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Intel oneAPI Toolkits 2022 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 22:21
Intel has now made their oneAPI Toolkits 2022 release publicly available after announcing it earlier this quarter...

AMD AOCC 3.2 Helps Squeeze A Bit More Out Of Zen 3

Phoronix - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 19:00
Released earlier this month was AMD's AOCC 3.2 compiler based on LLVM/Clang/Flang that provides optimized support for AMD Zen processors. I've been running some benchmarks of AOCC 3.2 compared to prior AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler releases and this newest release has been helpful in squeezing a bit more out of Zen 3.

Linux 5.17 Will Have An Important Intel P-State Update For Alder Lake Mobile CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 18:12
Linux 5.17 will have a seemingly important fix for upcoming Intel Alder Lake mobile processors. Without this change/fix, you might not see the advertised one-core turbo frequencies being met for your processor depending upon the system and whether tuning your EPP...

5 open source security resources from 2021

opensource.com - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 16:01

One of the most prevalent discussions on Opensource.com in 2021 was about the security and privacy of your own data. A noticeable theme was that your data is yours and that passwords were key to security. This year's security authors provided helpful tips and open source tools for keeping your data and hardware secure.

Here is my top-five countdown of this year's security journey.


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Implement governance on your Kubernetes cluster

opensource.com - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 16:00

When you work with Kubernetes, it slowly becomes your production temple. You invest time and resources into developing and nurturing it, and you naturally begin looking for ways to control the Kubernetes end user in your organization. What can it do? What resources can it create? Can it label two deployments in a specific way? Which best practices should we follow?

Meet OPA Gatekeeper. This article will show you how to use it to create and enforce policies and governance for your Kubernetes clusters so the resources you apply comply with that policy.


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Create your own animations with this open source motion graphics tool

opensource.com - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 16:00

In animation, there's an old saying that animation is easy, it's the tweening that's hard. In traditional animation practices established in the 1920s, key frames are drawn by a lead artist, and staff artists draw the in-between frames. This is called inbetweening, or "tweening" for short. Today, computers are often recruited for the work of inbetweening. In the words of Tony DeRose, of Pixar:


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How to Install, Create and Manage LXC (Linux Containers) in Ubuntu/Debian

Tecmint - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 14:28
The post How to Install, Create and Manage LXC (Linux Containers) in Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Over the last decade, the open-source community has seen a steady shift to containerization as the preferred way of deploying applications thanks to the numerous benefits it offers such as portability, flexibility, increased security,

The post How to Install, Create and Manage LXC (Linux Containers) in Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Red Hat selects the National Park Foundation as top recipient of 2021 U.S. corporate holiday donation

Red Hat News - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 13:00

For the fourteenth year in a row, Red Hatters based in the United States took an active role in selecting a charitable organization to be the beneficiary of our U.S. corporate holiday donation. During the process, more than 140 charities were nominated, and more than 1,100 associates participated in the final vote. This year, we used a cumulative voting approach, which allowed associates to rank their top five organizations from the initial list.

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