It’s Black Friday: But what’s the business (and developer) cost of downtime?
Black Friday is back, and, as you've probably already noticed, with a considerable vengeance. According to Adobe Analytics data, online spending is predicted to...
Linux is reverting the STIBP support due to major slowdowns in Linux 4.20
Linux 4.20 has shown major performance issues and the reason behind this regression was Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP), as shared by Phoronix yesterday. This support is being reverted from the...
The Linux and RISC-V foundations team up to drive open source development and adoption...
Yesterday, the Linux Foundation announced that they are joining hands with the RISC-V Foundation to drive the open source development and adoption of the...
FreeBSD 12.0 is now out!
Yesterday, the FreeBSD release engineering team announced the availability of FreeBSD 12.0, which marks the first release of the stable/12 branch. This version is...
OpenSSH, now a part of the Windows Server 2019
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that the OpenSSH client and server are available as a supported feature-on-Demand in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 1809.
OpenSSH is...
Key trends in software infrastructure in 2019: observability, chaos, and cloud complexity
Software infrastructure has, over the last decade or so, become a key concern for developers of all stripes. Long gone are narrowly defined job...
Windows Server 2019 comes with security, storage and other changes
Today, Microsoft unveiled new features of Windows Server 2019. The new features are based on four themes—hybrid, security, application platform, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI).
General...
Bash 5.0 is here with new features and improvements
GNU project made version 5.0 of its popular POSIX shell Bash ( Bourne Again Shell) available yesterday. Bash 5.0 explores new improvements and features...
Black Hat hackers used IPMI cards to launch JungleSec Ransomware, affects most of the...
Unsecured IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) cards are preparing a gateway for the JungleSec ransomware that affected multiple Linux servers. The ransomware attack was...
GeoServer 2.14.2 rolled out with accessible WMTS binding,improved style editor and more
Last week, GeoServer 2.14.2 was released., GeoServer is an open source software server based on Java, for sharing geospatial data. It allows users to...