Open-source News

Here is our recap of the most popular content on Phoronix for Q3. This is also the first time any one vendor has nearly dominated the charts thanks to multiple successful product launches and growing embrace for Linux/open-source...

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 5.3 Is Now Available for Download  LXer

The best Linux apps for your Chromebook  Android Police

The Linux kernel will begin doing a basic sanity check of x86_64 CPUs with the RdRand instruction to see if it's at least returning "random looking" data otherwise warn the user at boot time. This stems from a recent issue where AMD's RdRand behavior with some hardware (particularly, buggy motherboards) could have borked RdRand issues...

Following Buggy AMD RdRand, The Linux Kernel Will Begin Sanity Checking Randomness At Boot Time  Phoronix

File Commander is an open source file manager for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks Technology News

Samba 4.11 was just released a few weeks back with big scalability improvements, but looking ahead to Samba 4.12 will be some big performance improvements for those leveraging encryption...

Command to install nodejs & NPM on CentOS 8 Linux  H2S Media

Microsoft Surface Duo shows Linux is the future — not Windows  BetaNews

Intel Reveals USB 4 Linux Kernel Support Patches  Tom's Hardware

Intel Reveals USB 4 Linux Kernel Support Patches  Tom's Hardware

Disable IPV6 | How to disable IPV6 - Linux, Android, iOS, Mac & Windows  proprivacy.com

Redgate extends SQL Compare to provide Linux Command Line Interface and support for SQL Server 2019  Cambridge Network

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 5.3 Is Now Available for Download  Softpedia News

How to quickly deploy a honeypot with Kali Linux  TechRepublic

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 Receive Important Kernel Security Update  Softpedia News

6WIND Announces 6WINDGate 5.0 Source Code for Linux Networking Containers, Linux Transparency, NETCONF/YANG Management and Arm Support  PRNewswire

6WIND Announces 6WINDGate 5.0 Source Code for Linux Networking Containers, Linux Transparency, NETCONF/YANG Management and Arm Support  Yahoo Finance

Best Linux Certifications for 2019 - Cleared & Certified  ClearanceJobs

Given the recent AMD "ABBA" Ryzen 3000 boost fix, the upcoming release of Ubuntu 19.10 powered by Linux 5.3, here is a fresh round of AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Intel Core i9 9900K benchmarks in a side-by-side matchup . It's just not any comparison but our largest i9-9900K vs. 3900X comparison ever: 112 gaming benchmarks and 321 system/CPU benchmarks carried out for our most extensive look yet at how these ~$500 CPUs are competing in this fierce race.