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While NVIDIA has supported its own vendor-specific Vulkan ray-tracing extension on Windows and Linux since the GeForce RTX GPUs originally debuted, they are moving quick to support the Khronos ray-tracing extensions for Vulkan given the industry adoption and games coming to market likely opting for using the KHR version...

Linux-driven module and starter kit tap Renesas RZ/G2  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-driven module and starter kit tap Renesas RZ/G2  LinuxGizmos.com

Native Windows 10 on M1 Macs? That's up to Microsoft, says Apple exec  ZDNet

Linus Torvalds would love to own a new M1 MacBook Air, but it doesn't run Linux Natively  Patently Apple

With Wine on an annual stable release cadence for shipping new stable feature releases generally at the beginning of each calendar year after a year's worth of bi-weekly development snapshots, Wine 6.0 is due for release around January...

Linux Operating System Market Size Estimation, Industry Share, Future Demand, Dynamics, Drivers, Research Methodology By 2026  The Haitian-Caribbean News Network

Vulkan 1.2.162 Released With Ray-Tracing Support Promoted  Phoronix

Earlier this year Vulkan ray-tracing arrived in provisional form while with today's Vulkan 1.2.162 specification update this functionality has been promoted to stable and ready for broad industry support...

Linux 5.10 release might get messy around Christmas  TechRadar

Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK  Phoronix

Red Hat for several years now has been working on PipeWire to overhaul audio/video stream management on Linux while being able to fill the duties currently managed by the likes of PulseAudio and JACK and being engineered with Wayland and Flatpak security in mind among other modern Linux technologies. With Fedora 34 next spring they may try to ship PipeWire by default in place of JACK, PulseAudio, and even legacy ALSA...

Code used in production is different from development code. In production, you need to build packages that run fast, manage dependencies, automate tasks, load external modules, and more. JavaScript tools that make it possible to turn development code into production code are called build tools.

The reason frontend code is "built" can be explained by looking into the various build steps and their importance.

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Kubernetes is the default orchestration engine for containers. Its options for controlling and managing pods and containers include:

1. Deployments
2. StatefulSets
3. ReplicaSets

Each of these features has its own purpose, with the common function to ensure that pods run continuously. In failure scenarios, these controllers either restart or reschedule pods to ensure the services in the pods continue running.

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As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Best Linux distros for Windows users in 2020  Techradar

Best Linux distros for Windows users in 2020  TechRadar

Linus Torvalds wants an M1 Mac… but running Linux, obviously  Developer Tech

How to manage user passwords on Linux  TechRepublic

Tiger Lake + Renoir On Ubuntu Linux For Battery vs. AC Performance  Phoronix