Open-source News

How to Install Fail2Ban to Protect SSH on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 14:54
Fail2ban is a free, open-source and widely used intrusion prevention tool that scans log files for IP addresses that show malicious signs such as too many password failures, and much more, and it bans...

Firefox 71 Landing Wayland DMA-BUF Textures Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 12:29
Firefox 71 is bringing another important Wayland improvement!..

Fedora 31 Won't Add An Official POWER Desktop Spin

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 12:00
While Fedora recently began spinning workstation/live images for POWER (PPC64LE) at least as a work-in-progress, it won't be made a formal feature of the upcoming Fedora 31...

Enhancing availability of SAP deployments with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for SAP Solutions

Red Hat News - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 12:00

In August 2019, we announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7, the latest update to the stable and production-ready RHEL 7 platform. RHEL 7 helps customers meet the modern datacenter demands as well as the next-generation IT requirements of existing and new SAP workloads. On top of that, RHEL 7 for SAP Solutions includes additional capabilities to support SAP Applications across the hybrid cloud, from bare-metal servers to public cloud instances, all on a standard, flexible and scalable operating system platform.

NVIDIA Begins Funding Blender Development

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 05:38
NVIDIA is the latest high profile company now contributing significant funds for advancing the open-source Blender 3D modeling software...

Imad Sousou Steps Down As Head Of Intel's Open-Source Efforts

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 04:46
After an incredible 25 year journey at Intel and having founded the Open-Source Technology Center, Imad Sousou announced today he is stepping away from Intel...

Announcing the All Things Open 2019 lightning talk lineup

opensource.com - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 01:10

If you're attending the All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC this year be sure to check out our Lightning Talk series on Tuesday, October 15 at 12:45 pm EDT.


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Intel Readies Another Big Graphics Driver Push With Linux 5.5 - Lots For Tigerlake/Gen12

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2019 - 01:09
While just one week past the Linux 5.4 merge window cut-off and now with XDC 2019 out of the day, Intel's open-source graphics driver team sent in their first batch of new material they will be targeting for the Linux 5.5 cycle...

PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 22:18
One of the areas of performance I had been meaning to look more at following the recent AMD EPYC 7002 series launch was for database servers. With the original EPYC 7000 series performance, the performance came up short in competing with Intel Xeon CPUs, but for the EPYC Rome processors it ends up being a very different story. Given the launch last week of PostgreSQL 12, I've been trying out this new database server release on both EPYC and Xeon processors.

Intel Lowers Costs On New Xeon W-2200 Series & Cuts Core 9000 F-Series CPU Pricing

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 21:30
In addition to The Cascadelake X-Series CPUs laqunching at a much lower price, Intel announced the Xeon W-2200 series today also at lower pricing while cutting prices on their existing Core 9000 F-series desktop CPUs too...

AMD Announces Navi 14 Based Radeon RX 5500 Series

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 21:22
AMD today lifted the lid on the Radeon RX 5500 series as their first Nav 14 based graphics card. This is the soft launch with no units shipping yet but expected to starting in November...

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