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Linux 5.16 To Feature More Extensible VirtIO GPU Driver With "Context Types" Addition

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 20:29
Google's work on the VirtIO DRM kernel driver around the notion of "context types" and being able to initialize different types of contexts is set to be merged for Linux 5.16 in opening up more use-cases for this driver that is an important part of the open-source virtualization graphics stack for graphics...

Qt 6.2 LTS Released With Qt6 Now Aiming To Be Ready For Widespread Adoption

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 18:38
Qt 6.2 LTS is out today as the first long-term support release in the Qt6 series and also with all of the major modules now ported over from Qt5 in aiming to make this a suitable point to transition from Qt 5.15 LTS...

AMDVLK 2021.Q3.7 Driver Released With New Extensions, More Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 18:09
AMD has pushed out one more code drop of their AMDVLK official open-source Vulkan driver before ending out the quarter...

Ampere Altra Max 128-Core CPU Is Priced Lower Than Flagship Xeon, EPYC CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 17:55
From our Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux performance preview earlier this week, one of the questions a number of readers were wondering about and a question I also still had open was on the Altra Max pricing... I've now received the current price list and actually comes in much lower than expected for a 128-core CPU in 2021...

Make YAML as easy as it looks

opensource.com - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 15:01

If you've ever tried writing YAML, you may have been initially pleased with how apparently easy it looks. At first glance, the YAML that's often used for configuration files, Ansible playbooks, and flat-file databases looks more or less as intuitive as a shopping list. However, there's a lot of nuance in YAML's structure, and it conceals a dangerous secret: YAML is actually a highly precise, structured, and surprisingly strict language. The good news is that you only need to understand two things to know how YAML works.


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How I use Ansible and anacron for automation

opensource.com - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 15:00

Automation is the great IT and DevOps ideal, but in my experience, anything that's not immediately convenient may as well not exist at all. There have been many times when I've come up with a pretty good solution for some task, and I'll even script it, but I stop short of making it literally automated because the infrastructure for easy automation doesn't exist on the machine I'm working on.


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Using Ansible with REST APIs

opensource.com - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 15:00

Ansible is a top open source project which, on the surface, looks to provide a simple way to standardize your existing automation and allow it to run in parallel across multiple hosts, and it does this very successfully. Yet, in reality, Ansible has the capabilities to extend what your existing automation does to incorporate other systems and really simplify tasks across all aspects of your daily routine.


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Mesa 21.2.3 Released As A Small Update To This Graphics Driver Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 07:27
Succeeding Mesa 21.2.2 from earlier this month that was a much delayed and in turn very large release, Mesa 21.2.3 is out today and it's on the quieter side...

"pkill_on_warn" Proposed For Killing Linux Processes That Cause A Kernel Warning

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 03:32
A new kernel option was proposed today called "pkill_on_warn" that would kill all threads in a process if that process provoked a kernel warning...

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