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  • A Guide to Open Source Platform Engineering

    A Guide to Open Source Platform Engineering

    Learn the steps to build a Kubernetes based, open source internal developer platform and why you should invest in platform engineering to beat ops sprawl. BILBAO — The rise of platform engineering in 2023 is part of a pendulum swinging back away from developer autonomy but not all the way back to Waterfall command and…

  • Faceoff: Open Source Security vs Commercial

    Faceoff: Open Source Security vs Commercial

    Developers don’t want fragmented tooling, too many alerts or dashboards. Instead, they need to have immense trust in the quality of the results of their security tools. The shift-left movement has done wonders with advancing many engineering disciplines over the past decade, and none have seen more progress than the security discipline, with regards to…

  • Proton 8.0-4 is now in testing with a Release Candidate

    Proton 8.0-4 is now in testing with a Release Candidate

    Valve snuck out a Release Candidate build for Proton 8.0-4 last week, which brings with it many improvements to the main stable version of the Windows compatibility layer for Steam Deck and desktop Linux. It’s in the RC stage, as Valve are looking for feedback on any issues that weren’t present in 8.0-3. Currently there’s…

  • Intel’s next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs: Finally, a rival to Apple SoC

    Intel’s next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs: Finally, a rival to Apple SoC

    Intel has taken the wraps off its forthcoming next-gen Meteor Lake processors following its successful 12th (Alder Lake) and 13th Gen (Raptor Lake) processors with its new E- and P-core design. Its first chip built on the Intel 4 process node with Foveros 3D packaging, Intel calls Meteor Lake its “biggest architectural shift in 40…

  • More Linux Malware Means More Linux Monitoring

    More Linux Malware Means More Linux Monitoring

    Forget about 2023 becoming “The Year of the Linux Desktop,” a popular slogan about growing Linux OS usage. It is already becoming the year of the Linux malware takeover. In the eyes of cybercriminals, Linux is now a more appealing target due to the computing platform’s potentially high return on their “investment.” Prevailing security countermeasures…

  • Announcing Fedora Linux 39 Beta

    Announcing Fedora Linux 39 Beta

    The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora Linux 39 Beta, the next step towards our planned Fedora Linux 39 release at the end of October. Get the the prerelease of any of our editions from our project website: Or, try one of our many different desktop variants (like KDE Plasma,…

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