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Windows and Microsoft Office are being replaced with Linux and LibreOffice in this German state  TechSpot

Linux seeks lebensraum in Voleland for Germany  Fudzilla

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This how-to guide explains how to install the latest version of Apache, MySQL (or MariaDB), and PHP, along with the required PHP modules, on RHEL-based

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Best Linux distro for small business of 2024  TechRadar

Linux backdoor was a long con, possibly with nation-state support, experts say  Nextgov/FCW

The post A Shell Script to Monitor Network, Diske, Uptime, Load, and RAM in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The duty of a System Administrator is really tough as they have to monitor the servers, users, logs, create backups, and so on. For the

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German government switches 30000 PCs to Linux and migrates from Microsoft Office to open source LibreOffice  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Following up on their tweet earlier this week that they would be working to open-source more of their GPU software stack and hardware documentation, AMD now says they will be releasing documentation followed by the source code for their Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) IP block found within Radeon GPUs...

An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet  Cosmos

How to turn an old PC into a NAS  XDA Developers

Qt Creator 13 Released with Offline and Online Installers for Linux on ARM  9to5Linux

German State Migrating 30,000 Computers to Linux and LibreOffice  WebProNews

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice  ZDNet

Latest Ubuntu beta and other Linux distros delayed by xz-utils security issues  TechRadar

System76 Is Poised to Cause a COSMIC Shift In the Linux Desktop Space  WebProNews

After years being used by Ubuntu Server/Cloud, Ubuntu 23.10 began making use of Canonical's Netplan declarative network configuration software and now Netplan is fully ready to take on all duties with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. After seven years of development, Netplan 1.0 is ready for primetime use from servers to desktops...

The Linux xz Backdoor Episode: An Open Source Mystery  The New Stack

Earlier this week Wine developer Gabriel Ivăncescu with CodeWeavers laid out a great proposal: leveraging AI for assisting with the code review process for more punctual review and upstreaming of patches into the Wine codebase for this software that allows Windows games and apps to run on Linux and other platforms. While great in theory, at this stage just amounted to an April Fools' gag for Wine...

Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Last week being surprised to see a number of AMD EPYC performance gains with Linux 6.9 using that in-development kernel, I was curious about what other platforms may be benefiting from better performance on this kernel that will debut as stable in May. This week I turned to running some fresh benchmarks of Intel Xeon Max using the Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR. More than 230 benchmarks were carried out of Linux 6.8 stable versus Linux 6.9-rc2 in looking for any performance differences.