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AMD Ryzen 3000 is experiencing problems with some Linux distributions - Optocrypto

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 21:38
AMD Ryzen 3000 is experiencing problems with some Linux distributions  Optocrypto

Ryzen 3000 seems to have boot problems with the most modern Linux distributions. The problem affects all operating systems using a 2019 Linux distribution ...

Linux 5.3 Crypto Updates Jitter RNG, Adds xxHash

Phoronix - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 21:07
Herbert Xu sent out the crypto subsystem updates on Monday for the in-development Linux 5.3 kernel...

Will IBM's acquisition be the end of Red Hat? - Network World

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 20:49
Will IBM's acquisition be the end of Red Hat?  Network World

IBM's acquisition of Red Hat is a big deal -- a $34 billion big deal -- and many Linux professionals wonder how it's going to change Red Hat's role in the Linux ...

Don't buy the faulty Raspberry Pi 4 -- get a different Linux-compatible single-board computer instead - BetaNews

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 20:46
Don't buy the faulty Raspberry Pi 4 -- get a different Linux-compatible single-board computer instead  BetaNews

Raspberry Pi computers are pretty damn great. Not only are they small and inexpensive, but they are ideal for tinkering and learning. And yes, they can serve as ...

Start Hacking! Kali Linux is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 4 - It's FOSS

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 20:26
Start Hacking! Kali Linux is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 4  It's FOSS

You can take your DIY hacking skills to the next level now. The upgraded Raspberry Pi 4 now gets the Kali Linux support.

Address Space Isolation and the Linux Kernel - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 19:34
Address Space Isolation and the Linux Kernel  Linux Journal

Mike Rapoport from IBM launched a bid to implement address space isolation in the Linux kernel. Address space isolation emanates from the idea of virtual ...

Ubuntu: What does the future look like post-Unity? - TechRepublic

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 19:20
Ubuntu: What does the future look like post-Unity?  TechRepublic

The modern Linux desktop is one where "everything just works," and "you're able to use the applications that you've come to rely on in your day-to-day life," says ...

AMDGPU & RadeonSI Linux Drivers See More Navi Optimizations + Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 18:58
It's just not the RADV Vulkan driver seeing lots of Navi activity but the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver and RadeonSI OpenGL Mesa driver are also off to the races in improving their newly-enabled Navi / Radeon RX 5700 series support...

Linux 5.3 Media Driver Updates Bring New Amlogic Meson Video Decoder

Phoronix - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 18:47
After going through 9+ rounds of revisions for the Amlogic video decode driver, it's now been part of the media subsystem updates for the Linux 5.3 kernel...

Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Linux Distros Compared - MakeUseOf

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 18:00
Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Linux Distros Compared  MakeUseOf

If you're looking for the best Linux has to offer, you have a choice of two. But between Fedora and Ubuntu, which is best?

AMD Opens Up Its Contrast Adaptive Sharpening Under FidelityFX On GPUOpen

Phoronix - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 15:34
Following the Radeon RX 5700 series launch, AMD has now open-sourced their Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) technology under FidelityFX on GPUOpen...

32-bit life support: Cross-compiling with GCC

opensource.com - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 15:02

If you're a developer creating binary packages, like an RPM, DEB, Flatpak, or Snap, you have to compile code for a variety of different target platforms. Typical targets include 32-bit and 64-bit x86 and ARM. You could do your builds on different physical or virtual machines, but that means maintaining several systems. Instead, you can use the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) to cross-compile, producing binaries for several different architectures from a single build machine.


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You can tinker with this conference badge

opensource.com - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 15:01

In the beginning, there were conferences. Over time, as those conferences grew, attendees needed ways to identify each other. This need gave us the conference badge.

No one knows what the first conference badges looked like, but we can be confident that they were relatively simple affairs. Over time, paper was put into plastic sleeves, which eventually became information printed on hard plastic. Sometimes that plastic wasn’t even rectangular.


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How to teach software engineering students about the enterprise

opensource.com - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 15:00

In this opinion article, you will find a set of suggestions for the inclusion of enterprise technology into software engineering courses. This piece goes through the difficulties that students face and proposes simplifications successfully used in the past. The continual advancement of enterprise technologies leads to a simplifying of the inclusion process in education.


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4 Process Managers for Node.js Applications in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 14:26
A Node.js process manager is a useful tool to ensure that a Node.js process or script runs continuously (forever) and can enable it to auto-start at system boot. It allows you to monitor the...

Genode's Sculpt OS 19.07 Brings Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 14:06
Genode continues advancing as an open-source operating system framework and with that their effort to develop Sculpt OS as a general purpose operating system has continued in-step. Out now is Sculpt OS 19.07 as their latest operating system release...

real-time software Linux embedded computing - Military & Aerospace Electronics

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 13:30
real-time software Linux embedded computing  Military & Aerospace Electronics

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Wind River Systems in Alameda, Calif., is introducing enhancements to the Wind River Linux software to ease adoption of containers in ...

Raspberry Pi CPUFreq Driver & Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.3

Phoronix - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 12:04
The power management changes for Linux 5.3 merge window don't offer any P-State changes or other prominent Intel changes this cycle but there is some other improvements as well as new CPUFreq drivers for CPU frequency scaling...

LF Networking Releases ONAP Dublin

Linux.com - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 09:05
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Microsoft To Join The Private Linux Mailing List - Linux.com

Google News - Wed, 07/10/2019 - 08:58
Microsoft To Join The Private Linux Mailing List  Linux.com

Microsoft recently applied to join a private Linux kernel mailing list that's meant for reporting and discussing security issues privately before they are made public.

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