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Vulkan 1.3.207 Brings Another New Extension From Valve

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 22:30
Vulkan 1.3.207 is out as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics / compute API...

AMD Announces The Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series For What Should Be Great On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 22:00
It's been well over two years since AMD introduced the Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series and subsequently introduced the Threadripper PRO 3000WX series as workstation-focused parts. Today AMD is introducing the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series as the first Zen 3 based Threadripper processors.

BoringTun v0.4 Released For CloudFlare's Rust-Based WireGuard

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 20:30
Back in 2019 the folks at CloudFlare announced BoringTun as a Rust-written WireGuard user-space implementation. Yesterday marked the first tagged release of BoringTun in the form of version 0.4...

Vulkan Ready To Take On Safety-Critical Market With Vulkan SC 1.0

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 19:08
Last week The Khronos Group introduced Vulkan SC 1.0 in providing safety-critical Vulkan support for allowing this modern graphics API to used in new areas requiring maximum safety requirements...

Mold 1.1.1 Released With Optimized Memory Usage, New Options

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 18:50
A new version of the high performance, open-source Mold linker is now available with more feature additions and performance optimizations...

Renesas H8/300 CPU Support Looks To Be Dropped Again From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 18:30
The Linux kernel support is looking to drop support for Renesas (Hitachi) H8/300 CPUs once again...

EGroupware administration tips to meet your collaboration needs

opensource.com - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 16:01

In my previous article, I explained how to install and set up EGroupware on your own server. It also introduced the modules and external applications of the open source groupware solution. This article shows you how to take care of an existing installation and manage backups.


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How to use Kubernetes and OpenStack together

opensource.com - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 16:00

In OpenStack's 2021 User Survey, the majority of respondents said they use Kubernetes as the container orchestration or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) tool to manage their OpenStack applications. Simply put, OpenStack and Kubernetes work together to benefit sysadmins, developers, and users alike.

It's one thing to say that users rely on these two technologies, but I wanted to know how. I've found several typical use cases.


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