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Alder Lake P Support Added To Intel's IGC Graphics Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 17:59
Intel's Graphics Compiler "IGC" that is used by their Windows driver as well as the Intel Compute Runtime for OpenCL / Level Zero support (and potentially the Mesa drivers in the future) has now landed Alder Lake P enablement...

How I use Terraform and Helm to deploy the Kubernetes Dashboard

opensource.com - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 15:01

When I'm working on projects that require provisioning cloud infrastructure, my workflow has two disparate components: one is infrastructure orchestration, which includes Terraform to bring up the infrastructure (for instance, new EKS clusters), and the second is the provisioning component, which includes Ansible or Bash scripts to instantiate and initialize that infrastructure to accept new deployments (for instance, installing Cluster Autoscaler, kube-state-metrics, and so on.)


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How to get the most out of GitOps right now

opensource.com - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 15:00

You may have encountered this brief introduction to GitOps shared by prevalent cloud software engineer, Kelsey Hightower:

GitOps: versioned CI/CD on top of declarative infrastructure. Stop scripting and start shipping. https://t.co/SgUlHgNrnY


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X.Org Server 21.1 Will Aim To Release In The Coming Weeks

Phoronix - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 14:30
It looks like X.Org Server 21.1 (long in development the past few years as X.Org Server 1.21) will see a stable release in the coming weeks...

18 Tar Command Examples in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 13:51
The post 18 Tar Command Examples in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is used by a large number of Linux/Unix system administrators to deal with tape drives backup. The tar command is used to rip a collection of

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Intel Fully Embracing LLVM For Their C/C++ Compilers

Phoronix - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 06:31
Intel's next-generation C/C++ compilers are fully leveraging the LLVM compiler stack in place of their former proprietary compiler code-base. Intel has "complete[d] adoption" of LLVM moving forward for their C/C++ compiler needs...

Linux "sev_secret" Patches For Tapping Confidential Computing Secret Areas In AMD SEV

Phoronix - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 04:00
The latest AMD SEV work happening to the Linux kernel for benefiting EPYC servers with virtualization is the new "sev_secret" module for allowing guests to access confidential computing secret areas...

Oracle Sends Out Newest Patches For Trenchboot / Secure Launch For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 08/10/2021 - 01:37
For more than one year now Oracle engineers have been working on Trenchboot support for securely booting the Linux kernel. Sent out today is the third revision of this work for establishing a dynamic root of trust for measurement...

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