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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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16 Apr

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta ‘Seafoam Ocelot’ now available – BetaNews

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The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has officially released the beta version of AlmaLinux 9.4, codenamed “Seafoam Ocelot,” available for various hardware architectures including Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le), and IBM Z (s390x). Enthusiasts and developers can access the beta ISOs here. As with any beta software, the Foundation advises against using this release in production environments. It is essential to follow this guidance, especially when considering upgrades from previous versions, as beta versions can lead to unexpected issues that could disrupt operational systems. AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta introduces several security enhancements and data protection features to bolster machine security. Notable…
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16 Apr

Oracle Linux 9 Update 3 is now generally available, as expected! – Oracle

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Skip to content Accessibility Policy Oracle Oracle Linux Blog Search Exit Search Field Clear Search Field Select Language Menu <!-- --> CATEGORIES Announcements Events Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Partners Perspectives Technologies Back Technologies Ksplice Linux Kernel Development Linux Toolchain & Tracing Training RELATED CONTENT Wim Coekaert's blog Hardware Cert. List ISV Catalog Validated Configs Developers GitHub Open Source <!-- Previous Post NVMe In-band Authentication Alan Adamson | 8 min read Next Post Behind the scenes of your most trusted cloud platform Simon Coter | 6 min read Resources for About Careers Developers Investors Partners Startups Why Oracle Analyst Reports Best CRM…
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16 Apr

RebornOS is a beautiful, user-friendly take on Arch Linux with desktop options galore – ZDNet

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Jack Wallen/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysRebornOS is a beautiful, user-friendly take on Arch Linux that is available now and can be installed for free.RebornOS offers a desktop environment for just about any user type (selected during installation).The pre-installed app store is broken and has to be replaced with another.RebornOS is built by a team of developers, artists, and other individuals with one important goal: to make Arch Linux as user-friendly as possible. I can say, wholeheartedly, that the team has achieved that goal. RebornOS makes Arch Linux easy to use and, with the right desktop, an adventure in fun and elegance. Also: Dynebolic is…
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16 Apr

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL – Phoronix

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Show Your Support: This site is primarily supported by advertisements. Ads are what have allowed this site to be maintained on a daily basis for the past 19+ years. We do our best to ensure only clean, relevant ads are shown, when any nasty ads are detected, we work to remove them ASAP. If you would like to view the site without ads while still supporting our work, please consider our ad-free Phoronix Premium. AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is out today for this popular community-oriented Linux distribution derived from upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Besides pulling in the RHEL 9.4 Beta…
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15 Apr

Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience – Phoronix

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Archinstall 2.8 is out today as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it much faster deploying this popular Linux distribution. Archinstall 2.8 mostly comes down to a bug fix release but has a few notable changes over prior versions. Archinstall 2.8 increases the EFI System Partition (ESP) size to 1GB rather than 512MB, fixes Btrfs mount options handling, fixes enabling of Arch Linux testing repositories, fixing custom mirror handling for Pacman, and adding a number of other bug fixes. Plus there is documentation updates as well as various translation updates. Downloads and more details…
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15 Apr

TrueNAS Scale arrays place open source HCI into spotlight – TechTarget

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Open source vendor iXsystems has tuned TrueNAS storage for scale-out converged infrastructure.In a move it telegraphed in August, iXsystems this week formally launched the TrueNAS Scale HCI platform. The system packages scale-out OpenZFS storage with x86-based TrueNAS storage servers.TrueNAS Scale is available as open source software built on Debian Linux, or as an integrated system based on TrueNAS X-Series, M-Series and new R-Series appliances. The R-Series expands the TrueNAS lineup with four models designed for density and performance. For cloud service providers, iXsystems has added managed NAS services and fleet automation via its TrueCommand SaaS management software.TrueNAS Scale is the…
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