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3 open source tools for sticking to a budget

opensource.com - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 15:00

In light of changing economical times in many countries around the world right now, you may find yourself wanting to revamp or improve your financial situation and your understanding of it. Or, perhaps one of your New Year's resolutions was to start budgeting? You are not alone.


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There Is Finally Work To Allow Sysctl Parameters To Be Set From The Linux Kernel Command

Phoronix - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 12:07
File this under the "I can't believe it took this long" or "why wasn't this done before" section... Thanks to SUSE, there are finally patches pending to allow easily setting sysctl parameters from the kernel command line using a generic infrastructure...

Oracle Engineers Send Out Linux Patches For Trenchboot Secure Late-Launch Kernel Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 06:46
Going back to over a year ago were discussions by Oracle engineers and others about a secure launch boot protocol for the Linux kernel to in turn tie into the Trenchboot open-source project working on various system integrity features. We are now finally seeing new patches out of Oracle for wiring more Trenchboot support into the Linux kernel...

Fedora Adopts A New Vision Statement

Phoronix - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 04:30
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has sent out a reminder to Fedora contributors to "be excellent to each other" while announcing the project has a new vision statement...

OpenJDK 8/11 vs. GraalVM 20 vs. Amazon Corretto JVM Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 02:00
Following last week's benchmarks of OpenJDK 8 through the newly-released OpenJDK 14 JVM benchmarks, some Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing Java benchmarks with Oracle's GraalVM as well as Amazon's Corretto JVM implementations. Here are some benchmarks of those benchmarks up against OpenJDK both for Java 8 and Java 11 releases.

Cloudflare Improving Linux Disk Encryption Performance - Doubling The Throughput

Phoronix - Wed, 03/25/2020 - 23:37
Cloudflare employs Linux disk encryption on their servers and with some optimizations have made it at least two times faster throughput while also lowering the latency...

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