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Oracle Autonomous Linux Is The World’s First Autonomous OS - Fossbytes

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 21:38
Oracle Autonomous Linux Is The World’s First Autonomous OS  Fossbytes

Oracle Autonomous Linux OS has been announced to simplify cloud computing needs for server-side computers. It is the world's first World's First Autonomous ...

AMD EPYC 7H12 Announced As New 280 Watt Processor For High Performance Computing

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 21:00
From Rome, Italy this afternoon AMD not only announced more than 100 world records have been broken with their new EPYC "Rome" processors, but there is also a new SKU! Meet the EPYC 7H12...

Linux 5.4 Power Management Updates Sent In But Without AMD CPPC Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 19:03
The Linux 5.4 power management changes have been submitted for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Huawei has started shipping Matebooks with Linux - Gizchina.com

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 18:52
Huawei has started shipping Matebooks with Linux  Gizchina.com

Although in recent months, the news published about Huawei has not been about how good their products are or how good their sales are, but about Trump's ...

Valve's ACO Shader Compiler Under Review For The Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 18:41
The RADV "ACO" shader compiler announced by Valve back in July for the fastest compilation speeds and best possible code generation may soon be hitting mainline Mesa for the open-source AMD Linux graphics stack...

How to break out of a hypervisor: Abuse Qemu-KVM on-Linux pre-5.3 – or VMware with an AMD driver - The Register

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 18:27
How to break out of a hypervisor: Abuse Qemu-KVM on-Linux pre-5.3 – or VMware with an AMD driver  The Register

A pair of newly disclosed security flaws could allow malicious virtual machine guests to break out of their hypervisor's walled gardens and execute malicious ...

Oracle Autonomous Linux is 'world's first' autonomous operating system - The INQUIRER

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 16:42
Oracle Autonomous Linux is 'world's first' autonomous operating system  The INQUIRER

ORACLE HAS SHOWN OFF Oracle Autonomous Linux, an autonomous operating system that requires no human supervision to run. The operating system was ...

Linux 5.4 Preps For Intel Tiger Lake, Elkhart Lake & Lightning Mountain + Killing MPX

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 16:40
The Linux 5.4 x86/cpu changes are as busy as always on the Intel side...

How to Install Apache Tomcat in RHEL 8

Tecmint - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 16:18
Apache Tomcat is an open-source, lightweight, powerful and widely-used web server developed and maintained by Apache Foundation. It is an implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression Language (EL) and Java...

Sneaky cryptocurrency-mining malware Skidmap hits Linux - BetaNews

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 15:52
Sneaky cryptocurrency-mining malware Skidmap hits Linux  BetaNews

Security researchers at TrendMicro have discovered a rootkit-like strain of malware that is striking Linux users. Called Skidmap, the malware is a cryptocurrency ...

Adding themes and plugins to Zsh

opensource.com - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 15:02

In my previous article, I explained how to get started with Z-shell (Zsh). For some users, the most exciting thing about Zsh is its ability to adopt new themes. It's so easy to theme Zsh both because of the active community designing visuals for the shell and also because of the Oh My Zsh project, which makes it trivial to install them.


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The community-led renaissance of open source

opensource.com - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 15:01

With few commercial participants, early free software and open source communities were, by definition, community-led. Software was designed and created organically by communities of users in response to their needs and inspiration. The results, to a degree nobody predicted, were often magical.


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Election fraud: Is there an open source solution?

opensource.com - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 15:00

Can open source technology help keep our elections honest? With its Trust The Vote Project, the Open Source Election Technology (OSET) Institute is working on making that a reality for elections in the United States and around the world.


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Linux Operating System Market Innovative Strategy by 2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE - Impartnews

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 14:35
Linux Operating System Market Innovative Strategy by 2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Impartnews

Stats and Reports recently announced the publication of its new title on “Global Linux Operating System Market” from its database. The report provides study ...

Become A Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin [65% Off] - It's FOSS

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 13:25
Become A Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin [65% Off]  It's FOSS

The Linux Foundation is offering beginner sysadmin and advanced sysadmin training and certification bundle at more than 65% off. You have better career ...

Meld is an excellent file and folder comparison tool for Windows and Linux - Ghacks Technology News

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 13:12
Meld is an excellent file and folder comparison tool for Windows and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Ever had two sets of the same files and folders and couldn't decide which one to retain? It may take a long time to actually open each to verify the one that's ...

AMD Linux Driver's LRU Bulk Moves Can Be A Big Help For Demanding Linux Games

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 13:08
Sadly not currently queued as a fix for the Linux 5.4 kernel, re-enabling the LRU bulk moves functionality can be a significant boost for helping with the Radeon graphics driver performance for Linux gaming...

Improved Fscrypt Sent In For Linux 5.4 To Offer Better Native File Encryption Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 12:09
In addition to submitting the FS-VERITY file authentication code for Linux 5.4, Google's Eric Biggers has sent out his big update to the fscrypt file encryption framework for this next kernel revision...

Improved Fscrypt Sent In For Linux 5.4 To Offer Better Native File Encryption Handling - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 09/18/2019 - 12:09
Improved Fscrypt Sent In For Linux 5.4 To Offer Better Native File Encryption Handling  Phoronix

In addition to submitting the FS-VERITY file authentication code for Linux 5.4, Google's Eric Biggers has sent out his big update to the fscrypt file encryption ...

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