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Save 13% off this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle  Neowin

Today's highlighted deal comes via our Gear + Gadgets section of the Neowin Deals store, where for only a limited time you can save 13% off the VoCore2 Mini ...

Concurrent Real-Time Introduces RedHawk KVM-RT  Yahoo Finance

RedHawk Linux together with the KVM hypervisor offers guaranteed real-time performance in virtual environments POMPANO BEACH, Fla. , Sept. 11, 2019 ...

Google has rolled out Chrome 77 into their stable channel as the newest version of their lightning fast web browser for Linux...

Google Chrome 77 Is Out for Linux, Android, Windows & Mac with 52 Security Fixes  Softpedia News

Introduces new performance metrics and form capabilities.

AMD Trusted Memory Zone support is a new feature being worked on for their open-source graphics driver that works in conjunction with the graphics hardware for being able to encrypt portions of the video memory...

AMD "Trusted Memory Zone" Encrypted vRAM Support Coming To Their Linux GPU Driver  Phoronix

AMD Trusted Memory Zone support is a new feature being worked on for their open-source graphics driver that works in conjunction with the graphics hardware ...

Arm has now joined Intel, HP Enterprise, Google, Microsoft, Dell EMC, and others in backing the new Compute Express Link (CXL) effort as the interconnect for future accelerators...

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...