Linux Distros That Matter

18 Apr

Kodachi Linux an open source anti-forensic distro – Linux Adictos

Kodachi is a Debian-based Linux distribution that comes with Tor, a VPN, and DNSCrypt. Desktop environment is integrated with custom scriptsso they allow them to manage everything using a good looking graphical interface. With the Conky utility you can view real-time information about your Internet connection. The assigned VPN IP, Tor country exit node, open ports, CPU and RAM spikes, as well as bandwidth consumption are displayed in the background while browsing the Internet. Secure cloud providers are integrated with the distribution, you can access Dropbox, SpiderOak or Wuala to upload files to the cloud. This is very useful when…

18 Apr

Veeam champions data freedom for customers with new Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support – ZAWYA

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18 Apr

Gentoo Linux Says NO to AI: Bans AI-Generated Code Submissions! – It’s FOSS News

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Not a single month goes by without seeing some new lawsuit or another that involves AI spewing out copyrighted content, and the companies behind it being dragged to court to explain themselves (they rarely do).The world of open-source software development has not been spared either; there have been reports where contributors tried passing off low-quality AI-generated work as their own, which then went on to create issues of their own.And as it stands, Gentoo Linux has now taken a big step in curbing such AI-generated nonsense. Let's see what they have done.Clamping Down on AI Before It Does DamageThe Gentoo…

18 Apr

Rocky Linux To Support Upstream Stable Kernels – Phoronix

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With the various Linux distributions derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we're beginning to see more features to distinguish between them rather than just "RHEL clones". It was just days ago talking about AlmaLinux restoring old hardware support that's been deprecated by upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Now over on the Rocky Linux side, CIQ as the principal organization behind them is rolling out support for upstream Linux kernels. CIQ announced this week that they will be supporting upstream stable kernels into Rocky Linux. They wrote in a press release: "CIQ, the company building the next generation of software…

18 Apr

iXsystems Unveils New TrueNAS M-Series Unified Storage Line – GlobeNewswire

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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iXsystems, the leader in Enterprise Open Source servers and software-defined storage, announced the TrueNAS M40 and M50 as the newest high-performance models in its hybrid, unified storage product line. The TrueNAS M-Series harnesses NVMe and NVDIMM to bring all-flash array performance to the award-winning TrueNAS hybrid arrays. It also includes the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Family of Processors and supports up to 100GbE and 32Gb Fibre Channel networking. Sitting between the all-flash TrueNAS Z50 and the hybrid TrueNAS X-Series in the product line, the TrueNAS M-Series delivers up to 10 Petabytes of highly-available…

18 Apr

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux – High-Performance Computing News Analysis – insideHPC

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RENO, Nev.—April 17, 2024—CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. CIQ said the new offering was built to meet the ultra-high performance, compatibility and security needs of the most advanced customers, and is now available to everyone. Development of the new offering stemmed from a storage use case where leveraging the large PCIe footprint of AMD EPYC processors was critical. Since then, additional use cases have emerged as organizations are realizing benefits of the upstream kernels. More information on support for upstream kernels can…

17 Apr

McGill University Selects iXsystems’ TrueNAS for Petabyte Deployment in School of Computer Science – Yahoo Singapore News

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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - November 17, 2016) - iXsystems announced that McGill University's School of Computer Science has deployed TrueNAS® in its various computing environments across the campus. The school has deployed multiple storage arrays to thousands of students, researchers and teachers. They use TrueNAS to share files over NFS, CIFS, and AFP.McGill's School of Computer Science runs almost exclusively on Open Source software. When McGill was looking for a replacement for their existing storage solution, they were aware that iXsystems develops FreeNAS, which is Open Source and the most widely used software defined storage (SDS) in the world. They…

17 Apr

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux, Uniting Stability, Compatibility, Security and Performance – PR Web

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CIQ provides these (upstream stable) kernels, which are designed to be compatible with and optimized for Rocky Linux. When modern kernels are coupled with the Rocky Linux user space, application compatibility remains consistent with all of the benefits of a much more recent kernel. Post this "Many of our customers with the most demanding workloads are realizing that to get the performance, efficiency, hardware compatibility and security they require, they need to run the upstream stable kernels," said Gregory Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ. "To meet these requirements, CIQ provides these kernels, which are designed to be compatible with and optimized…

17 Apr

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not – The Register

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The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions. The AlmaLinux project has announced the beta of version 9.4, with some small but intriguing differences from Red Hat's plans for RHEL 9.4. The Alma 9.4 beta follows 20 days after Red Hat announced the beta test of RHEL 9.4 and RHEL 8.10. As usual, the IBM subsidiary has a humongous set of release notes for the 9.4 beta, which in PDF form totals 167 pages. Highlights include new driver support for kit including Intel's Data Streaming Accelerator, NVMe-over-TCP, and support for DEP and…

17 Apr

Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off – The Register

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AI-generated and assisted code contributions are no longer allowed in the Gentoo Linux distribution. A ban on AI-made code was originally proposed on February 27 by Michał Górny, a member of Gentoo's council, an elected committee that governs the Linux distro. Górny argued for an AI ban for three major reasons: potential copyright infringement, quality control issues, and ethical considerations over AI's high power consumption and the role of major corporations in shaping the technology. Copyright is certainly becoming a chronic issue for AI models, which may or may not be trained on protected materials, with Nvidia one of the…