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A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a way of summarizing key facts about the software on a system. At the heart of it, it describes the set of software components and the dependency relationships between these components that are connected together to make up a system.

The Oracle Linux Sustaining team is tasked with identifying and fixing bugs in the Linux kernel. We rely on a rich ecosystem of debugging tools like crash and pykdump to help us pick up the remnants of a crashed kernel and figure out what led to its demise. But operating systems are complex, and sometimes our tools fail us. In these cases, we have to fall back on our understanding of the kernel subsystems and the target CPU architecture, since we find ourselves diving deep into hex dumps and assembly listings.

Adlink unveiled an “EOS-JNX Series” of Jetson Xavier NX based edge AI vision systems with 4x PoE ports. The EOS-JNX-I has 10/100Mbps PoE ports that support Onvif surveillance cams plus a 1Gb NVR uplink; the EOS-JNX-G has GbE PoE ports with GigE camera support.

How was your weekend? Ours was spent trying to persuade the first Asahi Linux Alpha release to run on some Apple silicon. The Alpha turned up at the end of last week and, sacrificial M1 Mac Mini in hand, we had a crack at firing up the distribution. Our hopes were not high – the poor device has also put in service running Insider builds of Windows on Arm (via the Parallels Desktop) and its disk was bulging with all manner of experimental software. But it all seemed boringly reliable considering the "alpha" and "proceed at your own risk" labels plastered over the distribution.

Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) provide means for building Layer 2 communication on top of existing IP networks. VPLS can be built using various approaches. However, when building a production-grade VPLS solution one needs to have a clear picture of how such aspects as security, mobility, and L2 issues will be solved.

Red Hat's OpenShift, a popular Kubernetes distro, includes the power to work with AI/ML in its latest update.

ICOP announced that its x86 based Vortex86 SoC is automatically detected by Linux 5.16, thereby enabling new non-legacy applications. The company recently launched a 3.5-inch “VDX3-6726” SBC and “VDX3-ETX” module based on the up to dual-core, 1GHz Vortex86DX3.

A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a way of summarizing key facts about the software on a system. At the heart of it, it describes the set of software components and the dependency relationships between these components that are connected together to make up a system.

Asahi Linux – the most prominent effort to create a Linux distribution for Apple's M1 silicon – has loosed what project lead Hector Martin has described as "a very early alpha release."

A quick overview is often all I need to determine what is going on with my Linux system. But there is so much more to the top command than meets the eye.

Applying mathematical concepts to FOSS deployments provides new and interesting ways of understanding the interrelated nature of open source software.

The Snap package manager is a modern package manager in Linux that allows you to install Snap packages across a wide range of Linux distributions and versions. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and use Snap Package Manager on Alma Linux 8.

The Linux Mint project has announced version 5 of its Debian edition, code-named Elsie. Linux Mint is one of the longest-running and most polished distros downstream of Ubuntu, and really took off after Ubuntu switched to the controversial Unity desktop with 11.04. Around that time, Mint 12 retained a Windows-like look and feel that later evolved into the Cinnamon desktop.

Want to use Linux on your Chromebook? Check out these eight distributions that offer better features and enhanced performance than Chrome OS.

The Linux set and pipefail commands dictate what happens when a failure occurs in a Bash script. There’s more to think about than should it stop or should it carry on.

The lead developer of the bcachefs filesystem is gunning to get it accepted into the Linux kernel… again. The story of bcachefs is quite long-running, and this isn't the first time – nor even the first time this year the project has attempted this. The filesystem has been around for a while; The Reg first reported on it in 2015. But it looks like it's getting closer to its goal.

In this guide, we will present some of the commonly used command-line-based tools for monitoring system performance. We are using Ubuntu 20.04 OS for this guide, although the tools we are going to discuss are available for most Linux-based distros.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is pulling in new members from the world of mainframes, hosting and IT services to contribute to the project and deliver a community-supported Linux compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Mistral’s “AI-SFK Lite” system runs Linux on its Jetson Xavier NX powered Neuron Base Board Basic with a 250GB SSD, GbE, HDMI 2.0, CAN, etc., and adds Mistral’s 77GHz mmWave Radar module and a CSI-based 8MP/4K camera.

Last year, the Graph Foundation had to rethink how it develops and distributes its Open Native Graph Database (ONgDB) after it settled a trademark and copyright claim by database biz Neo4j. The Graph Foundation agreed [PDF] it would no longer claim specific versions of ONgDB, its Neo4j Enterprise Edition fork, are a "100 percent free and open source version" of Neo4J EE. And last month, two other companies challenged by Neo4j – PureThink and iGov – were also required by a court ruling to make similar concessions.