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Installing five flavours of Linux on my new laptop: One month on, here's what I've learned  ZDNet

Using Linux on a laptop used to be so tricky and tedious: that's clearly no longer the case.

GNOME 3.34 continues to look like an incredibly great release in the performance department as well as for Wayland users...

Nginx is a very popular high-performance web server that combines the power of reverse proxying, load balancing, caching and so much more. Depending on how it is configured, it can act as a reverse...

Over the last few months, I participated in two keynote panels where people asked questions about open source licensing:

• Do we need to redefine what open source means in the age of the cloud?
• Are cloud vendors abusing open source?
• Will open source, as we know it, survive?

Last year was the most eventful in my memory for the usually very conservative open source licensing space:

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From application deployment to provisioning, Ansible is a powerful open source tool for automating routine IT tasks. It can help an organization's IT run smoothly, with core IT processes networked and maintained. Ansible is an advanced IT orchestration solution, and it can be deployed even over a large, complex network infrastructure.

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Old challenges are new again. In this week's Command Line Heroes podcast (Season 3, Episode 5), that thought comes with a twist of programming languages and platforms.

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I think everyone can agree that the workplace has changed dramatically in the last decade—or is in the process of changing, depending on where you're currently working. The landscape has evolved. Distributed leadership, project-based work models, and cross-functional solution building are commonplace. In essence, the world is going open.

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Lauterbach to support JTAG debug for RISC-V Linux  eeNews Europe

Lauterbach, a Silver Member of the RISC-V Foundation, has announced full JTAG debug support for Linux running on systems based on the RISC-V Open ...

How To Compress Files In Windows, Mac, And Linux?  Fossbytes

Now that you know what is file compression and how to compress a file in Windows, Mac and Linux, you can store files at a much smaller size and save space ...

embedded computing mission-critical Linux  Military & Aerospace Electronics

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Aitech Defense Systems, Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., has ported the open-source Linux operating system onto the company's intelligent ...

Just hours ahead of the Mesa 19.2 feature freeze and days after the RadeonSI OpenGL driver added Renoir support, the RADV Vulkan driver has picked up support for this next-gen Zen 2 + Vega APU...

Adding to another creation being worked on by DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon, DSynth is a C rewrite of the FreeBSD originating Synth program that serves as a custom package repository builder...

If you didn't have a chance to attend our Road Ahead session at Red Hat Summit 2019 (or you did, but want a refresher) you'll want to read on for a quick update. We'll cover where Red Hat OpenStack Platform is today, where we're planning to go tomorrow, and the longer-term plan for Red Hat OpenStack Platform support all the way to 2025. 

Introducing kdevops, modern devops framework for Linux kernel development  Packt Hub

Last Friday, Luis Chamberlain announced the release of kdevops as a Linux kernel development DevOps framework. Chamberlain wrote in his email, “the goal.

Mesa 19.2 was supposed to be branched marking its feature freeze two weeks ago on 6 August along with the issuing of the first release candidate. That milestone has yet to be crossed but should happen tomorrow...

For those using OBS Studio for cross-platform live-streaming and screen recording needs, OBS Studio 24.0 is on the way but out first is their release candidate to vet the new features coming into this big update...

Your Older Chromebook, Chromebox, Or Chromebase Will Run Linux Soon  Android Headlines

The ability to use Linux on a Chromebook is going to be the norm from this year forward but now at least eight much older devices are gaining that.

Gerald Pfeifer Appointed Chair of the openSUSE Board  PRNewswire

NUREMBERG, Germany, Aug. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Seasoned open source leader Gerald Pfeifer has been appointed chair of the openSUSE board.

Gerald Pfeifer Appointed Chair of the openSUSE Board  Yahoo Finance

SUSE CTO in EMEA and open source veteran Pfeifer replaces Richard Brown as chair of openSUSE Board. NUREMBERG, Germany, Aug. 19, 2019 ...

Backdoor found in Webmin, a popular web-based utility for managing Unix servers  ZDNet

Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for more than a year through the official site.