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Since its advent, DevOps has been pitted against IT service management (ITSM) and its ITIL framework.

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Where do you go when you have a question? Since humans began walking the earth, we've asked the people around us—our family, friends, neighbors, classmates, co-workers, or other people we know well. Much later came libraries and bookstores offering knowledge and resources, as well as access for anyone to come in and search for the answers. When the home computer became common, these knowledge bases extended to electronic encyclopedias shipped on floppy disks or CD-ROMs.

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In this Part 3 of Python Data Structure series, we will be discussing what is a dictionary, how it differs from other data structure in python, how to create, delete dictionary objects and methods...

Linux Software Market Share opportunities Trends, and Forecasts to 2020-2026: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  News Times

Debuginfod is the Red Hat led debug information HTTP web server distributed as part of elfutils and able to supply on-demand source code and ELF/DWARF debug files to debuggers / IDEs / other compiler tooling. The GDB debugger can now tap debuginfod for on-demand source files and debug information that isn't present on the local system...

Wondering how Red Hat is helping its customers succeed? We regularly publish customer success stories that highlight how we're helping customers gain efficiency, cut costs, and transform the way they deliver software. This month we'll look at how Microsoft, SIA, and Fortuna Entertainment Group have worked with Red Hat to improve their business.

Announced last November was the Bytecode Alliance with a goal of running WebAssembly everywhere. This effort by Intel, Red Hat, Mozilla, and others has resulted in a new release today of wasmtime, their JIT-style runtime for WebAssembly on the desktop...

Laptop-phone Cosmo Communicator hits 350% of crowdfunding goal (Update: Linux support)  Android Police

With it being a while now since the PHP 7.4 release and the PHP developers continuing to be busy at work on PHP 8.0 as the next major installment of the popular web programming language, here is a fresh look at the performance of PHP 8.0 in its current state -- including when its JIT compiler is enabled -- compared to releases going back to PHP 5.6...

Microsoft Goes Live with Azure Sphere, Its Linux-Powered IoT Security Platform  ADT Magazine

Tiny, Linux-powered STM32MP1 SiP ships with two dev kit options  LinuxGizmos.com

Tiny, Linux-powered STM32MP1 SiP ships with two dev kit options  LinuxGizmos.com

Go 1.14 is now available as the latest version of this popular programming language backed by Google...

Go 1.14 Released - Performance Improvements, Go's Module Support Production-Ready  Phoronix

Phoronix Test Suite 9.4-Vestby is now available as one of our largest updates in recent years for our open-source, cross-platform automated benchmarking framework. Almost wanting to rebrand it as Phoronix Test Suite 10, sticking to conventional versioning the Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 release brings numerous result viewer improvements, a lot of polishing to the PDF result exporting, various Microsoft Windows support improvements, new statistics capabilities, some useful new sub-commands, and much more as the latest quarterly feature release.

Cosmo Communicator – A smartphone that runs Android and Linux  Tech Lapse

As we've been expecting to happen with the Linux EFI code being cleaned up before the introduction of a new architecture, the RISC-V patches have been posted for bringing up UEFI boot support...

UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux  Phoronix

Besides all the usual hardware enablement activities with the usual names by Intel's massive open-source team working on the Linux kernel, one of the more peculiar bring-ups recently has been around the "Intel Gateway SoC" with more work abound for Linux 5.7...

Intel Continues Bring-Up Of New Gateway SoC Architecture On Linux, ComboPHY Driver  Phoronix