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Why we built an open source testing framework

opensource.com - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 16:00

If you've ever wanted to join an open source community and contribute or start an open source project of your own, then read on to find out about our fun and awesome open source project we created from scratch at Red Hat. I'm a Software Quality Engineering Manager in the OpenStack Networking group, and together with a team of engineers both from my team and from R&D, we collaborated to create the Tobiko open source testing framework.

Sometimes, you just have to start a new open source project.


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How Red Hat’s helping customers with high performance computing, container technology and more

Red Hat News - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 13:00

In this month’s customer success stories, we share how customers in Belgium, Norway and Slovenia have used Red Hat technologies to work better and faster as we enter the new year. Get the details:

Linux 5.16 Released With Many Intel & AMD Additions, Memory Folios, AMX, FUTEX2

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 07:23
As expected the Linux 5.16 kernel has been promoted to stable...

Linux 5.16 Graphics Performance In Great Shape For AMD Ryzen APUs

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 01:30
Back on Christmas Eve I noted how the Linux 5.16 performance was looking real good for AMD APUs as a performance improvement not widely noted to that point with significant uplift over Linux 5.15 stable. The good news is Linux 5.16 is set to debut as stable today and the benchmark results with AMD APU graphics is looking very promising after carrying out tests on additional available systems.

Sway 1.7 Nears Release With Less Abrasive NVIDIA Option, Zero-Copy Direct Scanout

Phoronix - Sun, 01/09/2022 - 19:14
Sway 1.7 is up to its second release candidate for this popular i3-inspired Wayland lightweight compositor...

Linux 5.17 To Introduce Cirrus CS35L41 HD Audio Codec Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 01/09/2022 - 19:02
Among many other sound driver changes destined for the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle, Cirrus Logic has contributed CS35L41 HD audio codec support in the form of a new sound driver, cs35l41_hda...

MGLRU Is A Very Enticing Enhancement For Linux In 2022

Phoronix - Sun, 01/09/2022 - 18:42
Going back a number of months Google engineers have been working to address the issue of the Linux kernel's page reclaim code being too expensive for which they devised the multi-generational LRU framework "MGLRU" and it continues being worked on with mainline ambitions...

Using Distrobox To Augment The Package Selection On Clear Linux, Other Distributions

Phoronix - Sun, 01/09/2022 - 18:22
While our testing has consistently shown how Clear Linux can deliver leading performance on Intel/AMD x86_64 platforms, one of the user criticisms to that distribution has been around the limited selection of packaged software especially on the desktop side. But the rather interesting Distrobox can help address that by leveraging Podman or Docker to run other Linux distribution user-space software packages atop...

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