Linux Today - High Performance

Nixcraft: CoreFreq provides a framework to retrieve CPU data with a high degree of precision.

NetworkWorld: Carriers are starting to look more like cloud companies, turning to standard hardware, virtualization and machine learning for rapid development of new services.

Aaeon and Kii unveiled a "Smart Vending Now" platform that combines Aaeon's Atom-based UP SBC with Kii's cloud-based IoT platform for vending machines.

Gigabyte's "EL-30" IoT gateway offers a Pentium N4200, 8GB DDR3L, 32GB eMMC, dual GbE and HDMI, wide-range power, plus WiFi, BT, and optional 3G and ZigBee.

Linux.com: OpenContrail, an SDN platform used with the OpenStack cloud computing platform, is emerging as an essential tool around which administrators will need to develop skillsets.

PiBoards: RetrOrangePi is a retro gaming system that enables you to play games made for older gaming consoles like Nintendo, SEGA, Atari, etc.

HowToForge: There may not be many hardcore gamers who use Linux, but there certainly are quite a lot Linux users who like to play a game now and then.

LinuxGizmos: Olimex unveiled an open source, Linux-driven "Teres I" laptop with an 11.6-inch display, an Allwinner A64, 1GB RAM, 4GB eMMC, WiFi, and modular I/O boards.

GamingOnLinux: I had the pleasure of talking to Simon Roth, a developer I've followed for quite some time now about his game 'Maia', about Linux and other bits.

opensource.com: How to get started with Cozy, a robust self-hosted cloud platform.

ServerWatch: New release of commercially supported Kubernetes distribution updates with improved storage and network configuration options.

 Nixcraft: FreeBSD is an open source operating system.

 tecmint: With lower system requirements for Linux distributors than Windows, switching to Linux is a great way to rejuvenate an old computer.

Datamation: Advice about getting the most from your Ubuntu software – and avoiding those pesky problems.

ars technica: A bit of Linux, a bit of Nginx, and boom—fast and free Steam downloads.

The future of IoT will be driven in part by vast numbers of tiny, connected sensors or embedded computing devices situated on the edge of the network, enabling novel experiences

LinuxJournal: Basically, when switched on, the PowerBlock starts the Raspberry Pi.

GamingOnLinux: Mesa is progressing nicely as usual

Phoronix: Last week marked the release of Intel's Beignet 1.3, their open-source project implementing OpenCL acceleration atop modern CPUs with HD/Iris Graphics.

Avnet launched a cheaper, single-channel version of its dual-channel PicoZed SDR COM

Some of us don't mind waiting for a computer to boot.

A story of a beginner's first experience with his new LulzBot Mini 3D printer, an open hardware printer that supports a full open source programming...

 LinuxGizmos: Learn about MBARI's Linux-controlled Environmental Sampler Processor (ESP)

Phoronix: This article is intended for providing some reference DDR4 memory Linux benchmarks at different frequencies in conjunction with an Intel Core i5 7600K running on an ASUS PRIME Z270-P motherboard.

 LinuxGizmos: VIAs 3.5-inch "VAB-630" SBC deploys Android 5.0 on a dual-core, Cortex-A9 SoC, and provides optional touchscreen and wireless modules.

FreedomPenguin: Learn how to use Ubuntu Studio to create your very own Home Recording Studio using Linux.

SDXcentral: Arpit Joshipura became the Linux Foundation’s new general manager for networking and orchestration in December 2016.

Linux.com: Live virtual machine migration is crucial to the day-to-day management of modern cloud environments but may also be a weak link in your security. Learn how to recognize and avoid these common attacks.

Among the most exciting new features implemented so far, we can mention support for managing MACsec links, which requires wpa_supplicant 2.6 or later to be installed

ServerWatch: The Linux Foundation's Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is expanding its roster of hosted projects today with inclusion of the open-source Linkerd service mesh project.

 GamingOnLinux: Remember those days when there were only a handful of games on Linux?

LinuxGizmos: Pine64's open spec, 67.9 x 31mm "SoPine A64" computer-on-module has a quad-core -A53 Allwinner A64 and 2GB RAM

LinuxGizmos: Gumstix launched a customizable version of its LTE-enabled, PX4-compatible AeroCore 2 MAV controller board that works with the Intel Joule.

eWEEK: The Docker 1.13 release introduces multiple new commands including prune and squash, which can help containers to use disk space more efficiently.

LinuxAcademy: The purpose of this article is to show a full AWS environment built using the Terraform automation platform.

NetworkWorld: Microsoft announced that it has added support for the Intel-backed Clear Linux distribution in instances for its Azure public cloud platform.

Phoronix: Clear Linux on Intel graphics systems can even outperform Ubuntu and other more popular desktop distribution alternatives.

HowToForge: In this tutorial, I will show you how to install WordPress with HHVM and Nginx as web server and how to configure SELinux for WordPress.

eWEEK: New release of Red Hat's enterprise-grade container platform is based on the recent Kubernetes 1.4 milestone, adding new dynamic storage capabilities and an enhanced dashboard.