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Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments - VentureBeat

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 20:00
Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments  VentureBeat

Google announces Chromebook Enterprise laptops, Dell's Latitude 5300 for $819 and Latitude 5400 for $699, faster Admin console, and new Chrome OS ...

Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments - VentureBeat

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 20:00
Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments  VentureBeat

Google announces Chromebook Enterprise laptops, Dell's Latitude 5300 for $819 and Latitude 5400 for $699, faster Admin console, and new Chrome OS ...

Chromebooks in schools and businesses can now use Linux apps - Android Police

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 20:00
Chromebooks in schools and businesses can now use Linux apps  Android Police

The Linux container on Chrome OS has become better and better since it was first introduced last year. It's now possible to run a wide range of Linux.

Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments - VentureBeat

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 20:00
Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments  VentureBeat

Google announces Chromebook Enterprise laptops, Dell's Latitude 5300 for $819 and Latitude 5400 for $699, faster Admin console, and new Chrome OS ...

AMD Renoir Graphics Power Management Gets Wired Up

Phoronix - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 19:48
While AMD's next-gen Renoir APUs are Vega-based and not Navi, beyond the initial Linux driver enablement seen over the past few weeks coming out a few days ago were a set of patches just getting the power management in order...

FFmpeg Lands OpenCL-Powered Video Stabilization Filter

Phoronix - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 19:37
FFmpeg has landed a "deshake" OpenCL filter to its code-base to serve for video stabilization support...

NetBSD Made Progress Thanks To GSoC In Its March Towards Steam Support

Phoronix - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 19:23
Ultimately the goal is to get Valve's Steam client running on NetBSD using their Linux compatibility layer while the focus the past few months with Google Summer of Code 2019 were supporting the necessary DRM ioctls for allowing Linux software running on NetBSD to be able to tap accelerated graphics support...

NetBSD Made Progress Thanks To GSoC In Its March Towards Steam Support - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 19:23
NetBSD Made Progress Thanks To GSoC In Its March Towards Steam Support  Phoronix

Ultimately the goal is to get Valve's Steam client running on NetBSD using their Linux compatibility layer while the focus the past few months with Google ...

KernelShark Has More Plans For Improving This GUI Around Linux's Ftrace

Phoronix - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 19:01
One month ago was the release of KernelShark 1.0 as the GUI for visualizing Ftrace Linux kernel traces. While v1.0 was a big step forward and switched from GTK to Qt, KernelShark 2.0 is already in planning with more features...

Beginner's Guide: How To Install Your Favorite Software On Ubuntu Linux 18.04 And 19.04 - Forbes

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 17:52
Beginner's Guide: How To Install Your Favorite Software On Ubuntu Linux 18.04 And 19.04  Forbes

So you've just installed Ubuntu? Learn how easy it is to load up your favorite software, and the advantages you can expect compared to Windows.

How to Install Free SSL Certificate for Nginx on Debian 10

Tecmint - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 16:24
When setting up a website, one of the key considerations that you should have in mind is your site’s security. An SSL certificate is a digital certificate that encrypts data that is sent from...

Scrcpy – Control your Android phone from PC (Windows/Linux/Mac) - H2S Media

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 16:15
Scrcpy – Control your Android phone from PC (Windows/Linux/Mac)  H2S Media

Here in this tutorial, we will let you know how to download and use Scrcpy on Windows 10/8/7, macOS and Linux PC after downloading to control Android ...

Using variables in Bash

opensource.com - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 15:02

In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer).


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5 ops tasks to do with Ansible

opensource.com - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 15:01

In this DevOps world, it sometimes appears the Dev half gets all the limelight, with Ops the forgotten half in the relationship. It's almost as if the leading Dev tells the trailing Ops what to do, with almost everything "Ops" being whatever Dev says it should be. Ops, therefore, gets left behind, punted to the back, relegated to the bench.

I'd like to see more OpsDev happening. So let's look at a handful of things Ansible can help you do with your day-to-day Ops life. 


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3 Best Windows Alternatives | Most secure & private operating systems - proprivacy.com

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 15:00
3 Best Windows Alternatives | Most secure & private operating systems  proprivacy.com

Windows is not a secure or private operating system, in fact, it has been target by hackers and malware peddlers for decades. In this guide we list the best ...

Introduction to the Linux chown command

opensource.com - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 15:00

Every file and directory on a Linux system is owned by someone, and the owner has complete control to change or delete the files they own. In addition to having an owning user, a file has an owning group.

You can view the ownership of a file using the ls -l command:


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Bookworm is a light-weight eBook reader for Linux - Ghacks Technology News

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 14:26
Bookworm is a light-weight eBook reader for Linux  Ghacks Technology News

While Calibre has a built-in reader, and is the absolute best when it comes to managing and converting eBooks, some people may prefer an alternative when it ...

Linux 5.3-rc6 Released - Marking Linux's 28th Birthday

Phoronix - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 05:25
Linus Torvalds today released the sixth weekly test release of the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel. It also happens to be 28 years to the day since Linus Torvalds announced the original Linux kernel...

Samsung DeX is darn close to the “Chrome Phone” I'd like to see - About Chromebooks

Google News - Mon, 08/26/2019 - 05:07
Samsung DeX is darn close to the “Chrome Phone” I'd like to see  About Chromebooks

I've been pondering what a Chrome Phone would look like since 2013. We'll probably never see one but if you want to get an idea for the concept, look no ...

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