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Three years ago we checked out the CompuLab Airtop as a high-performance fanless PC. Back then it was exciting to passively cool an Intel Core i7 5775C, 16GB of RAM, SATA 3.0 SSD, and a GeForce GTX 950 graphics card. But now in 2019 thanks to the continued design improvements by CompuLab and ever advancing tech, their newly-launched CompuLab 3 can accommodate an eight-core / sixteen-thread Xeon CPU, 64GB of RAM, NVMe SSD storage, and a NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card without any fans!

For several generations now of Intel graphics there have been the GuC/HuC firmware binaries while beginning with Icelake "Gen 11" graphics those binary blobs will be loaded by default...

Hana Large Instances And Linux On Azure  E3zine.com

Leveraging hybrid and multi-cloud with SAP is the new normal, and Suse Linux can also support SAP Hana Large Instances on Microsoft Azure.

GitLab Survey Reveals Disconnect Between Developer And Security Teams  Linux.com

In a survey conducted by GitLab, software professionals recognize the need for security to be baked into the development lifecycle, but the survey showed ...

How to master user groups on Linux  Network World

Managing user groups on Linux systems is easy, but the commands can be more flexible than you might be aware.

Later this month marks two years since the release of OpenGL 4.6 and just ahead of that date it looks like Mesa could finally land its complete GL 4.6 implementation, at least as far as the Intel open-source graphics driver support is concerned...

Malicious Python libraries targeting Linux servers removed from PyPI  ZDNet

Security firm scanned over one million PyPI packages and found three backdoored libraries.

Vince Calandra  Linux Journal

Vince Calandra is Sr. Manager of Industrial and Medical accounts at Wind River. In his role, he is responsible for supporting customer adoption of Wind River ...

When Choosing Your Commercial Linux, Choose Wisely!  Linux Journal

“Linux is Linux is Linux,” is a direct quote I heard in a meeting I had recently with a major multi-national, critical-infrastructure company. Surprisingly and correctly ...

While it would have been nice seeing this next systemd release sooner due to the Zen 2 + RdRand issue with systemd yielding an unbootable system (that is now also being worked around with a BIOS upgrade), the systemd 243 release looks like it will take place in the near future...

The past few months openSUSE developers have been working on enabling LTO by default for its packages while now finally with the newest release of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed this goal has been accomplished...

Linux Operating System Market 2019-2025 Study & Future Prospects Including key players IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE etc.  Rise Media

New Research Study on Linux Operating System Market Growth of 2019-2025: Linux Operating System Market sheds light on critical market dynamics such as ...

OPNsense, the FreeBSD-based pfSense-forked firewall offering that has continued experiencing increased adoption following the closure of m0n0wall, is out with version 19.7 as its newest feature update...

User Directory or Userdir is an Apache module, which allows user-specific directories to be retrieved through an Apache web server using the http://example.com/~user/ syntax. For example, when the mod_userdir module is enabled, users accounts...

Checking Out Machine Check Exception (MCE) Errors in Linux  CNX Software

Machine Check Exception (MCE) are hardware errors reported by the CPU. Let's see how we can check out these errors in Linux with mcelog or rasdaemon.

Linux Mint 19.2 beta is now out with a streamlined Cinnamon spin  TechRadar

Linux Mint 19.2 has been released as a beta, and it comes in three different flavors, each with a different desktop environment as a default. Advertisement.

Longtime X.Org developer Alan Coopersmith who also maintains the X.Org stack for Oracle's Solaris has been trying to get out some updated X.Org modules with different code-bases having collected enough changes over the years to warrant new versions...

I've been a gadget person as long as I can remember, so I was delighted when I discovered an Adafruit Circuit Playground Express (CPX) in the swag bag I got at PyConUS in May. I became fascinated with these little devices last year, when Nina Zakharenko highlighted them in her All Things Open presentation, Five Things You Didn't Know Python Could Do, with Python-powered earrings.

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Spreadsheets can be very useful—and not just for managing your finances. That said, desktop spreadsheets have their limitations. The biggest is that you need to be at your computer to use one. On top of that, collaborating on a spreadsheet can quickly become a messy affair.

Enter EtherCalc, an open source, web-based spreadsheet. While not as fully featured as a desktop spreadsheet, EtherCalc packs enough features for most people.

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In my previous post, I walked Mac users through the steps they’ll take to install Elasticsearch, the world’s most popular enterprise search engine. (Here's a separate article for Linux users.) Its natural language processing power makes Elasticsearch excel at finding details within datasets.

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