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Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > today's leftovers today's leftovers By Roy Schestowitz Created 19/02/2021 - 7:58pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 19th of February 2021 07:58:27 PM Filed under Misc [1] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio [2] As linux-lts moved to the 5.10 version, all official kernels of Arch Linux now support zstd compressed initramfs images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by default with version 30, which is currently on [testing]. Technically Speaking (S1E01): Edge computing covered and diced - YouTube[3] What is edge computing, and what does it mean for data workloads, latency, and our precious, precious bandwidth? Red Hat CTO Chris Wright reboots Technically Speaking in this first episode where we explore edge computing. Virtualization?s role in next-generation infrastructure [4] Enterprises have always used multiple generations of technology simultaneously. Enterprise applications need to be deployed into both VMs and containers, and enterprises need a converged platform to support both. So the question IT people have to answer is, "How can we manage existing applications running on virtual machines and new applications running on containers together in an unified platform?" That is the mission of the open source project, KubeVirt. Downstream of that, Red Hat introduced OpenShift Virtualization (a.k.a. Container Native Virtualization) within the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, a Kubernetes based platform. NeoPixel fireflies jar with Raspberry Pi | HackSpace 39 [5] Security updates for Friday [6] Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, libbsd, openssl1.0, php-horde-text-filter, qemu, and unrar-free), Fedora (kiwix-desktop and libntlm), Mageia (coturn, mediawiki, privoxy, and veracrypt), openSUSE (buildah, libcontainers-common, podman), Oracle (kernel, nss, and perl), Red Hat (xterm), SUSE (java-1_7_1-ibm, php74, python-urllib3, and qemu), and Ubuntu (libjackson-json-java and shiro). SecureCRT 9.0 and SecureFX 9.0 from VanDyke Software Adds Built-in Support for RDP and Platform Support for Ubuntu 20.04 [7] [Ed: RDP is, by default, not secure [8], so this is proprietary software non-solution in search of a problem GNU/Linux users do not have and should not bother with] VanDyke Software®, a developer of multi-platform secure terminal emulation and secure file transfer software, today announced the official releases of SecureCRT® 9.0 and SecureFX® 9.0. Misc Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147883 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/78 [2] https://archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zstandard-images-by-default-on-mkinitcpio/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AleRxFFiYVY [4] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/virtualizations-role-next-generation-infrastructure [5] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/neopixel-fireflies-jar-with-raspberry-pi-hackspace-39/ [6] https://lwn.net/Articles/846787/rss [7] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/securecrt-9-0-and-securefx-9-0-from-vandyke-software-adds-built-in- support-for-rdp-and-platform-support-for-ubuntu-20-04--301231376.html [8] http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA.