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Kasten Raises $14 Million For App Backup And Recovery Services - Linux.com

Google News - Wed, 08/14/2019 - 00:51
Kasten Raises $14 Million For App Backup And Recovery Services  Linux.com

Kasten, which bills itself as an enterprise-scale and cloud-native data management company, today announced that it's raised $14 million in series A funding led ...

Kasten Raises $14 Million For App Backup And Recovery Services

Linux.com - Wed, 08/14/2019 - 00:47

Kasten, which bills itself as an enterprise-scale and cloud-native data management company, today announced that it’s raised $14 million in series A funding led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $17 million to date. CEO Niraj Tolia says the infusion will accelerate the growth of the Los Altos, California-based startup’s sales, engineering, and marketing departments and the expansion of its research and development center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

NVIDIA Continues To Be Involved With Making Vulkan More Appropriate For Machine Learning

Phoronix - Wed, 08/14/2019 - 00:41
NVIDIA engineers continue to be among those in the Vulkan technical sub-group working to advance machine learning for this API...

Taashee Linux Services Joins Bright Computing Partner Program - HPCwire

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 22:15
Taashee Linux Services Joins Bright Computing Partner Program  HPCwire

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, August 13, 2019 — Today, Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software, ...

Fedora Developers Discuss Ways To Improve Linux Interactivity In Low-Memory Situations

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 21:25
Similar to the recent upstream Linux kernel discussions over the poor Linux desktop experience when in memory pressure situations particularly with systems having limited amounts of RAM, Fedora developers are discussing ways to improve this experience as well...

Fedora Developers Discuss Ways To Improve Linux Interactivity In Low-Memory Situations - Phoronix

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 21:25
Fedora Developers Discuss Ways To Improve Linux Interactivity In Low-Memory Situations  Phoronix

Similar to the recent upstream Linux kernel discussions over the poor Linux desktop experience when in memory pressure situations particularly with systems ...

Get Trained and Certified on Cloud Native Technologies with Linux Foundation [70% Off] - It's FOSS

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 21:14
Get Trained and Certified on Cloud Native Technologies with Linux Foundation [70% Off]  It's FOSS

Get trained and certified on trending IT technologies with Linux Foundation, the official organization behind Linux. Get 70% off on Cloud Native training.

Essential Developer Guide for Building Blockchain Applications Using Hyperledger Sawtooth

Linux.com - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 21:07
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Oracle's Kernel Test Framework Might Be Added To The Linux Kernel Tree

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 20:12
Knut Omang of Oracle is working on integrating the Kernel Test Framework into the Linux kernel source tree/repository...

Oracle's Kernel Test Framework Might Be Added To The Linux Kernel Tree - Phoronix

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 20:12
Oracle's Kernel Test Framework Might Be Added To The Linux Kernel Tree  Phoronix

Knut Omang of Oracle is working on integrating the Kernel Test Framework into the Linux kernel source tree/repository. The Kernel Test Framework is used for ...

Leading Barcode Software Introduces Barcode Creation on Linux, Polymer Web Components and Excel Custom Functions - PR Web

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 19:04
Leading Barcode Software Introduces Barcode Creation on Linux, Polymer Web Components and Excel Custom Functions  PR Web

Singapore (PRWEB) August 13, 2019 -- ConnectCode, a world leading provider of barcode fonts and software, today announced the release of a new version ...

Mir 1.4 Released With Fix For GTK3, Support For Exclusive Zones

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 19:01
The Canonical team led by Alan Griffiths for maintaining the Mir display server with Wayland support today rolled out Mir version 1.4...

Qt PDF Being Discussed For Qt 5.14

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 18:48
Being evaluated for Qt 5.14 is shipping Qt PDF that allows PDF documents to be rendered/viewed inside QWidget-based applications...

Leaving Windows 7? Here are some non-Windows options. - Computerworld

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 18:00
Leaving Windows 7? Here are some non-Windows options.  Computerworld

If you're not feeling too comfortable about Windows 10 as Windows 7 comes to the end of its days, there are alternatives.

Fix for no sound issue on Linux when using headphones - Ghacks Technology News

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 17:02
Fix for no sound issue on Linux when using headphones  Ghacks Technology News

Find out how to fix a no sound issue on Linux when headphones don't play any sound on Linux devices while connected to the system.

Building a non-breaking breakpoint for Python debugging

opensource.com - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 15:12

This is the story of how our team at Rookout built non-breaking breakpoints for Python and some of the lessons we learned along the way. I'll be presenting all about the nuts and bolts of debugging in Python at PyBay 2019 in San Francisco this month. Let's dig in.

The heart of Python debugging: sys.set_trace

There are many Python debuggers out there. Some of the more popular include:


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To equip tomorrow's cybersecurity experts, we'll need an open approach

opensource.com - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 15:02

Today's world—marked by an increase of Internet-connected devices, digital assets, and information systems infrastructure—demands more cybersecurity professionals. Cybersecurity is the practice of defending these devices, assets, and systems against malicious cyberattacks from both internal and external entities. Often these cyberattacks are linked to cybercrimes, or crimes committed using a computer to generate profit or to affect the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of the data or system.


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A comprehensive guide to agile project management

opensource.com - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 15:01

With a focus on continuous improvements, agile project management upends the traditional linear way of developing products and services. Increasingly, organizations are adopting agile project management because it utilizes a series of shorter development cycles to deliver features and improve continually. This management style allows for rapid development, continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (CD).


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NVIDIA Publishes GPU Hardware Documentation - Linux.com

Google News - Tue, 08/13/2019 - 15:00
NVIDIA Publishes GPU Hardware Documentation  Linux.com

NVIDIA is releasing freely-available hardware interface documentation to assist in the development of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver (Nouveau).

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