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Zorin OS 15.3 is now available to download. The release serves as the latest update in the Zorin OS 15 series which is supported until 2023. The team behind the user-friendly Linux distro say this update is “…focused on strengthening the core essentials of the operating system to bring you the features and reliability that help you work, play, and … Read More

In 2019, Red Hat announced that we were including Red Hat Insights with every Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription. Now in 2020, we have expanded the capabilities that Insights includes and we wanted to take this opportunity to review what these expanded capabilities means to you, and to share some of the basics of Red Hat Insights. We wanted … Read More

Nextcloud GmbH announces today the general availability of version 3.0 of the Nextcloud Desktop Client as an important milestone that finally implements enterprise-grade E2EE (end-to-end encryption) technology. End-to-end encryption is probably one of the most requested features in Nextcloud, the most popular on-premises file share and collaboration platform. With the release of Nextcloud Desktop Client 3.0, Nextcloud has become the … Read More

To learn more, attend this co-hosted webinar with our partner DcData on Thursday 11 June 2020 at 2 pm (GMT+2). Discover Zimbra 9’s EXTENSIBILITY and much more. It’s an exciting time to check out Zimbra! Why? Because our new product Zimbra 9 is here! Zimbra 9 is a real alternative to any other email solutions with: A responsive, React-based UI … Read More

A quick overview of a lightweight professional computer for Linux users by Matthew Broberg (Red Hat) Why this laptop? I want to continue my road to Linux as the main operating system of my life, and I like to support my company’s participation in open source. Ports were important (USB-C is a must, USB-A is nice to have), but the … Read More

Closely following the developing news of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic over the preceding months, DcData took early and extreme steps to not only reduce infection risk but also applied additional focus on ensuring continuity of our vital technical expertise and business services. Our “work from home” policy was successfully implemented and mandated early on the 18th of March – the use of DcData’s … Read More

After several years of building and testing previews, Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of its Azure Sphere secure IoT service. Microsoft first introduced Azure Sphere in 2018, opting to use its own version of a Linux operating system instead of Windows 10 to drive its new Azure Sphere OS to securely connect Internet of Things devices. Azure Sphere … Read More

Phoronix’s Michael Larabel is doing some performance testing on Walmart’s $199 Motile-branded M141 laptop (which has an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor, Vega 3 graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 14-inch 1080p display). But first, he compared the performance of its pre-installed Windows 10 OS against the forthcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux distribution. Some highlights: Java text rendering performance did … Read More

Hailed as the last good version of Windows by many, Windows 7 is now officially retired. Zorin OS’s creators know this leaves a massive chunk of users with a choice between two equally uncomfortable solutions: upgrade to Windows 10 or jump ship to Linux. This is primarily the user group Zorin OS targets and, to Microsoft’s chagrin and as we’ll … Read More

This week a former engineer for the Microsoft Windows Core OS Division shared an insightful (and very entertaining) list with “some changes I have noticed over the last 20 years” in the computer programming world. Some excerpts: Some programming concepts that were mostly theoretical 20 years ago have since made it to mainstream including many functional programming paradigms like immutability, … Read More

With the article about the NUMA improvements to FreeBSD’s network stack made by Netflix in their quest to serve 200Gb/s encrypted video content per server, in no time the forum comments were quick to theorize whether those changes would work their way back upstream to all FreeBSD users or due to the BSD license would be held as a guarded … Read More

As of this morning in the Linux kernel Git source tree, the kernel weighs in at 27.8 million lines! The stats as we start 2020 put the Linux kernel source tree at 27,852,148 lines (including docs, Kconfig files, user-space utilities in-tree, etc), 887,925 commits, and around 21,074 different authors. The 27.8 million lines are divided among 66,492 files. During 2019, … Read More

“That belongs in a museum!” The Computer Museum of America is home to an impressive collection of consumer technology from the past century, as well as more than 70 supercomputers. The collection has actually been growing for years, but only now has the museum been able to secure a permanent location Being able to see so many retro computers was … Read More