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10 Best Udemy Google Cloud Platform Courses in 2021

Tecmint - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 12:52
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Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services that share its running environment with the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products e.g YouTube, Gmail, and Google Search. It

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Red Hat statement about Richard Stallman’s return to the Free Software Foundation board

Red Hat News - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 12:00

Red Hat is a long-time donor and contributor to projects stewarded by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), with hundreds of contributors and millions of lines of code contributed. Considering the circumstances of Richard Stallman’s original resignation in 2019, Red Hat was appalled to learn that he had rejoined the FSF board of directors. As a result, we are immediately suspending all Red Hat funding of the FSF and any FSF-hosted events.

Avoiding common mistakes in modernizing legacy applications

Red Hat News - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 12:00
The Problem

Recently, I worked with a customer in the courier industry whose core logistics scheduling application suffered from reliability, performance, and scalability issues. While I addressed the immediate problems, it was clear that the 20 years of patchwork fixes, enhancements, and technical debt accumulated were the root cause.

Mesa 21.0.1 Released, 20.3.5 Issued To Close Out The Older Series

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 08:18
For those that tend to wait until at least the first point release before moving to a new Mesa feature release, Mesa 21.0.1 is out today while Mesa 20.3.5 was also released as the last of that Q4'2020 driver series...

NVIDIA's Open-Source DALI Reaches Version 1.0

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 06:30
Announced nearly three years ago by NVIDIA as one of their open-source projects was the DALI library for GPU-accelerated data augmentation and image loading. The DALI library today reached the v1.0.0 milestone...

Intel's VA-API Library LibVA 2.11 Released With Support For Protected Content

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 03:55
Intel's VA-API library (libVA) is out with a new end-of-quarter release for this open-source Linux video acceleration interface...

AMD Sends Out New Linux Code For SEV-SNP With EPYC 7003 Series

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 01:50
In addition to AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors offering fantastic performance, another important highlight for these new Zen 3 server processors is SEV-SNP for upping the Secure Encrypted Virtualization capabilities. AMD has been offering SEV "Secure Nested Paging" patches via a GitHub repository while now they are working towards mainlining this feature for the Linux kernel...

AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 01:00
While the RadeonSI Gallium3D open-source OpenGL driver for Linux systems is very well received and generally outperforming the proprietary AMD OpenGL driver on Linux/Windows and performing very strong against NVIDIA's proprietary OpenGL driver too, it's not game over for this older graphics API and AMD is still working to lower the CPU overhead even further for this open-source code...

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