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NVIDIA 460.56 Linux Driver Released With GeForce RTX 3060 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 21:14
NVIDIA has updated their 460 series Linux driver to provide launch-day support for the GeForce RTX 3060...

Ubuntu Aims For Higher Quality LTS Point Releases

Phoronix - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 20:12
New restrictions will be in place beginning with Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS this summer to try to enforce better quality releases with less regressions by enforcing better quality control...

Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Ported To Windows

Phoronix - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 19:19
Lavapipe as Mesa's CPU-based Vulkan driver implementation akin to LLVMpipe for OpenGL can now run on Microsoft Windows...

DFI Partners With Ubuntu For IoT Hardware, OTA Updates

Phoronix - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 18:56
Most of you probably haven't heard of DFI much in nearly two decades since the days of their colorful "LanParty" motherboards that were well known at the time, but these days they are focused on the industrial computer industry and have now teamed up with Canonical to partake in the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program...

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.4 Brings More Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 18:30
AMD has released AMDVLK 2021.Q1.4 as their newest snapshot of this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

How to use the Linux anacron command

opensource.com - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 16:02

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Automation is one of the best reasons to use Linux.

One of my favorite things about Linux is its willingness to do work for me. Instead of performing repetitive tasks that eat up my time, or are prone to error, or that I'm likely to forget, I schedule Linux to do them for me.


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AIOps vs. MLOps: What's the difference?

opensource.com - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 16:01

In late 2019, O'Reilly hosted a survey on artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in the enterprise. The survey broke respondents into two stages of adoption: Mature and Evaluation.

When asked what's holding back their AI adoption, those in the latter category most often cited company culture. Trouble identifying good use cases for AI wasn't far behind.


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4 new open source licenses

opensource.com - Thu, 02/25/2021 - 16:00

As the steward of the Open Source Defintion, the Open Source Initiative has been designating licenses as "open source" for over 20 years. These licenses are the foundation of the open source software ecosystem, ensuring that everyone can use, improve, and share software. When a license is approved, it is because the OSI believes that the license fosters collaboration and sharing for the benefit of everyone who participates in the ecosystem.


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