Open-source News

An Optimization Proposed For GNOME + NVIDIA On High Refresh Rate Displays  Phoronix

Adding to the growing list of Mesa 22.0 features are more Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver improvements to help with gaming performance...

Resizable BAR support (also known as ReBAR / AMD Smart Access Memory) has been popular with gamers for supported configurations for being able to improve GPU performance. Intel is now working on enabling the Linux kernel to support Resizable BAR when in the context of I/O Virtualization...

Synthesizers have been attempting to emulate real-world musical instruments for decades. Famous synthesist Wendy Carlos worked hard to understand (and document, in her Secrets of Synthesis album) how synthesizers could capture the intent of music initially written for physical instruments. Musicians came to understand, though, that if you wanted to capture the exact sound and feel of an instrument, you had to record it, and the Mellotron famously pioneered this idea with tape loops connected to a keyboard.

read more

One of the strengths of Kubernetes is scheduling. It handles application pod placement across nodes in a cluster and their resource allocation, so you don't have to worry about balancing resources yourself. When it runs out of resources, Kubernetes can evict pods—but how does Kubernetes decide which pod to evict?

Kubernetes pods and resources

While a pod can hold multiple containers, for the purpose of this article, I will discuss them as a single object.

read more

After a long and complex diagnostic process, I recently came to the realization that I am autistic (I write more about that on LinkedIn). This knowledge is providing me with new insights—into my life, memorable episodes from my past, and the ways I navigate the world. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of this is how I've managed my career.

read more

The post 11 Cron Scheduling Task Examples in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we are going to review and see how we can schedule and run tasks in the background automatically at regular intervals using the Crontab command. Dealing with a frequent job manually

The post 11 Cron Scheduling Task Examples in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The post Linux Performance Monitoring with Vmstat and Iostat Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This is our ongoing series of Linux Commands and Linux Performance Monitoring, in this article, you will learn about Vmstat and Iostat commands, which are available on all major Unix-like (Linux/Unix/FreeBSD/Solaris) Operating Systems. vmstat

The post Linux Performance Monitoring with Vmstat and Iostat Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The post 13 Linux Network Configuration and Troubleshooting Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Computers are connected in a network to exchange information or resources with each other. Two or more computers are connected through network media called a computer network. There is a number of network devices

The post 13 Linux Network Configuration and Troubleshooting Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

How To Check OS Version In Linux?  Fossbytes

Those attending Red Hat Summit this past April heard Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier announce our partnership with Boston University, which included expanding the Red Hat Collaboratory to drive innovative research and education in open source technology.

While CUPS 2.4 was recently released as the first big update in years and since OpenPrinting took over upstream development, CUPS founder Michael Sweet continues concurrently developing PAPPL as a modern, open-source printer appication framework. Wednesday marked the release of PAPPL 1.1...

How to Add or Remove Linux from the Windows File Explorer Navigation Pane  BollyInside

Glibc 2.35 is introducing the new tunable glibc.malloc.hugetlb that can help with improving system performance for some workloads making use of this tunable, depending upon your kernel's hugepages configuration...

Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers  The Verge

Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers  The Verge

Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive  Phoronix

Valve yesterday introduced experimental Vulkan support for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as an alternative to the long-standing OpenGL path for running CS:GO on Linux. Curious about the performance implications of CS:GO with Vulkan, here are some benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux with a variety of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

Intel's CM Compiler for their "C for Metal" programming language has been updated for various new GPU targets, including not only Xe HPC "Ponte Vecchio" but also a Ponte Vecchio XT variant...

How to manage a remote host via Cockpit  TechRepublic