Linux Gets Experimental Support For In-Kernel Hibernation Encryption

Intel's Chen Yu has sent out a set of patches providing experimental support for in-kernel encryption support for hibernation. In particular, this encryption support is about encrypting the hibernation image that is saved to the disk for the hibernation process. There are third-party ways to encrypt the hibernation image with an encrypted SWAP while this new code thanks to Intel is integrated within the kernel. Besides the kernel bits are also user-space code needed for generating the encryption key.

Coreboot Now Supports Directly Booting To A Linux Kernel FIT Image

Coreboot's latest development code now supports parsing and booting of FIT payloads. FIT in this context is a Flattened Image Tree that leverages DeviceTree. As of Tuesday in Coreboot Git is handling for booting of FIT payloads, which in turn basically means a Linux kernel image as a payload for Coreboot to boot directly upon hardware initialization.

Open Source Skills Soar In Demand According to 2018 Jobs Report

New 2018 Open Source Technology Jobs Report Released Today: Rapid Growth in Demand for Open Source Tech Talent

Another stepping stone forward (SysV 2.90)

Today I uploaded a new minor release of SysV init - version 2.90. This snapshot mostly fixes typos (in the source and Makefile), cleans up some old files and variables we were not using anymore, and adds some documentation. Basically, this is a house-keeping update.

SysVinit 2.90 Released With Fixes & Better Support For Newer Compilers

It's been a while since last having anything to report on the SysVinit init system for those wishing to live in a systemd-free world, but a new release is now available.

Fedora IoT and Home Assistant

How to change the hostname on Ubuntu 18.04

Troubleshooting Open vSwitch DPDK PMD Thread Core Affinity

Systemd Services: Monitoring Files and Directories

Wget Command Examples

Getting started with React Native animations

Anatomy of a perfect pull request

Red Hat unveils next-generation process automation offering

Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, has announced the launch of Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7, a comprehensive, cloud-native platform for developing business automation services and process-centric applications across hybrid cloud environments. Process Automation Manager is the next generation of Red Hat’s business process management (BPM) offering, Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite, and enables organisations to streamline, automate, measure and continuously improve business operations.

3 reasons cost isn't the best motivator for moving to the cloud [Ed: Red Hat's latest cloudwashing]

Red Hat extends new licence terms to all GPL projects

Open source vendor Red Hat has changed its licensing and in future all company projects that choose to use the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or the Lesser General Public Licence version 2 will have to include language from the GPLv3 that provides violators with time to rectify their offence. The GPLv2 and the LGPLv2 have language in them that says anyone who violates the terms of the licences immediately becomes non-compliant and does not have any means of redeeming themselves. The GPLv3 gives an offender time to come into compliance, with there being mechanisms for licence reinstatement when compliance errors were promptly fixed.

Red Hat (RHT) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

Red Hat Downgraded, Cloud Computing Growth May Hit Legacy Software

Stocks Extend Losses On Trade War Fears; Boeing, Red Hat, Alibaba Fall

Option Market Alert: Red Hat Inc Implied Price Swing Hits An Amplified Level

An Interesting Valuation Case? – Emerson Electric Co. (EMR), Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)

Debian Installer Buster Alpha 3 release

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third alpha release of the installer for Debian 10 "Buster".

Debian Installer Buster Alpha 3 Released

The third alpha release of the Debian Installer to be used by Debian 10 "Buster" is now available for testing. There are many changes to this updated Debian Installer with the last alpha release being from last December. This newest Debian Installer for Buster now uses Cryptsetup 2.0, updates to the Linux 4.16 kernel (rather than 4.13), locale choosing improvements, various flash-kernel updates, debootstrap improvements, and other changes.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2018

GSoC Status Update - First Month

In the past month I have been working on my GSoC project in Debian’s Distro Tracker. This project aims at designing and implementing new features in Distro Tracker to better support Debian teams to track the health of their packages and to prioritize their work efforts. In this post, I will describe the current status of my contributions, highlight the main challenges, and point the next steps.

I'm going to DebCamp18, Hsinchu, Taiwan

[Older] Linux Mint vs Ubuntu

There probably aren't two Linux distributions more closely related than Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Actually, the two are so close to one another, there's serious debate about whether or not they are the same distribution. Linux Mint takes Ubuntu and adds some extra polish to it. Mint has a different default configuration, some additional packages, and its own desktop environments. Otherwise, it's the same distribution as Ubuntu.