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3 steps to developing psychological safety

opensource.com - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 15:01

Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. And it's critical for high-performing teams in open organizations.


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Talking to machines: Lisp and the origins of AI

opensource.com - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 15:00

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage today, and its massive impact on the world is still to come, says the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). According to an article on Nanalyze:


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How App Stores Are Addressing Fragmentation in the Linux Ecosystem - DevOps.com

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 14:30
How App Stores Are Addressing Fragmentation in the Linux Ecosystem  DevOps.com

According to DistroWatch, 273 Linux distributions are currently active, with another 56 dormant and 521 discontinued. While some of these have shared.

How to Setup MySQL Master-Slave Replication on RHEL 8

Tecmint - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 14:17
MySQL Replication is a process where data from one server is automatically copied or replicated onto another backup server in real time. Replication provides redundancy and fault tolerance and gives the user peace of...

Linux 5.4 Adds Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, Supports Some Newer ARM Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 13:33
The ARM SoC platform and driver changes landed on Monday during the first full day of the Linux 5.4 merge window. There is some exciting ARM hardware support improvements for this kernel while doing away with some older platforms...

Larry Ellison takes on Amazon Web services with his 'Oracle Autonomous Linux' - Business Insider India

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 13:32
Larry Ellison takes on Amazon Web services with his 'Oracle Autonomous Linux'  Business Insider India

Taking on arch rival Amazon Web Services (AWS) in his usual style, Oracle Co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has made a strong pitch for company's ...

Linux 5.4 Dropping Support For The Itanium IA64-Powered SGI Altix

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 12:08
While Linux 5.4 is bringing a new driver to help SGI systems back to their Origin boxes, this kernel meanwhile dropping support for the SGI Altix that is newer than the some of the Origin systems. SGI Altix being removed from the Linux kernel is the latest in the path for winding down Itanium (IA64) support...

A recap of the Linux Plumbers Conference 2019 - Packt Hub

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 11:46
A recap of the Linux Plumbers Conference 2019  Packt Hub

This year's Linux Plumbers Conference concluded on the 11th of September 2019. This invitation-only conference for Linux top kernel developers was held in ...

Writing Characters Straight To The Linux Framebuffer - Hackaday

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 10:00
Writing Characters Straight To The Linux Framebuffer  Hackaday

These days, working with a display in software is fairly easy. Thanks to the convenience of the modern OS, we're blessed with graphical user interfaces, where ...

PineTime is an incredibly affordable open source Linux Smartwatch - Gadgets & Wearables

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 07:56
PineTime is an incredibly affordable open source Linux Smartwatch  Gadgets & Wearables

Pine64 has revealed in a series of tweets that is making PineTime, a $25 smartwatch companion for Linux smartphones.

Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux - ZDNet

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 07:36
Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux  ZDNet

Billed as the world's first autonomous operating system, Oracle Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.

RHEL8-Based CentOS 8.0 Slated To Be Released Next Week

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 06:35
It looks like CentOS 8.0 as the community and cost-free re-spin of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 will finally ship next week...

Linux 5.4 Scheduler Changes Bring Better AMD EPYC Load Balancing, Other Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 05:49
The Linux 5.4 scheduler changes are fairly exciting on multiple fronts...

New Linux Malware Mines Crypto While Remaining Undetectable - Cointelegraph

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 05:29
New Linux Malware Mines Crypto While Remaining Undetectable  Cointelegraph

Two threat analysts recently stumbled upon new Linux malware that keeps its cryptocurrency mining operations hidden. On Sept. 16, Augusto Remillano II and ...

PulseAudio 13.0 Released With Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 05:04
While PipeWire may be seeing a lot of investment by Red Hat for improving audio/video streams on Linux, PulseAudio isn't letting up yet as the de facto Linux desktop sound server. Quietly released last week was PulseAudio 13.0 as the newest feature update and their first big update in some fifteen months...

Compact Kaby Lake embedded PC supports Linux - LinuxGizmos.com

Google News - Tue, 09/17/2019 - 04:08
Compact Kaby Lake embedded PC supports Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

Axiomtek's fanless, rugged “eBOX100-51R-FL” embedded PC runs Linux or Win 10 on a 7th Gen U-series CPU and offers a pair each of GbE, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, ...

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