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Acer Begins Publishing UEFI Firmware Updates For Linux Users On LVFS For Fwupd  Phoronix

Following a lengthy evaluation period, Acer is the latest hardware manufacturer offering firmware updates for their products via the Linux Vendor Firmware ...

Following a lengthy evaluation period, Acer is the latest hardware manufacturer offering firmware updates for their products via the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easily applying these updates from the Linux desktop with Fwupd...

With the big GNOME 3.34 release coming out this week, the GNOME 3.36 release schedule has now been published...

Intel engineer Feng Tang spoke at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on how the Clear Linux team managed to boot their kernel faster. They started out with around a three second kernel boot time but cut it down to just 300 ms...

How Intel's Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms  Phoronix

Intel engineer Feng Tang spoke at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on how the Clear Linux team managed to boot their kernel faster.

Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that's a good thing)  Ars Technica

If you skipped the last release, Debian 10 (Buster) should encourage an update into 2019.

Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good thing)  Ars Technica

The Debian project, the upstream mother of countless Linux distributions, has released Debian 10, also known as "Buster." And yes, that's a reference to the ...

The EXT4 case-insensitive lookup optimization added to the file-system with the current Linux 5.3 cycle has been ported to the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) for the upcoming Linux 5.4...

A new release of MoltenVK is now available that is updated against Vulkan 1.1.121 for allowing much of this graphics/compute API to function under Apple's macOS and iOS platforms by remapping the Vulkan calls to Metal...

Ansible is an open source IT configuration management and automation platform. It uses human-readable YAML templates so users can program repetitive tasks to happen automatically without having to learn an advanced programming language.

Ansible is agentless, which means the nodes it manages do not require any software to be installed on them. This eliminates potential security vulnerabilities and makes overall management smoother.

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Despite my 15 years of experience in the Linux infrastructure space, if you had asked me a year ago what a mainframe was, I'd be hard-pressed to give a satisfying technical answer. I was surprised to learn that the entire time I'd been toiling away on x86 machines in various systems administration roles, Linux was running on the s390x architecture for mainframes. In fact, 2019 marks 20 years of IBM's involvement in Linux on the mainframe, with purely community efforts predating that by a year.

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If your day-to-day as a developer, system administrator, full-stack engineer, or site reliability engineer involves Git pushes, commits, and pulls to and from GitHub and deployments to Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is a persistent concern. Fortunately, open source tools are available to help your team avoid common mistakes that could cost your organization thousands of dollars.

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Java is a fast, secure, reliable, and popular, general-purpose programming language and computing platform. Java is more than just a language, it is a technology platform with many interconnected capabilities. To run Java-based applications...

Just a few weeks after Intel's i965 OpenGL driver in Mesa added GL 4.6 support, the "Iris" Gallium3D driver is now exposing OpenGL 4.6 support too...

While Fedora 31 isn't even out yet, looking ahead to the Fedora 32 release next spring is a plan to switch firewalld as Fedora's default network firewall from its existing iptables back-end to the more modern nftables back-end...

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 beta, we included a new utility for generating tailored SELinux policies for containers. To learn what Udica offers, why you might want to start testing Udica, and how to get started, read on! 

Reactive Foundation Launched Under the Linux Foundation  InfoQ.com

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AMD Ryzen 5 3600X & Ryzen 5 3400G Performance In Linux  Techgage

Following-up on our coverage of AMD's 8 and 12-core launch Ryzen 3000-series chips, we're now turning our attention to a couple of options that will not break ...

Intel's open-source crew has released version 0.2 of its primarily Rust-developed Cloud Hypervisor and associated firmware also in Rust...

Chrome 77 for Mac, Windows rolling out: ‘Send this page’ sharing, new favicon animation, more  9to5Google

Google is rolling out the latest version of Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Chrome 77 more widely introduces the “Send this page” cross-device sharing ...