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SSH (Secure Shell) is a popular and widely used tool for remote login and file transfers over insecure networks, that uses encryption to secure the connection between a client and a server. Read Also:...

Based on last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 is now Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 with many of the same changes...

Keeping track of Linux users: When do they log in and for how long?  Network World

The Linux command line provides some excellent tools for determining how frequently users log in and how much time they spend on a system. Pulling ...

Linux-driven compute module offers three flavors of i.MX6 UltraLite  LinuxGizmos.com

Variscite has launched SODIMM-style “VAR-SOM-6UL” module that runs Linux on NXP's power-efficient i.MX6 UL, ULL, and ULZ SoCs. The WiFi-equipped, -40 ...

On Wednesday marked the release of AMD's Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver package for Windows and Linux...

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q3 for Linux Released  Phoronix

On Wednesday marked the release of AMD's Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver package for Windows and Linux. The Radeon Pro Software for ...

AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver code had fallen off its roughly weekly code push / release cadence with not having a new release in nearly three weeks, but that changed today with the availability of AMDVLK 2019.Q3.4...

The KDE community has delivered the release of KDE Applications 19.08 as their newest feature updates to the core collection of KDE programs...

Daily user management tasks made easy for every Linux administrator  TechGenix

In this article, we will be going over some tasks that a Linux administrator may need to perform daily related to user management.

Microsoft's newest specification is the "Component Firmware Update" that they envision as a standard for OEMs/IHVs to be able to handle device firmware/microcode updating in a robust and secure manner. While nice in theory, the actual implementation has a number of issues that complicate the process and could quickly evolve into another troubling specification from Microsoft in the hardware space...

Linux-maker Red Hat Purchase Adds Risk to Owning IBM Stock  Nasdaq

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsIBM (NYSE: IBM ) stock continues to struggle. Since hitting highs above $215 per.

Intel has released a new version of their SYCL compiler and run-time code for single-source C++ programming and allowing offloaded computations to accelerators via OpenCL...

Linux-maker Red Hat Purchase Adds Risk to Owning IBM Stock  Investorplace.com

IBM has fallen behind many of its peers, meaning the immediate future of IBM stock hinges on the success of integrating Red Hat.

Linux-maker Red Hat Purchase Adds Risk to Owning IBM Stock  Nasdaq

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsIBM (NYSE: IBM ) stock continues to struggle. Since hitting highs above $215 per.

Open Source Video Editor LiVES 3.0 Released With New Features  It's FOSS

The latest major release of free and open source video editor LiVES makes it even better. Learn how to install the latest LiVES release.

Not directly related to the recent AMD Zen 2 BIOS update needed to fix an RdRand problem (though somewhat related in that the original systemd bug report for faulty AMD RdRand stems from these earlier CPUs), but AMD has now decided to no longer advertise RdRand support for Family 15h (Bulldozer) and Family 16h (Jaguar) processors under Linux...

Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) Europe 2019 Schedule – October 28-30  CNX Software

I may have just written about Linaro Connect San Diego 2019 schedule, but there's another interesting event that will also take place this fall: the.

Today is the 22nd anniversary of the first GNOME release. To celebrate, we want to hear from you. What's your favorite GNOME version? And what does your favorite version say about you? Are you change-averse or are you a pioneer of new releases? Take our poll!

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GNOME is a free and open source desktop environment used by most GNU/Linux distributions like Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. It's designed to "get things done with ease, comfort, and control."

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Tor is a powerful, open source network that enables anonymous and non-trackable (or difficult to track) browsing of the internet. It's able to achieve this because of users running Tor nodes, which serve as intentional detours between two otherwise direct paths. For instance, if you are in New Zealand and visit python.nz, instead of being routed next door to the data center running python.nz, your traffic might be routed to Pittsburgh and then Berlin and then Vanuatu and finally to python.nz.

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