Linux Distros That Matter

19 Apr

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux – HPCwire

RENO, Nev., April 17, 2024 — CIQ, the company building the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises, today launched fully supported, upstream stable kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, providing enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. The new offering from CIQ 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…

19 Apr

AlmaLinux in the Cloud: Support and Management Best Practices – Security Boulevard

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Management and support are key components for the efficient utilization of an operating system in cloud computing environments. Adopting security best practices like regular updates, disabling unnecessary services, and configuring firewalls are essential. TuxCare’s Enterprise Support for AlmaLinux offers several key benefits, making it an indispensable partner for managing AlmaLinux deployments. AlmaLinux is a fully open-source Linux distribution with clear upgrade paths. It is a perfect operating system to allow for scalability – whether you are a startup, an established business, or trying to enter a new space. After the major change introduced with CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux has been…

19 Apr

Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week – Phoronix

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18 Apr

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

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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…