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Ubuntu LTS Linux Distributions Will Now Get The Latest Nvidia Drivers Installed Automatically  Forbes

Ubuntu continues to make sweeping changes to the way it handles Nvidia graphics driver updates, and it's welcome news for anyone on an Ubuntu LTS-based ...

An Intel open-source developer contributed support to Wayland's reference Weston compositor for enabling HDCP support on a per-output basis using a new allow_hdcp option...

The game is changing for the IT ops community, which means the rules of the past make less and less sense. Organizations need accurate, understandable, and actionable metrics in the right context to measure operations performance and drive critical business transformation.

The more customers use modern tools and the more variation in the types of incidents they manage, the less sense it makes to smash all those different incidents into one bucket to compute an average resolution time that will represent ops performance, which is what IT has been doing for a long time.

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When I decided I wanted to play with color this summer, I thought about the fact that colors are usually depicted on a color wheel. This is usually with pigment colors rather than light, and you lose any sense of the variation in color brightness or luminosity.

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DevOps teams appreciate using DevOps processes, especially in multi- and hybrid cloud infrastructures, for many reasons. For one thing, DevOps breaks down barriers and enables agile software development and continuous delivery of IT operations.

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Redis (which means REmote DIctionary Server) is an open-source, well known and advanced in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. You can consider it as a store and a...

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Weeks ahead of SIGGRAPH and days ahead of the LLVM 9.0 code branching, a number of big "GFX908" commits have been landing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end over the past day...

Kernel Address Space Isolation is an experimental feature in development by Oracle in aiming to prevent leaking sensitive data from Intel Hyper Threading due to speculative execution attacks like L1TF...

Kali Linux now available for Raspberry Pi 4 | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Kali Linux is a specialized distribution targeted at security professionals that also shows up on popular TV show, Mr. Robot. Kali Linux is now compatible with the ...

GNOME Software Moving Forward With Disabling Snap Plugin  Linux.com

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that GNOME developers are planning to disable the Snap plug-in for GNOME Software. Canonical has begun writing their ...

Kali Linux is a specialized distribution targeted at security professionals that also shows up on popular TV show, Mr. Robot. Kali Linux is now compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4. Currently, the distro is only available as a 32-bit OS, but the project is planning on releasing a 64-bit version soon. In the meantime, security aficionados who have a spare Raspberry Pi 4 lying around can head over to the Kali Linux site and download the distro image.

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that GNOME developers are planning to disable the Snap plug-in for GNOME Software. Canonical has begun writing their own Snap Store. They don't plan to use GNOME Software in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and thus have taken their developers away from working on the upstream support.

Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit goes open source on GitHub  Linux.com

Microsoft has open-sourced its Quantum Development Kit (QDK) on GitHub. The QDK, which launched in preview last year, gives developers access to the Q# ...

Cloudera Goes Open Source | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Cloudera has announced changes to its licensing policy that will make its entire product portfolio available under open-source terms, effectively adopting ...

Cloudera has announced changes to its licensing policy that will make its entire product portfolio available under open-source terms, effectively adopting Hortonworks’ business model. The move has important implications for the industry’s ongoing debate about how business models can be built upon a foundation of free software. Although Cloudera is a major contributor to open-source projects, its decade-old business has always been based on selling licensed software.

Microsoft has open-sourced its Quantum Development Kit (QDK) on GitHub. The QDK, which launched in preview last year, gives developers access to the Q# programming language, quantum simulators, and the libraries needed to start experimenting with quantum computing before it go

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The Latest Azure Updates: MFA; Cloud trends; Linux; Data storage; Form Recognizer  MSDynamicsWorld.com

Microsoft adds multi-factor authentication requirements, increases Azure data storage options, adds Form Recognizer, sees new majority Linux workloads and ...

Valve's Steam Labs is the new centralized place for their different experiments around the Steam marketplace...