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Emmabuntüs Is a Hidden Linux Gem  LinuxInsider.com

Emmabuntüs is a great find if you are looking for an all-around Linux operating system that keeps legacy computers out of the trash heap and is easy to use with ...

The 2 most private & secure Linux distros | Linux privacy for beginners  proprivacy.com

Linux Operating systems are better for privacy and security than their Mac and Windows counterparts. They are also open source, which means they are much ...

Icinga 2 Version 2.11 Release Candidate Announced, Pinebook Pro Available for Pre-Order, Sailfish OS 3.1 Seitseminen Released, VirtualBox 6.0.10 Is Out, and It's National Sysadmin Day  Linux Journal

News briefs for July 26, 2019. The Icinga team announces a release candidate for Icinga 2 version 2.11. Main improvements in Icinga 2.11 include a rewritten ...

Linux Operating System Market to See Huge Growth by 2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Market News Reports

HTF MI released a new market study on Southeast Asia Linux Operating System Market with 100+ market data Tables, Pie Chat, Graphs & Figures spread ...

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Performance On AMD Ryzen 9 3900X  Phoronix

For those wondering how the performance compares of AMD's new Zen 2 processors between Windows 10 and Linux, here are our initial benchmarks across ...

For those wondering how the performance compares of AMD's new Zen 2 processors between Windows 10 and Linux, here are our initial benchmarks across dozens of benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X on Windows 10 Pro 1903 against Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.

How to Use the rev Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Linux's rev command reverses strings of text. This command can operate either on provided text or a file, and it seems deceptively simple. But like many ...

LibreELEC 9.2 ALPHA Kodi-focused Linux distro now available for PC, Raspberry Pi 4, and more!  BetaNews

If you are someone that uses LibreELEC to consume media, I have some really good news -- 9.2 ALPHA is here! Yes, the Kodi-focused Linux distribution has a ...

Simplifying Function Tracing for the Modern GCC  Linux Journal

Steven Rostedt wanted to do a little housekeeping, specifically with the function tracing code used in debugging the kernel. Up until then, the kernel could ...

Two months from today marks the beta and kernel freezes for the Ubuntu 19.10 release while in less than one month is already the feature freeze. Canonical developers and others within the Ubuntu community remain quite busy this summer working on this "Eoan Ermine" release and is of particular importance with next cycle being the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS swing...

While a bit quiet over the summer months and their Data Parallel C++ announcement was recently made, Intel's LLVM-based SYCL compiler continues maturing and picking up new features as the beta roll-out of oneAPI is expected in Q4...

OpenGL is still evolving and days ahead of SIGGRAPH 2019, NVIDIA has published a set of new GL extensions for improving multi-GPU rendering...

New Raspberry Pi laptop rival: $200 Linux-based Pinebook Pro available to pre-order  ZDNet

Linux fans get a new cheap laptop to mess around with powered by the popular Rockchip RK3399.

Elementary, my dear: How to revive an old PC with elementary OS  Computerworld

One of the easiest ways to get more out of an old or underpowered system is to free it from Windows and install Linux software instead. An excellent alternative ...

Sysadmins spend a lot of time preventing and fixing problems. There are certainly times when a sysadmin becomes a hero, whether to their team, department, company, or the general public, though the people they "saved" from trouble may never even know.

Enjoy these two stories from the community on sysadmin heroics. What does it mean to you?

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Raspberry Pi Rival Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop  Hot Hardware

The Pinebook Pro is said to offer performance comparable to that of the newly released Raspberry Pi 4, and features a hexa-core Rockchip RX3399 ARM64 ...

Sysadmins are the heartbeat of many open source projects around the world. What would we do without them? 

So, once a year—or more if you're working on a team with a great outlook on life and positive culture—we take time out of our busy lives to say thank you.

"Thanks for all the stress, overtime, and dedication to the mission(s), me!" —Jim Salter

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Angular is an open-source, popular and highly-extensible front-end application development framework, used for building mobile and web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other common languages. Angular is an umbrella term for all Angular versions that...

Zink is the year-old project implementing OpenGL over Vulkan using Mesa/Gallium3D infrastructure. While Zink had been making some good progress by developer Erik Faye-Lund of Collabora, he went back to rewriting some core pieces of Zink to address some design defects. In the process of this rewrite, Zink is currently back to OpenGL 2.1 era support over Vulkan...

Intel Mini PCs Linux Performance Comparison  CNX Software

We've compared some Intel Gemini Lake & Broadwell mini PCs Linux performance with phoronix, sbc-bench.sh, and other benchmarks.