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Rugged, Kaby Lake-U based IoT gateway offers Linux BSP  LinuxGizmos.com

Advantech's Linux-ready, DIN-rail mounted “ICO500-518” IoT gateway runs on 7th Gen Core U-series CPUs and provides swappable SATA, 4x USB 3.0, 2x GbE ...

This week marks one year since Valve rolled out their Proton beta for Steam Play to allow Windows games to gracefully run on Linux via this Wine downstream catered for Steam Linux gaming. It's been crazy since then with all of Valve's continued work on open-source graphics drivers, adding the likes of FAudio and D9VK to Proton, continuing to fund DXVK development for faster Direct3D-over-Vulkan, and many other infrastructure improvements and more to allow more Windows games to run on Linux and to do so well and speedy...

While we haven't heard anything yet about Oracle's plans for Solaris post-11.4 whether that means Solaris 11.4 or the reportedly killed Solaris 12, Oracle today did release Solaris 11.4 Stable Release Update 12 as their newest installment for their supported Solaris operating system release...

IBM is moving OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation  TechCrunch

IBM makes the Power Series chips, and as part of that has open sourced some of the underlying technologies to encourage wider use of these chips. The open ...

The big POWER announcement appears to be that the POWER instruction set architecture is being contributed to the open-source community and the OpenPOWER Foundation is becoming part of the Linux Foundation...

Chrome OS 77 to bring Crostini (Linux beta) to Chromebook Pixel 2015, other older devices  About Chromebooks

Still rocking a Chromebook Pixel 2015 or other device from around that era? You've been missing out on Linux apps but that's about to change with Chrome OS ...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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The long-running Linux "Lockdown" patches were sent out again overnight for their 40th time but it remains to be seen if these security-oriented patches will be pulled in for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle...

Turn your Xbox console into a home PC with this guide  Windows Report

In order to Turn Xbox into PC, you will need a set of items including: Mechassault software, and a compatible version of Linux.

The GNU toolchain has already been preparing for Cooperlake CPUs as the successor to Cascadelake as well as supporting the new instruction set extensions, but finally today the support for -march=cooperlake was merged to GCC 10 for conveniently exposing the new CPU target in the GNU Compiler Collection. At the same time, -march=tigerlake was also added...

Linux Software Market Is Booming Worldwide | Top key Players Like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft  Indian Columnist

“A new report as an Linux Software market that includes a comprehensive analysis of the global market. This includes investigating past progress, ongoing ...

On Chromebooks when moving to the latest Chrome OS that switches over to a Linux 4.19 based kernel, BFQ has become the default I/O scheduler...

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL2  InfoWorld

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern ...

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL 2  InfoWorld

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern ...

I installed five flavours of Linux on my new laptop: One month on, here's what I've learned  ZDNet

Using Linux on a laptop used to be so tricky and tedious: that's clearly no longer the case.

Installing five flavours of Linux on my new laptop: One month on, here's what I've learned  ZDNet

Using Linux on a laptop used to be so tricky and tedious: that's clearly no longer the case.

GNOME 3.34 continues to look like an incredibly great release in the performance department as well as for Wayland users...

Nginx is a very popular high-performance web server that combines the power of reverse proxying, load balancing, caching and so much more. Depending on how it is configured, it can act as a reverse...

Over the last few months, I participated in two keynote panels where people asked questions about open source licensing:

• Do we need to redefine what open source means in the age of the cloud?
• Are cloud vendors abusing open source?
• Will open source, as we know it, survive?

Last year was the most eventful in my memory for the usually very conservative open source licensing space:

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From application deployment to provisioning, Ansible is a powerful open source tool for automating routine IT tasks. It can help an organization's IT run smoothly, with core IT processes networked and maintained. Ansible is an advanced IT orchestration solution, and it can be deployed even over a large, complex network infrastructure.

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