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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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Join upstream maintainers in this new free online event

opensource.com - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 15:00

Imagine the chaos that would occur if all open source software vanished with the snap of a finger. Picture the devices that would turn to bricks in our hands, the infrastructure that would fail, and the machinery that would fall silent.

The truth is we probably don't stop to think about all the open source libraries, frameworks, and components we depend on—until something goes wrong.


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LFCA: Learn the Basic Concepts of DevOps – Part 21

Tecmint - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 14:24
The post LFCA: Learn the Basic Concepts of DevOps – Part 21 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

DevOps has been a trending topic for quite a while now and has managed to draw the attention of technology professionals and enterprises alike. As a beginner, it can be challenging wrapping your head

The post LFCA: Learn the Basic Concepts of DevOps – Part 21 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel Launches Core i5-1155G7 + Core i7-1195G7 Tiger Lake Processors

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 10:30
Intel is kicking off Computex Taipei 2021 week by announcing new 11th Gen Intel Core processors as well as Intel 5G Solution 5000 as their first 5G product intended for next-gen PCs...

Linux 5.13-rc4 Releases As A "Fairly Sizable" Test Release

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 06:33
Linux 5.13-rc4 is out this US Memorial Day weekend and it has ticked up to being a rather large weekly test release...

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