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CodeWeavers Planning For A Busy 2022 With VKD3D D3D12 For CrossOver

Phoronix - Thu, 12/23/2021 - 02:17
While the VKD3D-Proton fork has been very active and running an increasing number of Direct3D 12 Windows games well as part of Valve's Steam Play, CodeWeavers and the upstream Wine community does continue working on VKD3D. CodeWeavers is planning to make big improvements to VKD3D in 2022 to offer better DirectX 12 support with their commercial CrossOver software for Linux and macOS...

Intel oneAPI Toolkits 2022 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 22:21
Intel has now made their oneAPI Toolkits 2022 release publicly available after announcing it earlier this quarter...

AMD AOCC 3.2 Helps Squeeze A Bit More Out Of Zen 3

Phoronix - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 19:00
Released earlier this month was AMD's AOCC 3.2 compiler based on LLVM/Clang/Flang that provides optimized support for AMD Zen processors. I've been running some benchmarks of AOCC 3.2 compared to prior AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler releases and this newest release has been helpful in squeezing a bit more out of Zen 3.

Linux 5.17 Will Have An Important Intel P-State Update For Alder Lake Mobile CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 18:12
Linux 5.17 will have a seemingly important fix for upcoming Intel Alder Lake mobile processors. Without this change/fix, you might not see the advertised one-core turbo frequencies being met for your processor depending upon the system and whether tuning your EPP...

5 open source security resources from 2021

opensource.com - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 16:01

One of the most prevalent discussions on Opensource.com in 2021 was about the security and privacy of your own data. A noticeable theme was that your data is yours and that passwords were key to security. This year's security authors provided helpful tips and open source tools for keeping your data and hardware secure.

Here is my top-five countdown of this year's security journey.


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Implement governance on your Kubernetes cluster

opensource.com - Wed, 12/22/2021 - 16:00

When you work with Kubernetes, it slowly becomes your production temple. You invest time and resources into developing and nurturing it, and you naturally begin looking for ways to control the Kubernetes end user in your organization. What can it do? What resources can it create? Can it label two deployments in a specific way? Which best practices should we follow?

Meet OPA Gatekeeper. This article will show you how to use it to create and enforce policies and governance for your Kubernetes clusters so the resources you apply comply with that policy.


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