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The x86 platform driver updates were sent in and already merged for the ongoing Linux 5.3 kernel. It's the x86 platform driver updates that bring the recently mentioned Intel Speed Select Technology for Linux driver but there is also more...

It’s been nearly four years since our landmark announcement that brought Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Microsoft’s powerful global cloud, Azure, and since then we have continued to strengthen the Red Hat Microsoft alliance and reach new milestones. 

Last week, we announced the IBM acquisition of Red Hat. It is a monumental deal, one that will enable us to work together to help customers deliver any app, anywhere, to realize the true value of the hybrid cloud.

Epic Games Awards Open Source 3D Creation Tool Blender With $1.2 Million  Linux.com

Epic Games has announced that they have donated $1.2 million in cash towards the Blender Project, an open source tool to create 3D graphics animation and ...

Aqua Security Launches Microsoft Azure Marketplace Private Offers  Linux.com

Aqua Security has announced a new Private Offer for software licensing and procurement directly through Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Software purchased ...

Aqua Security Launches Microsoft Azure Marketplace Private Offers  Linux.com

Aqua Security has announced a new Private Offer for software licensing and procurement directly through Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Software purchased ...

Aqua Security has announced a new Private Offer for software licensing and procurement directly through Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Software purchased directly from Aqua can easily be installed on Azure while still taking advantage of streamlined deployment through the Azure Marketplace.  The Aqua Cloud-Native Security Platform (CSP) now offers full support for the widest range of Microsoft cloud-native technologies including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI) and the Azure Functions serverless compute service. 

Remember last September when that AMD Arcturus codename dropped in our forums for what at first appeared to be a successor to Navi but later clarified to be used as a Linux driver enablement codename? Well, the Linux kernel driver patches for this "Arcturus" GPU have just been posted...

AMD Sends Out Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "Arcturus" As New Vega Derived GPU  Phoronix

Remember last September when that AMD Arcturus codename dropped in our forums for what at first appeared to be a successor to Navi but later clarified to be ...

Linux is now beating Windows on Microsoft’s own turf, and Azure is better for it  Yahoo Tech

According to remarks by a developer at Microsoft, there are now more instances of Linux-based operating systems running on the company's Azure cloud ...

It was just earlier this month that D9VK 0.13 was released with new features while now a "0.13f" Hypnofrog release is available in pre-release form...

With the in-development Linux 5.3 kernel is now support for Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) that was introduced as part of Cascade Lake processors. Speed Select Technology allows optimizing the system with per-core performance configurations to prioritize certain workloads while lowering the performance envelope for other cores...

Thread Synchronization in Linux and Windows Systems, Part 1  Embedded Computing Design

This article will be useful for those who have never programmed applications with multiple threads but plan to do so in the future.

AMD Zen 2 processors feature hardware-based mitigations for Spectre V2 and Spectre V4 SSBD while remaining immune to the likes of Meltdown and Zombieload. Here are some benchmarks looking at toggling the CPU speculative execution mitigations across various Intel and AMD processors.

Q4OS 3.8 Stable Released, Kernel 5.2.1 Is Out, Cloudera Announces New Open-Source Licensing Model, Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit Now Available as an Open-Source Project on GitHub and Alan Turing to Be Featured on New Note in the UK  Linux Journal

News briefs for July 15, 2019. Q4OS 3.8 stable was released today. This is a long-term support (LTS) release based on Debian Buster 10 with Plasma 5.14 and ...

For those in the market for an AMD X570 high-end motherboard for use with the new Zen 2 processors, the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO was one of the boards sent out as part of the reviewer's kit and it's been working out quite well...

Best Linux Distro for Windows 7 Refugees: Manjaro KDE  Ghacks Technology News

Mike explains why he thinks that Manjaro Linux is the best choice for Windows 7 users who want to make the switch to Linux.

An AI Wizard of Words  Linux Journal

A look at using OpenAI's Generative Pretrained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) to generate text. It's probably fair to say that there's more than one person out there who is ...

Linux Operating System Market 2019 - 2025 | Emerging Key Players by Size, Types, Applications and Regions  Boston Life News

Global “Linux Operating System market” research report 2019-2025 offers an unbiased and complete analysis of the on-going trends, opportunities/ high ...

At 479,818 lines of new code and just 36,145 lines of code removed while touching nearly two thousand files, the Direct Rendering Manger (DRM) driver updates for Linux 5.3 are huge. But a big portion of that line count is the addition of AMD Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" support and a good portion of that in turn being auto-generated header files. Navi support is ready for the mainline Linux kernel!..