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NVIDIA announced via their newsletter today that they've open-sourced their TensorRT library and associated plug-ins...

AMDVLK 2019.Q3.1 is out as the latest update to AMD's official open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

Debian 10 Buster expected this week, but not for Linux on Chromebooks (unless you manually upgrade)  About Chromebooks

Debian 10 Buster lands this week but Linux on your Chromebook will still run Debian 9 Stretch for some time. If you want to upgrade your Project Crostini ...

Toughened up embedded computer runs Linux on i.MX8M  LinuxGizmos.com

Axiomtek is prepping a fanless, rugged “Agent336” embedded computer that runs Linux or Android on a quad Cortex-A53 i.MX8M and offers dual mini-PCIe, ...

For those looking for a small form factor workstation-oriented graphics card or just a budget workstation GPU in general, AMD today announced the Radeon Pro WX 3200...

Security-Focused Whonix Linux Is Now Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster"  Softpedia News

Patrick Schleizer announced today the release and general availability of the Whonix Linux 15 operating system, a major release of this security- and ...

Online Censorship Is Coming--Here's How to Stop It  Linux Journal

EU's upload filters are coming. Why and how the Open Source world must fight them. A year ago, I warned about some terrible copyright legislation being drawn ...

Following weeks of leaks and other rumors, NVIDIA today finally lifted the lid on their new "SUPER" line-up with the revised RTX 2060 / RTX 2070 / RTX 2080 graphics cards with more competitive value especially in light of AMD's Radeon RX 5700 series offerings coming to market next week...

Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" ISOs Now Ready for Testing Ahead of July 6th Launch  Softpedia News

Debian Project puts out call for help from community.

The latest work by Valve open-source Linux graphics driver contributor Samuel Pitoiset is on offering Delta Color Compression (DCC) support for layers with the Vulkan RADV driver...

Mir 1.3 was released today as the newest version of Canonical's project making it easier to write desktop shells with Wayland support...

NVIDIA released update Vulkan beta drivers on Monday for both Windows and Linux...

Will AMD's New Radeon RX 5700 Series Graphics Cards Support Linux At Launch?  Forbes

We're days away from AMD's new 7nm Radeon gaming GPUs, so how's Linux support shaping up?

Linux’s success in servers could pose problems for the Linux desktop  SlashGear

The cat is out of the bag and Steve Ballmer's worst nightmare has just come true. Microsoft, once the most outspoken enemy of Linux and open source software,

While Linux usage of Steam as a percentage has generally been flat or ticking up slightly each month since last year when Valve introduced Steam Play for allowing many Windows games to run gracefully on Linux, during June was the first time in a while seeing a decline...

Valve's Steam Survey Data Shows Linux Usage Pulling Back During June  Phoronix

While Linux usage of Steam as a percentage has generally been flat or ticking up slightly each month since last year when Valve introduced Steam Play for ...

Backbox Linux Releases Update To Version 6.0  Rogue Media Labs

While I was away last month I got an interesting email/request by Backbox Linux Community Staff to release an article covering the release of their latest version; ...

Microsoft Says Linux Surpassed Windows on Azure  Softpedia News

“Microsoft loves Linux” is something that we hear every once in a while, especially from Microsofties who try to get the software giant more involved into this ...

Everyone's heard of firewalls, even if only as a plot device in a TV cybercrime drama. Many people also know that their computer is (likely) running a firewall, but fewer people understand how to take control of their firewall when necessary.

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Improving the software development lifecycle, the speed we deliver software to customers, and the quality of that software are all great premises of DevOps. They are goals that the tools and techniques prescribed by the DevOps movement attempt to achieve. As a developer, I feel freer to make changes rapidly, not just to source code, but also to infrastructure and configuration code. As a DevOps practitioner, my goal is to balance that freedom with quality and security. How? One tool we can use is code reviews.

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