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Debian 10.1 along with Debian 9.10 are expected to be released on 7 September...

LLVM stable point release manager Tom Stellard has released LLVM 8.0.1 as the first minor update to this spring's LLVM 8.0 code-base...

NordVPN offers NordLynx for Linux, built around WireGuard - Open Source Insider  ComputerWeekly.com

Virtual Private Network (VPN) company NordVPN has introduced NordLynx technology built around the WireGuard protocol. WireGuard is thought to be shaking ...

Best Linux training providers and online courses 2019  TechRadar

We highlight the most impressive training courses which focus on introducing Linux to newcomers.

Best Linux training providers and online courses 2019  TechRadar

We highlight the most impressive training courses which focus on introducing Linux to newcomers.

Best Linux training providers and online courses 2019  TechRadar

We highlight the most impressive training courses which focus on introducing Linux to newcomers.

Best Linux training providers  TechRadar

We highlight the most impressive training courses which focus on introducing Linux to newcomers.

Linus Torvalds released Linux 5.3-rc3 on Sunday night and it was to his surprise that it was even smaller than the previous week's release candidate...

New Linux driver signals Intel Xe iGPU+dGPU multi-GPU support  Notebookcheck.net

Intel's upcoming Xe GPUs will feature support for multi-GPU setups, according to a recent Linux kernel driver update. Xe will be able to form hybrid GPU pairs ...

Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Released: Here's What's New and How to Get it  It's FOSS

Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” has been released. See what's new in it and learn how to upgrade to Linux Mint 19.2. Recently, the Linux Mint team announced the ...

If you’re on your way to work, but you stop by a deli for breakfast first, you don’t go back home after breakfast so you can restart your journey. Instead, you continue from where you are because you understand where your office is located relative to your current location. Navigating your computer is the same way. If you change your working directory in a terminal to a subdirectory, such as Pictures, you don’t necessarily have to go home again just to make your way into Documents. Instead, you use a relative path.

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In our second monthly Ansible Around The Web, we're sharing a smorgasbord of useful Ansible information for your delectation. Read on to find stories and videos relating to databases, security, VMware, Infoblox, and Windows!

If you find an interesting Ansible story on your travels, please send us the link via Mark on Twitter, and the Ansible Community team will curate the best submissions.

On with the show…

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Open source software has come a long way since the Open Source Initiative was founded in February 1998. Back then, the thought of releasing source code anyone could change scared many commercial software vendors. Now, according to Red Hat's 2019 State of Enterprise Open Source survey, 99% of IT leaders say open source software plays at least a "somewhat important" role in their enterprise IT strategy.

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A “LEMP” stack is a mixture of open-source software that is typically installed on a Linux server to deploy dynamic applications. This term is an acronym that represents the Linux operating system, Nginx web...

IWD is the multi-year effort by Intel's open-source group to create a new Linux wireless daemon that could potentially replace WPA-Supplicant. IWD 0.19 is the new release available that arrived at the end of the weekend and carrying new features...

If all goes well Mesa 19.1.4 will be released on Tuesday as the newest stable point release to this collection of OpenGL/Vulkan drivers for Linux systems. Mesa 19.1.4 is bringing around four dozen patches that accumulated over the later half of July and it's particularly heavy on Intel ANV and Radeon RADV Vulkan driver fixes...

Intel clarifies on US$200 Intel Xe GPUs, new Linux driver signals Xe iGPU+dGPU multi-GPU support  Notebookcheck.net

Intel clarified on Raja Koduri's recent interview with a Russian YouTube channel saying that his actual statements about Xe GPUs were lost in translation.

Debian's annual developer conference, DebConf, wrapped up last week in Curitiba, Brasil. The slide decks and video recordings for many of those presentations are now available...

Currently when passing "-flto" for enabling Link-Time Optimizations with the GCC compiler, it defaults to using a single core/thread for carrying out the optimizations and code generation. There has been support for specifying a number of threads to use for carrying out this link-time work in parallel while finally in GCC 10 that is being enabled by default...

Monado as an open-source implementation of the Khronos OpenXR standard for AR/VR devices continues taking form though isn't quite ready yet for end-users...