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Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:24
The wlroots modular Wayland compositing library that was started by the Sway compositor now has an initial Vulkan renderer merged...

Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Continues In The Right Direction For AArch64

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 21:00
As a good sign ahead of the important Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release in the spring, Ubuntu 21.10 further ups the 64-bit ARM (AArch64) performance. Here is a look at some of the gains in going from Ubuntu 21.04 to the recently released Ubuntu 21.10.

Blender 3.x Roadmap Has Big Plans For Vulkan, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 19:22
With Blender 3.0 releasing soon, the Blender project has published a Blender 3.x road-map outlining some of their plans for future releases...

Embedded DisplayPort 1.5 Specification Published

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 16:52
It's been six years already since VESA published the Embedded DisplayPort 1.4b specification while finally it's been succeeded by eDP 1.5...

5 lessons I learned about chaos engineering for Kubernetes

opensource.com - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 15:01

Kubernetes is a complex framework for a complex job. Managing several containers can be complicated, and managing hundreds and thousands of them is essentially just not humanly possible. Kubernetes makes highly available and highly scaled cloud applications a reality, and it usually does its job remarkably well. However, people don't tend to notice the days and months of success. Months and years of smooth operation aren't the things that result in phone calls at 2 AM. In IT, it's the failures that count. And unfortunately, failures don't run on a schedule.


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Open source recognized as a key economic pillar in EU study

opensource.com - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 15:00

A September 2021 study on the economic impact of open source software and hardware concluded that open source technologies injected EUR 65-95 billion into the European economy. This study is timely given the current rollout of the European Union's EUR 750 billion recovery investment, which has allotted 20% for digital transformation.


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How to Configure Zabbix to Send Email Alerts to Gmail Account – Part 2

Tecmint - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 14:40
The post How to Configure Zabbix to Send Email Alerts to Gmail Account – Part 2 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you are using Zabbix to monitor your infrastructure you might want to receive email alerts from your local domain somewhere on a public internet domain, even if you don’t own a valid registered

The post How to Configure Zabbix to Send Email Alerts to Gmail Account – Part 2 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Launches As Newer, Faster $10 Single Board Computer

Phoronix - Thu, 10/28/2021 - 14:00
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today is launching the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as their newest single board computer succeeding the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W...

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