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My previous article about setting up a homelab described many options for building a personal lab to learn new technology. Regardless of whichever solution you choose, as your servers and applications grow, it will become harder and harder to maintain and keep track of them if you don't establish control. To avoid this, it's essential to treat your infrastructure as code.

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Sysadmin Appreciation Day is coming up on July 26. We're kicking off the month with a special sysadmin poll. When you're on call what type of snacks do you like to have on hand? Will junk food tide you over, or do you tend to choose healthier options? You know it could be a long night, so it's important to have the right stash to help you solve problems and stay focused. 

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Hello again from the Red Hat Storage Architect team. In this series, I will show various ways to deploy MongoDB on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage as the persistent storage layer that will provide stability, resilience and performance to MongoDB. All the demos and examples are based on OpenShift Container Platform v3.11.98 and OpenShift Container Storage v3.11.2.

Poison certs imperils GnuPG checking of Linux software  iTnews

An attack has been unleashed against the global synchronising keyserver (SKS) network used by the popular OpenPGP encryption standard, with developers ...

Microsoft asks to join private Linux security developer list  ZDNet

Microsoft's migration from Linux enemy to Linux friend continues in security circles.

Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server  ZDNet

Linux rules all the clouds now, including Microsoft's own Azure.

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Has Linux Kernel Shipping in Windows  InfoQ.com

Windows announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 is now available through the Windows Insiders program. WSL allows developers to run a Linux ...

There have been Linux reports of problems pertaining to "8254 Clock Gating" going back a while but more so recently. This problem is some newer Intel Skylake~Apollolake derived systems particularly with Intel SoCs where certain systems ship with the 8254 PIT to be gated via a special register and up until now that has caused Linux to fail to boot...

The Linux Kernel Getting Fixed Up For Booting On Some Intel Systems - No "8254"  Phoronix

There have been Linux reports of problems pertaining to "8254 Clock Gating" going back a while but more so recently. This problem is some newer Intel ...

One of the interesting Google Summer of Code projects on the BSD front this year is porting Wine to run on AMD64 (x86_64) under NetBSD...

Linus Torvalds is off in "the middle of nowhere" on one of his well known scuba diving adventures but that didn't stop him from being able to release Linux 5.2-rc7 today like clock-work thanks to tethering of a smartphone...

It's been just one week since the release of Vulkan 1.1.112 but it's now been succeeded by Vulkan 1.1.113 and two new extensions are in tow...

KDE developer Nate Graham has posted another one of his usability/productivity summaries of the KDE improvements over the past week. There's been another busy week of work on KDE Plasma 5.17, KDE Applications 19.08, and KDE Frameworks 5.60...

Install SSH server in Fedora Linux for remote login  H2S Media

Here we let you know the commands for the terminal to install Open SSH server on Fedora along with the way to enable and restart its services.

openSUSE Leap 42.3 Linux OS Reached End of Life, Upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.1  Softpedia News

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 Linux-powered operating system has reached end of life on June 30th, 2019, which means that it will no longer receive software and ...

Latest Chrome OS beta brakes Linux support (Crostini) on multiple devices – here's what you should know  PiunikaWeb

The latest beta version of Chrome OS (76.0.3809.38) reportedly breaks Linux app support aka Crostini on multiple devices. Google is aware of the bug.

Latest Chrome OS beta breaks Linux support (Crostini) on multiple devices – here's what you should know  PiunikaWeb

The latest beta version of Chrome OS (76.0.3809.38) reportedly breaks Linux app support aka Crostini on multiple devices. Google is aware of the bug.

Canonical Fixes Linux Kernel Regression in All Supported Ubuntu Releases  Softpedia News

Last week, Canonical released Linux kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu releases to address several security vulnerabilities discovered by Jonathan ...

With the Linux 5.2 kernel due to be released in a few weeks and that marking the opening of the Linux 5.3 merge window, here is a look at some of the likely features coming to this next version of the Linux kernel...

Systemd now allows loading of custom BPF programs for network traffic filtering that are applied to all sockets created by processes of a given systemd unit...