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Linux Operating System Market Analysis & Forecast 2019|IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  League Finals

Los Angeles, United State, September 3, 2019, – – The report comes out as an intelligent and thorough assessment tool as well as a great resource that will help ...

Even as we approach 2020, many Linux distributions and various desktop programs still isn't fully optimized for today's modern HiDPI screens. Fortunately for users of Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, their next update will further improve its HiDPI support...

UPower is the abstraction layer around batteries and other power devices on Linux. Even with it being years since it was known as DeviceKit-power and seeing many 0.99 updates, the UPower 1.0 release isn't there yet but at least UPower 0.99.11 is now available as their first release since February...

Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Security Updates for All Supported Ubuntu OSes  Softpedia News

Ubuntu 19.04, 18.04 LTS, and 16.04 LTS are affected.

Crypto-mining malware leaps to Intel-powered Linux systems  SC Magazine UK

A coin-mining malware infection has made a leap from Arm-powered internet of things (IoT) devices to Intel systems. Share. A coin-mining malware infection has ...

Linux on your laptop: Here's what you need to know about UEFI firmware  ZDNet

Understanding UEFI firmware, and the Linux utilities to manage it, can save you a lot of time and trouble.

Take the Power of Linux with You on the Go with This Bite-Sized Computer  Interesting Engineering

Take the power of Linux with you wherever you go with a VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle for just $69—over 10% off its usual price for a limited time.

Kali Linux 2019.3 released and Kali Linux NetHunter updated for mobile devices  Geeky Gadgets

The third release of Kali Linux 2019 has now been made available for download bringing with it a wide variety of new features, enhancements and updates to.

Kali Linux 2019.3 Released For Ethical Hacking Enthusiasts  Fossbytes

The exisiting users of Kali can simply perform the update to the latest version with a simple apt -y full-upgrade command. You only need to download a *fresh* ISO ...

Shell scripting is an essential discipline for anyone in a sysadmin type of role, and the predominant shell in which people write scripts today is Bash. Bash comes as default on nearly all Linux distributions and modern MacOS versions and is slated to be a native part of Windows Terminal soon enough. Bash, you could say, is everywhere.

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Apache ActiveMQ is a flexible and powerful open-source multi-protocol message broker built using Java. A message broker mediates communication among applications by translating a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to...

English essayist and politician Joseph Addison once said, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Today, most (if not all) of us are training our brains by reading text on computer monitors, television screens, mobile devices, street signs, newspapers, magazines, and papers at work or school.

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The most powerful aspects of an organization's culture live in the smallest individual gestures—sometimes no bigger than a peanut.

Not long ago, as I was sitting in the Dallas airport waiting for a delayed flight, I watched another passenger munch on some peanuts. Their shells fell all over the floor and, after a few minutes, the passenger kicked them into the aisle, presumably for the airport cleaning staff to collect later.

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One of the biggest projects in the blockchain industry, Hyperledger, is comprised of a set of open source tools and subprojects. It's a global collaboration hosted by The Linux Foundation and includes leaders in different sectors who are aiming to build a robust, business-driven blockchain framework.

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An interesting new addition to FFmpeg's avformat library is ZeroMQ protocol support for enhancing its streaming abilities...

It wasn’t that long ago that open source software was considered an unusual technology choice for enterprise computing. Not so anymore. According to Red Hat’s 2019 State of Enterprise Open Source survey of 950 IT professionals, 68% of respondents said their use of enterprise open source has increased over the past 12 months.

Mozilla Rust Considered for Linux Drivers  PC Perspective

When Graydon Hoare of Mozilla (and later others) designed Rust, they wanted a fast, concurrent, memory-safe language without garbage collection because ...

In addition to Mutter seeing today an important last minute performance fix for the NVIDIA proprietary driver, Mutter also saw a long-standing performance optimization finally land for GNOME 3.34 that benefits all hardware/drivers...

Kali Linux Ethical Hacking OS Switches to Linux 5.2, Now Supports OnePlus 7  Softpedia News

LG V20, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 10 images also available.

It appears Linus Torvalds is spending some time away from his computers this US Labor Day weekend with the Linux 5.3-rc7 kernel test release coming one day late...