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7 key components of observability in Python

opensource.com - Mon, 11/22/2021 - 16:00

The applications you write execute a lot of code, in a way that's essentially invisible. So how can you know:


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Unifying teams and tools on the Red Hat OpenShift Data Science platform

Red Hat News - Mon, 11/22/2021 - 13:00

Red Hat OpenShift Data Science removes barriers between data engineers, data scientists, and application developers so organizations can realize the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Using this cloud service, organizations can experiment with open source and integrated technology partner software across the entire ML life cycle.

EROFS-Utils 1.4 Adds Experimental FSCK, MicroLZMA Compression

Phoronix - Mon, 11/22/2021 - 13:00
EROFS-Utils as the collection of open-source user-space utilities for the read-only EROFS file-system is out with a big update...

Linux 5.16-rc2 Released - "Felt Pretty Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 11/22/2021 - 06:13
Linus Torvalds just issued the second release candidate of Linux 5.16 following the closure of the merge window last Sunday...

New Linux /dev/random RNG Revved For The 43rd Time

Phoronix - Mon, 11/22/2021 - 01:27
Going on for more than a half-decade now has been the effort around Linux Random Number Generator as a new /dev/random implementation for Linux. After more than five years, LRNG continues to work towards being mainlined and today marks the 43rd revision to these patches...

Intel Posts Updated "Software Defined Silicon" Driver To Activate Licensed Hardware Features

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 21:07
Back in September we were first to report on Intel developing "Software Defined Silicon" support for being able to activate extra licensed hardware features not otherwise exposed. Intel hasn't talked about the controversial feature in terms of product plans but this weekend they posted a new revision of this Intel "SDSi" Linux driver...

New x86/x86_64 KVM Patches Would Help Reduce Excess TLB Flushing

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 19:14
A set of more than two dozen patches by Google engineer Sean Christopherson overhauls KVM's x86/x86_64 TDP MMU zapping and flushing code...

LLVM Is Still Working On Relicensing, Needs Help Locating Some Past Contributors

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 18:30
For years LLVM has been working on a massive relicensing of its code-base but that effort is still ongoing as they are still trying to track down some past contributors to collect their sign-offs on the change...

Gluster 10 Scalable Network File-System Delivers Greater Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 18:10
Gluster 10 was released this past week as the open-source scalable/distributed network file-system led by Red Hat...

4 open source ways to create holiday greetings

opensource.com - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 16:00

The holiday season is upon us once again, and this year I decided to celebrate in an open source way. Like a particular famous holiday busybody, I have a long list (and I do intend to check it twice) of holiday tasks: create a greeting card (with addressed envelopers) to send to family and friends, make a photo montage or video to a suitably festive song, and decorate my virtual office. There are plenty of open source applications and resources making my job easier. Here's what I use.


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More RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 22.0

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 01:09
Well known AMD OpenGL open-source driver developer Marek Olšák managed to land yet more performance optimizations this week into Mesa 22.0...

Wine 7.0 Code Freeze To Begin In Early December

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 20:04
As expected when writing about Wine 6.22 yesterday that the annual stable release dance was likely upon us, plans were laid out today for that Wine 7.0 release...

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