors, Dell has just announced their new XPS line-up with these new processors and it does include a new Linux-loaded Developer Edition laptop...

Earlier this month Intel announced 11 Icelake CPUs for laptops and 2-in1s under their 10th Gen CPU line-up. Today the company announced the 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs also for 2-in-1s and laptops...

Debian Buster-based Netrunner 19.08 'Indigo' KDE-focused Linux distro is the perfect Windows replacement  BetaNews

GNOME is undeniably the best desktop environment, but understandably, not everyone likes it. Hey, that's OK. Some folks like Pepsi despite Coke being, like, ...

Dell's Beautiful New Linux Laptop Features Ubuntu, 10th Gen Intel Processors And Super Fast WiFi  Forbes

Coming soon: The 9th generation XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop featuring Intel's latest Comet Lake hexacore CPU and Ubuntu 18.04 SP1 LTS.

IBM joins Linux Foundation AI to promote open source trusted AI workflows  ZDNet

As AI spreads like wildfire through the enterprise, IBM is stepping up efforts to promote open source tools for building fair, robust and explainable AI systems.

Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera has announced Low-Memory-Monitor as a new project he's been tackling to try to help with the Linux desktop use-cases when responsiveness issues due to low RAM / memory pressure problems. Low-Memory-Monitor paired with complementary solutions could help improve the Linux desktop's handling on low-end systems and other desktops/laptops when simply running short on RAM...

Latest Debian GNU/Linux Security Patch Addresses 14 Vulnerabilities, Update Now  Softpedia News

The Debian Project released a new Linux kernel security update for its stable, supported distributions to address several vulnerabilities that may put users' ...

With Xfce 4.14 having finally been released last week following a four year development cycle, prominent Xfce developer Simon Steinbeiß has begun talking about the now-started Xfce 4.16 development cycle...

AMD has been publishing a lot of documentation recently covering their RDNA architecture used initially by the "Navi" graphics processors. They have published ISA documentation and a slide deck, among other material, while now they have published a higher-level whitepaper covering the architecture...

As a change that will affect Debian 11 "Bullseye" but not the current Debian 10 "Buster" or older is the distribution's decision to remove the old MIPS architecture...

Netrunner 19.08 Linux Distro Released: Get A Beautiful Plasma Experience  Fossbytes

To install Netrunner 19.08 ISO on your computer, you need at least 1GB RAM, 10GB hard disk space, and 128MB graphics memory. The developers of the OS ...

Linux Operating System Market Size, Share and Manufacture Development Analysis Report|IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  League Finals

Los Angeles, United State, August 21, 2019, – The global Linux Operating System market is carefully researched in the report while largely concentrating on top ...

Linux Operating System Market Globally by 2025: Industry Key Players - IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint etc.  Tribune City

Industrial Growth Forecast Report Linux Operating System Market 2019-2025: The Global Linux Operating System Market Report provides Insightful information ...

Thanks to Sony using LLVM Clang as their default compiler toolchain for their PlayStation game console, they continue making improvements to the AMD Btver2/Jaguar code for optimized performance. The Jaguar APU is what's in the current PlayStation 4 while we've already seen contributions from Sony to improve the Zen CPU support ahead of their next-generation console...

EPEL, short for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, is a free and open source repository provided by Fedora team. EPEL provides extra or supplementary software packages for CentOS, RedHat, Oracle Linux & Scientific Linux distros. It...

Recently, I got a rush request to get a three-node Apache Cassandra cluster with a replication factor of two working for a development job. I had little idea what that meant but needed to figure it out quickly—a typical day in a sysadmin's job.

Here's how to set up a basic three-node Cassandra cluster from scratch with some extra bits for replication and future node expansion.

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Open source hardware and 3D printers go together like, well, open source hardware and 3D printers. Not only are 3D printers used to create all sorts of open source hardware—there are also a huge number of 3D printers that have been certified as open source by the Open Source Hardware Association. That fact means that they are freely available to improve and build upon.

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Every product or service has a unique way of handling policy and authorization: who-can-do-what and what-can-do-what. In the cloud-native world, authorization and policy are more complex than ever before. As the cloud-native ecosystem evolves, there’s a growing need for DevOps and DevSecOps teams to identify and address security and compliance issues earlier in development and deployment cycles. Businesses need to release software on the order of minutes (instead of months).

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Global Linux Software Market Research Outlook 2019 | Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, DELL, Microsoft  Herald Writer 24

The Global Linux Software Market Report begins with an all-inclusive introduction to the industry followed by deeply drilling in to certain scenario that is ...