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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield
Desktop Trends in 2013 Bruce takes some time to look at LinuxQuestions' Member Choice Awards for trends. This year they suggest some interesting trends on the desktop.
Tin Hats vs. Red Hat * Bruce Byfield
Ordinarily, I avoid anything to do with Roy Schestowitz and TechRights. The interaction is rarely worth the seemingly compulsive abuse that I inevitably receive. However, Schestowitz's recent claim that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) includes a back door for the NSA is an exception – especially since the story has been picked up by FOSS Force, where, despite the site's skeptical coverage of the claim, its latest poll shows that 34% believe the story, and 27% don't know what to think.
Productivity Sauce * Dmitri Popov
Monitor Your Server with Linux Dash Linux Dash is a new addition to the growing list of server monitoring utilities.
Keep Tabs on Income and Expenses with My Expenses for Android Several traits set My Expenses apart from the myriad of other expense-tracking apps for Android.
Paw Prints * Jon "maddog" Hall
To Have a Warranty or Not to Have a Warranty ... That is the Question Recently the Affordable Care Act (ACA, otherwise known as "Obamacare") has dominated the news of the United States. Whether you are for it or against it makes no difference to this blog post, but there are a lot of similarities between health insurance, car insurance, and computer system warranties that make for an interesting comparison.
ADMIN HPC * http://hpc.admin-magazine.com/
Monitoring HPC Systems: What Should You Monitor? By Jeff Layton
One goal of HPC administration is effective monitoring of clusters. In this article, I talk about writing code that measures processor and memory metrics on each node.
The Lua Scripting Language By Oliver Frommel
Is this powerful but simple scripting language big enough for Big Data?
ADMIN Online * http://www.admin-magazine.com/
Logging with systemd By Thorsten Scherf
In most cases, log messages are managed by a Syslog server. The Fedora project wants to take a new approach in the future, which is to come from systemd's journal.
PostgreSQL 9.3 By Bernd Helmle
The new PostgreSQL 9.3 release introduces several speed and usability improvements, as well as SQL standards compliance.
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NVIDIA Released Driver for Upcoming NVIDIA 560 GPU for Linux
Not only has NVIDIA released the driver for its upcoming CPU series, it's the first release that defaults to using open-source GPU kernel modules.
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OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 Released
If you’re into rolling release Linux distributions, OpenMandriva ROME has a new snapshot with a new kernel.
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Kernel 6.10 Available for General Usage
Linus Torvalds has released the 6.10 kernel and it includes significant performance increases for Intel Core hybrid systems and more.
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TUXEDO Computers Releases InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 Laptop
Sporting either AMD or Intel CPUs, the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 is an extremely compact, lightweight, sturdy powerhouse.
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Google Extends Support for Linux Kernels Used for Android
Because the LTS Linux kernel releases are so important to Android, Google has decided to extend the support period beyond that offered by the kernel development team.
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Linux Mint 22 Stable Delayed
If you're anxious about getting your hands on the stable release of Linux Mint 22, it looks as if you're going to have to wait a bit longer.
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Nitrux 3.5.1 Available for Install
The latest version of the immutable, systemd-free distribution includes an updated kernel and NVIDIA driver.
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Debian 12.6 Released with Plenty of Bug Fixes and Updates
The sixth update to Debian "Bookworm" is all about security mitigations and making adjustments for some "serious problems."
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Canonical Offers 12-Year LTS for Open Source Docker Images
Canonical is expanding its LTS offering to reach beyond the DEB packages with a new distro-less Docker image.
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Plasma Desktop 6.1 Released with Several Enhancements
If you're a fan of Plasma Desktop, you should be excited about this new point release.