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Customer success stories: DevOps at scale

Red Hat News - Tue, 07/06/2021 - 12:00

Digital transformation doesn’t stop at just one product or solution. As your organization takes steps towards modernizing IT infrastructure, it’s worth thinking about the processes and people components as well. This month, see how Red Hat solutions helped three companies across the globe learn new ways of working and find success. 

Following NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID"

Phoronix - Tue, 07/06/2021 - 12:00
There is now covid going around the BSDs... DragonFlyBSD has ported it from NetBSD...

X.Org Server 21.1 Development Snapshot Released

Phoronix - Tue, 07/06/2021 - 06:33
There hasn't been a major X.Org Server release since v1.20 three years ago and not much interest in seeing a new release with more Linux distributions switching to Wayland-based desktops and XWayland recently seeing its own standalone releases. But now there is an X.Org Server 21.1 development release as the first step towards a possible new stable release in the future...

Ubuntu 21.10 Compressing Debian Packages With Zstd

Phoronix - Tue, 07/06/2021 - 05:27
It's coming three years later than originally planned but with Ubuntu 21.10 this autumn the Debian packages will now be compressed via Zstd for offering speedier decompression speeds...

ASUS Laptop dGPU Toggling, eGPU Handling, Panel Overdrive Patches For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/06/2021 - 02:05
A set of Linux kernel patches to the asus-wmi driver are pending that improve the support for newer ASUS gaming laptops...

Vulkan 1.2.184 Includes NVIDIA Extension For RDMA Usage

Phoronix - Mon, 07/05/2021 - 21:31
Last year I wrote about NVIDIA working on Vulkan support for RDMA memory. That work around RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) memory usage in the Vulkan context is now available with today's Vulkan 1.2.184 specification update...

New Linux 5.14 Tracer To Help With Measuring Operating System Noise

Phoronix - Mon, 07/05/2021 - 19:33
The tracing subsystem within the Linux kernel is seeing some exciting improvements with Linux 5.14 to help with low-latency analysis and also measuring operating system noise...

Linux 5.14's Perf Tooling Makes Preparations For Intel Alder Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 07/05/2021 - 18:25
The Linux kernel's tooling around the perf subsystem is the latest area seeing a lot of work for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake processors with a mix of high performance and low power processor cores...

Linux 5.14 Works Around Compatibility With Some Digital Camera exFAT File-Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 07/05/2021 - 18:16
Merged back in Linux 5.4 in late 2019 was the exFAT file-system driver that has proven to be quite mature at this stage with the work led by Samsung under the blessing of Microsoft. There hasn't been much in the way of exFAT file-system driver changes in recent kernel releases given its maturity. Even with Linux 5.14 there are just two exFAT patches but end up being notable at least for some users due to fixing file-system compatibility with some digital cameras...

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