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Cloud-init is a standard—it would not be a stretch to say it is the standard—that cloud providers use to provide initialization and configuration data to cloud instances. It is used most often on the first boot of a new instance to automate network setup, account creation, and SSH (secure shell) key installation—anything required to bring a new system online so that it is accessible by the user.

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Business Outline of Linux Software Market 2020- 2025 To Surge in The Near Future  GroundAlerts.com

World’s first AMD-only Linux laptop revealed  MyBroadband

Embedded Linux Market Industry Size, Share Analysis, Top Players Eyeing to Penetrate Into Emerging Nations with Untapped Opportunities and COVID-19 Impact Analysis 2020-2027  Cole of Duty

This improvement was officially released and published on March 15, 2020, with Version 2.0.0 and distributed on the GitHub site. The much appreciated Rdiff-backup application allows users to back up a directory to another...

Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack Linux) announced the release of Kali Linux Version 2020.2 on May 12th, 2020. Kali Linux is a Debian based distribution specially focused on penetration testing and digital forensics...

Windows 10 moves closer to 'true' Linux with graphical support for WSL2  Channel Asia Singapore

Linux-creator Linus Torvalds joins Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips in embracing AMD over Intel  BetaNews

An interesting anecdote shared in today's Linux 5.7-rc7 announcement is word that Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds switched his main rig over to an AMD Ryzen Threadripper...

While last week's Linux 5.7-rc6 kernel was quite big, Linux 5.7-rc7 is out today and it's on the smaller side of things in reassuring Linus Torvalds that the stable release of this kernel can happen soon...

What happens when you run Linux on a toaster?  DataCenterNews Asia

What happens when you run Linux on a toaster?  IT Brief Australia

Linux Work Culminating On A "READFILE" Syscall For Reading Small Files Efficiently  Phoronix

Stemming from recent kernel discussions over a hypothetical new system call for reading small files more efficiently, Greg Kroah-Hartman has been working on the readfile() system call and it's looking like it is taking shape well enough to premiere soon in a new mainline kernel release...

Tuxedo Book BA15 is a Linux laptop with Ryzen 5 3500U for $935 and up  Liliputing

A Closer Look At Azure Arc – Microsoft’s Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Platform  Forbes

Switching from MacBook to Chromebook: Is Chrome OS good enough?  Android Police

For those AMD Ryzen laptop users eager to see the Sensor Fusion Hub driver for supporting the different hardware sensors on these AMD Zen laptops, that driver still isn't going to be merged for the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle even after the patches were first published months ago...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Support Is Not Coming With Linux 5.8  Phoronix

While modern AMD EPYC CPUs support Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel more recently has been working on MKTME for similarly offering hardware-backed total memory encryption, an Intel open-source engineer has now proposed a software-based solution for protected memory support for KVM virtualization...