July 1, 2020
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Linux Mint recently released its latest long-term support (LTS) version of its popular desktop Linux desktop, Linux Mint 20, “Ulyana.” This edition, based on Canonical‘s Ubuntu 20.04, is, once more, an outstanding Linux desktop distribution.
Linux Mint 20: Still the best Linux desktop despite one quirk More>
June 30, 2020
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At the virtual Open Source Summit, The Linux Foundation announced the SODA Foundation, formerly OpenSDS, is adding open-source software and standards to its efforts to support data autonomy. It will do this by hosting an open-source, unified, and autonomous data management framework for data mobility from core to cloud to edge.
June 30, 2020
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The Open Invention Network (OIN) is the largest patent non-aggression community in history. Its chief job is protecting Linux and open-source friendly companies from patent attacks. Now, Baidu, the largest Chinese language search engine and one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) firms in the world, has joined OIN.
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June 29, 2020
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Once more, at The Linux Foundation‘s virtual Open Source Summit, VMware‘s Chief Open Source Officer, Dirk Hohndel, and Linux’s creator, Linus Torvalds had a wide-ranging conversation about Linux development.
Linus Torvalds on the future of Linux kernel developers and development More>
June 29, 2020
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At the virtual Open Source Summit, The Linux Foundation announced it was joining forces with the FinOps Foundation. Their mutual goal is to advance the discipline of FinOps through best practices, education, and standards.
FinOps combines systems, best practices, and culture to help organizations understand cloud costs and IT benefits. In the same way that DevOps revolutionized development by breaking down the barriers between developers and operators and increasing agility, FinOps increases the cloud’s business value by bringing together technology, business, and finance professionals with a new set of processes.
FinOps Foundation joins The Linux Foundation to nail down best cloud financial practices More>
June 26, 2020
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We all use the cloud, but measuring cloud performance is difficult. I should know. I’ve written benchmarks, and I benchmarked the major public clouds for PC Magazine using Primate Labs’ Geekbench 3 and other programs, which, frankly, weren’t ideal for testing clouds. But now Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community have released the CloudXPRT Preview, a free benchmark, which seeks to accurately measure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud performance.
Principled Technologies releases first true cloud performance benchmarks More>