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Alpine Linux 3.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight, security-minded Linux distribution built atop Musl libc and Busybox while catering being quite popular in the container crowd...

Open Invention Network, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3,000 licensees  ZDNet

While some businesses remain entangled in patent wars, the companies which have joined the OIN are freeing Linux from patent fights.

How to install the Unity editor on Linux  TechRepublic

The popular Unity editor is now available for Linux. Get it up and running so you can start developing on your favorite platform.

Docker Is Porting Its Container Platform to Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, Ubuntu 19.10 Will Drop 32-Bit Builds, Children of Morta Still Coming to Linux and Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Linux TCP System  Linux Journal

News briefs for June 19, 2019. The development team over at Docker is porting their container platform to Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) It ...

AMD Navi GPU stack bares all in Linux graphics driver update  PCGamesN

Eight Navi GPU variants have been spotted in Linux driver code. AMD's next-gen RDNA graphics chips are set for launch on July 7, 2019 within the RX 5700 XT ...

Benchmarks Of OpenMandriva's AMD Zen Optimized Linux Distribution Against Ubuntu, openSUSE, Clear Linux  Phoronix

Released this week was OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 as the latest major release for this Linux distribution of Mandriva/Mandrake heritage and continues on the ...

Released this week was OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 as the latest major release for this Linux distribution of Mandriva/Mandrake heritage and continues on the interesting trend of innovations. In addition to continuing to use the LLVM Clang compiler by default rather than GCC, among other changes that position it more uniquely than many other Linux distributions out there, their 4.0 release has a "znver1" spin that is optimized for AMD Ryzen/Threadripper/EPYC processors. Here are benchmarks comparing not only OpenMandriva 4.0's x86-64 and Znver1 options but also how that performance compares to the likes of Ubuntu 19.04, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Intel's Clear Linux.

Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD  Naked Security

Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-*service* by clogging networking I/O.

1. Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD  Naked Security
2. TCP SACK Panic Flaw Could Compromise Production Linux Machines  Security Intelligence
3. Linux Vulnerabilities Uncovered By Netflix  ISBuzz News
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Study the Elements with KDE's Kalzium  Linux Journal

I've written about a number of chemistry packages in the past and all of the computational chemistry that you can do in a Linux environment. But, what is ...

After being marred by delays the past several weeks, Qt 5.13 is shipping today as the latest major update to the Qt5 tool-kit and another step closer towards seeing Qt 6.0 around the end of 2020...

While as of Linux 5.2 the support for Intel's Icelake CPUs appear production ready with all of the bits in place from new IDs to the much enhanced "Gen 11" graphics, there are a few stragglers of items to land with the upcoming Linux 5.3 merge window though could be back-ported to current series. Fortunately, we haven't found anything major to be missing...

In addition to discontinuing i386 support, Canonical announced another change being worked on for Ubuntu 19.10 is compiler hardening...

Infographic: Linux Mint Challenges Windows 10 In Small Business Productivity Speed Tests  Forbes

Linux is typically less resource-hungry than Microsoft's Windows 10, and that gives it a distinct advantage on under-powered desktops and laptops. Linux is ...

Linux Operating System Market is Growing at a High CAGR by 2025- Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Amazing Newspaper

Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system. As an operating system, Linux is software that sits underneath all of the other software on ...

Under Docker, an image developer can define image defaults related to detached or foreground running, and other useful settings. But, using the docker run [OPTIONS] command, you can add to or override the image...

Here at Codethink, we’ve recently focused our energy into enhancing the onboarding process we use for all new starters at the company. As we grow steadily in size, it’s important that we have a well-defined approach to both welcoming new employees into the company, and introducing them to the organization’s culture.

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This article is the first of two on cryptography basics using OpenSSL, a production-grade library and toolkit popular on Linux and other systems. (To install the most recent version of OpenSSL, see here.) OpenSSL utilities are available at the command line, and programs can call functions from the OpenSSL libraries. The sample program for this article is in C, the source language for the OpenSSL libraries.

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TCP SACK Panic Flaw Could Compromise Production Linux Machines  Security Intelligence

A kernel flaw dubbed TCP SACK Panic could allow remote attackers to compromise organizations running large fleets of production Linux computers, according ...

Like many other leaders in the open source software world, Naomi Ceder, board chair of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), took a non-traditional path into the Python world. As the title of her 2017 keynote at PyCon España explains, she came for the language and stayed for the community.

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