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Linux-powered NVR can stream and analyze 12 HD cam feeds without a cloud connection  LinuxGizmos.com

A new “Camect” camera hub and 1TB NVR that can aggregate up to 12 HD streams has funded on Indiegogo. The $279 device runs Linux on an Apollo Lake ...

How to hide and unhide files or folder on a Linux computer  H2S Media

Now, you can understand, hiding and unhiding files and folders on a Linux computer is just a piece of cake. You just need to know the command & execute it.

It's coming almost one month behind schedule, but LLVM 9.0 is out today along with the Clang 9.0 C/C++ compiler and associated sub-projects for this open-source compiler infrastructure...

Linux Container Technology Explained (Contributed)  Government Technology

State and local governments' IT departments increasingly rely on DevOps practices and agile development methodologies to improve *service* delivery and to ...

The beta release is out today for KDE Plasma 5.17...

Linux commit suggests mainstream AMD Navi GPUs will launch before October 15  PCGamesN

Trivial and urgent. That's probably not how AMD would like its upcoming Navi 12 GPUs to be referenced, but that's how its open source guru, Marek Olsak, has ...

Creative Assembly revealed Total War Saga: TROY on Wednesday for release next year. Feral Interactive has announced they are porting this latest Total War game to macOS and Linux...

A Total War Saga: TROY Seeing A Native Linux Port Next Year  Phoronix

Creative Assembly revealed Total War Saga: TROY on Wednesday for release next year. Feral Interactive has announced they are porting this latest Total War ...

Ubuntu-maker Canonical shares top 5 snaps per Linux distribution  BetaNews

All Linux users are the same, right? Oh, hell no! Linux users are a diverse bunch, with differing opinions, tastes, and personalities. In fact, that is probably a ...

Running The AMD "ABBA" Ryzen 3000 Boost Fix Under Linux With 140 Tests  Phoronix

Last week AMD's AGESA "ABBA" update began shipping with a fix to how the boost clock frequencies are handled in hopes of better achieving the rated boost ...

Last week AMD's AGESA "ABBA" update began shipping with a fix to how the boost clock frequencies are handled in hopes of better achieving the rated boost frequencies for Ryzen 3000 series processors. I've been running some tests of an updated ASUS BIOS with this adjusted boost clock behavior to see how it performs under Linux with a Ryzen 9 3900X processor.

Fine Wine: An Interview With Codeweavers About Valve, Windows And The Future Of Gaming On Linux  Forbes

What's it like working with Valve on Proton? What can Linux distro maintainers do to make life better for gamers? Codeweavers answers these questions and ...

It was just two days ago that Valve's performance-focused "ACO" shader compiler was submitted for review to be included in Mesa for the "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver. Just minutes ago that new shader compiler back-end was merged for Mesa 19.3...

Most Linux gamers these days should be running at least quad-core systems so Mesa 19.3 has been updated to reflect that reality with the number of CPU threads used by their disk cache...

The Linux 5.4 block subsystem changes brings the new blk-iocost model...

Back in July of last year the RADV Vulkan driver enabled primitive binning and DFSM for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver. Well, it thought it enabled DFSM support and paired with the binning did yield a minor performance benefit at the time for Raven Ridge APUs. But now it turns out the DFSM support wasn't properly wired up and is now addressed but is currently introducing a performance regression...

The mature XFS and Btrfs file-systems continue seeing more fixes and cleaning with the now in-development Linux 5.4 kernel...

Cybersecurity is no longer just the domain of the IT staff putting in firewalls and backing up servers. It takes a commitment from the top and a budget to match. The stakes are high when it comes to keeping your customers' information safe.

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At a high level, any machine learning problem can be divided into three types of tasks: data tasks (data collection, data cleaning, and feature formation), training (building machine learning models using data features), and evaluation (assessing the model). Features, defined as "individual measurable propert[ies] or characteristic[s] of a phenomenon being observed," are very useful because they help a machine understand the data and classify it into categories or predict a value.

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Last week, I introduced you to the origins of the mainframe's origins from a community perspective. Let's continue our journey, picking up at the end of 1999, which is when IBM got onboard with Linux on the mainframe (IBM Z).

According to the Linux on z Systems Wikipedia page:

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