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The long-running Linux "Lockdown" patches were sent out again overnight for their 40th time but it remains to be seen if these security-oriented patches will be pulled in for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle...

Turn your Xbox console into a home PC with this guide  Windows Report

In order to Turn Xbox into PC, you will need a set of items including: Mechassault software, and a compatible version of Linux.

The GNU toolchain has already been preparing for Cooperlake CPUs as the successor to Cascadelake as well as supporting the new instruction set extensions, but finally today the support for -march=cooperlake was merged to GCC 10 for conveniently exposing the new CPU target in the GNU Compiler Collection. At the same time, -march=tigerlake was also added...

Linux Software Market Is Booming Worldwide | Top key Players Like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft  Indian Columnist

“A new report as an Linux Software market that includes a comprehensive analysis of the global market. This includes investigating past progress, ongoing ...

On Chromebooks when moving to the latest Chrome OS that switches over to a Linux 4.19 based kernel, BFQ has become the default I/O scheduler...

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL2  InfoWorld

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern ...

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL 2  InfoWorld

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern ...

I installed five flavours of Linux on my new laptop: One month on, here's what I've learned  ZDNet

Using Linux on a laptop used to be so tricky and tedious: that's clearly no longer the case.

Installing five flavours of Linux on my new laptop: One month on, here's what I've learned  ZDNet

Using Linux on a laptop used to be so tricky and tedious: that's clearly no longer the case.

GNOME 3.34 continues to look like an incredibly great release in the performance department as well as for Wayland users...

Nginx is a very popular high-performance web server that combines the power of reverse proxying, load balancing, caching and so much more. Depending on how it is configured, it can act as a reverse...

Over the last few months, I participated in two keynote panels where people asked questions about open source licensing:

• Do we need to redefine what open source means in the age of the cloud?
• Are cloud vendors abusing open source?
• Will open source, as we know it, survive?

Last year was the most eventful in my memory for the usually very conservative open source licensing space:

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From application deployment to provisioning, Ansible is a powerful open source tool for automating routine IT tasks. It can help an organization's IT run smoothly, with core IT processes networked and maintained. Ansible is an advanced IT orchestration solution, and it can be deployed even over a large, complex network infrastructure.

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Old challenges are new again. In this week's Command Line Heroes podcast (Season 3, Episode 5), that thought comes with a twist of programming languages and platforms.

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I think everyone can agree that the workplace has changed dramatically in the last decade—or is in the process of changing, depending on where you're currently working. The landscape has evolved. Distributed leadership, project-based work models, and cross-functional solution building are commonplace. In essence, the world is going open.

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Lauterbach to support JTAG debug for RISC-V Linux  eeNews Europe

Lauterbach, a Silver Member of the RISC-V Foundation, has announced full JTAG debug support for Linux running on systems based on the RISC-V Open ...

How To Compress Files In Windows, Mac, And Linux?  Fossbytes

Now that you know what is file compression and how to compress a file in Windows, Mac and Linux, you can store files at a much smaller size and save space ...

embedded computing mission-critical Linux  Military & Aerospace Electronics

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Aitech Defense Systems, Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., has ported the open-source Linux operating system onto the company's intelligent ...

Just hours ahead of the Mesa 19.2 feature freeze and days after the RadeonSI OpenGL driver added Renoir support, the RADV Vulkan driver has picked up support for this next-gen Zen 2 + Vega APU...

Adding to another creation being worked on by DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon, DSynth is a C rewrite of the FreeBSD originating Synth program that serves as a custom package repository builder...