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Wine 6.12 Released With More PE Conversion, New Themes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 04:05
In celebrating the US holiday weekend, Wine 6.12 has arrived for popping in enjoying the latest Windows games and applications on Linux...

Linux 5.14 Bringing SD Cache Ctrl Support, Other SD Card Support Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 01:00
The MMC/MEMSTICK updates for Linux 5.14 bring more work on bettering the kernel's Secure Digital card support...

Linux Leading Over Early Windows 11 Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 22:23
With Microsoft making public this week their early Windows Insider Preview builds of Windows 11, curiosity got the best of me to give it a whirl in looking at the performance of the early Windows 11 preview build compared to Ubuntu Linux.

Intel Overhauls & Replaces Its RDMA Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 18:16
Intel has wrapped up a 3+ year effort to overhaul and replace its existing RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) driver. With Linux 5.14 is their shiny new "IRDMA" driver while their former driver is being immediately removed...

Systemd 249 Has Another Chance For Testing Before Release

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 17:52
Another release candidate of systemd 249 is available for testing while the actual release appears imminent...

Steam On Linux Still Tap Dancing Around 0.9% Marketshare

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 17:39
Even with Steam Play continuing to get into quite good shape for running recent Windows game releases on Linux with ease thanks to the work Valve has been investing into Proton, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, and lower-level Linux graphics infrastructure, for now at least the overall marketshare is holding steady at around 0.8~0.9% for the past number of months...

Linux 5.14 ARM64 Preps For When Not All The CPU Cores Support 32-bit Execution

Phoronix - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 17:22
The 64-bit ARM architecture changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 5.14...

Run Prometheus at home in a container

opensource.com - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 15:02

Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting system that provides insight into the state and history of a computer, application, or cluster by storing defined metrics in a time-series database. It provides a powerful query language, PromQL, to help you explore and understand the data it stores. Prometheus also includes an Alertmanager that makes it easy to trigger notifications when the metrics you collect cross certain thresholds.


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Bind a cloud event to Knative

opensource.com - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 15:00

Events have become an essential piece of modern reactive systems. Indeed, events can be used to communicate from one service to another, trigger out-of-band processing, or send a payload to a service like Kafka. The problem is that event publishers may express event messages in any number of different ways, regardless of content. For example, some messages are payloads in JSON format to serialize and deserialize messages by application.


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How to Install Rocky Linux 8.4 Step by Step

Tecmint - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 13:27
The post How to Install Rocky Linux 8.4 Step by Step first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

CentOS 8 is reaching EOL (End Of Life) by the end of this year, 2021, and a few Linux distributions have been floated as formidable CentOS alternatives. Among them is Rocky Linux, which is

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Modernizing retail banking with blockchain, Red Hat and HCL

Red Hat News - Fri, 07/02/2021 - 12:00

HCL’s blockchain application development platform, called CoTrust, provides scaffolding services to create business use cases on top of standard blockchain platforms. An enterprise application can be integrated with CoTrust to support participation in a blockchain. 

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