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Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 22:26
This week on 5 June marks 17 years since starting Phoronix.com for Linux hardware reviews and also 13 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for advancing open-source/Linux benchmarking...

Genode OS 21.05 Released With Webcam Support, Encrypted File Vault

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 21:22
Genode OS as the from-scratch open-source operating system framework built atop a micro-kernel abstraction layer and various original user-space components is out with its version 21.05 update...

Valve's GameNetworkingSockets 1.3 Released With Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 20:05
One of Valve's many open-source projects is GameNetworkingSockets as a basic transport layer for games to handle UDP-based messaging, P2P networking, encryption, IPv6, and other network handling functionality of particular use to games / game engines...

Linux 5.14 To Have Additional Bring-Up For Intel Alder Lake M

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:44
In recent months there has been a lot of Linux kernel patches for bringing up Alder Lake S and Alder Lake P while more recently the enablement patches for Alder Lake M low-power mobile has begun...

X.Org Server Git Lands Latest Patches To Help NVIDIA XWayland

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:16
Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan has landed the latest XWayland improvements into X.Org Server Git for primarily benefiting the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack...

Linux Adding New Thermal Code To Deal With Hot Tegra Devices

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:02
Simple CPU throttling isn't sufficient for cooling some NVIDIA Tegra devices running the upstream Linux kernel so thermal cooling integration into the device frequency "devfreq" scaling code is in the work for such high performance NVIDIA SoCs...

Get started with Kubernetes using chaos engineering

opensource.com - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 15:01

Kubernetes is turning 11, so I'll be celebrating its birthday by giving you some open source tools that will help you cause chaos. Chaos engineering is part science, part planning, and part experiments. It's the discipline of experimenting on a system to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.

Before I start passing out the gifts, in this introductory article, I will explain the basics of how chaos engineering works.


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