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Breaking the stigma of mental health in the workplace

Red Hat News - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:00

Early in my career, I felt like I had to be "on" all the time. Even if my boss wasn’t counting my hours, I felt compelled to constantly be engaged with work. If I had some downtime between my tasks, I triple-checked my email. If I had time to read something, I felt like I should read something directly work related. I wouldn’t let myself take a break. It wasn’t just my desire to prove myself that was pushing me, it was anxiety, which I’ve been living with my entire adult life. 

AnsibleFest highlights Ansible momentum as IT automation becomes an enterprise imperative

Red Hat News - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:00

This month marks the five year anniversary since Red Hat acquired Ansible, and since then, much has changed in the IT automation world. IT organizations have always faced continual pressure to support rapid innovation at-scale, but 2020 has been an especially challenging year.

Red Hat Accelerators: Embracing the tech community to thrive in a new normal

Red Hat News - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:00

This year has produced many dynamic global challenges that changed the way people work and, especially, interact. Now, we’ve found ourselves more cut off from our friends, family and co-workers than ever before as we reside in an increasingly virtual world.

GIMP 2.10.22 Released With AVIF Image Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 03:32
While GIMP 3.0 development drags on, the GIMP 2.10.x stable series continues seeing new and interesting point releases. Out today is GIMP 2.10.22 that now supports the AV1-based AVIF image format for import and export...

AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Support Posted For The "Dimgrey Cavefish"

Phoronix - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 00:44
At the end of September there were Mesa patches posted for the "Dimgrey Cavefish" at the same time as also posting VanGogh APU support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. The AMDGPU Linux kernel driver support has now been posted for the Dimgrey Cavefish...

DXVK 1.7.2 Released With Many Fixes For Direct3D Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 00:21
DXVK 1.7.2 was just released as this popular library for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop the Vulkan API primarily for accelerating Windows games on Linux via the likes of Steam Play (Proton) and Wine...

Blender 2.90 Performance With GeForce RTX 3080, 18-Way NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Comparison

Phoronix - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 23:52
Complementing yesterday's large GPU compute comparison with the GeForce RTX 3080 across many different workloads, today's article is looking at the Blender 2.90 render performance for this consumer Ampere $699+ graphics card.

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2021.1 With Tigerlake Support, Expanded Capabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 22:14
Ready to move past the tumultuous year that is 2020, Intel's open-source developers responsible for the OpenVINO toolkit today issued version 2021.1 with some big ticket additions...

NVIDIA 455.28 Released As Stable Linux Driver For RTX 3080/3090

Phoronix - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 21:22
Last month marked the release of the 455.23.04 beta driver for NVIDIA Linux users in providing support for the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards. The NVIDIA 455.28 Linux driver is out today as their first official 455 series release and also stable RTX 3080/3090 Ampere support...

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