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Windows vs. Linux, 5.13 Kernel, FreeBSD 13, Other May Excitement

Phoronix - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 19:17
Over the past month on Phoronix there was a lot of excitement by readers around the in-development Linux 5.13 kernel, Mesa advancements, notable new software releases like dav1d and Zstd 1.5, new hardware benchmarking around Xeon Scalable Ice Lake and AMD's latest wares, and more...

Raspberry Pi Announces RP2040 Chips For $1

Phoronix - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 18:10
Earlier this year the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico with RP2040 microcontroller for doing embedded development. Now that RP2040 chip is being sold for just $1 USD via their resellers for those wanting to build their own electronics with this Raspberry Pi silicon...

AMD Introduces FidelityFX Super Resolution, NVIDIA Announces DLSS For Steam Play

Phoronix - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 17:30
At AMD's Computex Taipei 2021 keynote they announced FidelityFX Super Resolution as coming later this month as their own open-source alternative to NVIDIA's Deep Learning Super Sampling for image upscaling while gaming. While we are waiting to see how the Linux support for FidelityFX Super Resolution will play out, NVIDIA is already trying to one up them by announcing DLSS for Steam Play...

Start monitoring your Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus and Grafana

opensource.com - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 15:02

In my introductory article about chaos engineering, one of the main things I covered was the importance of getting the steady state of your working Kubernetes cluster. Before you can start causing chaos, you need to know what the cluster looks like in a steady state.


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Get started with FreeDOS

opensource.com - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 15:00

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, I was primarily a DOS user. I loved the command line environment offered in DOS, which became more powerful with each successive release. I even learned how to write my own DOS programs in the C programming language so I could extend the DOS command line, and write more powerful replacements for the standard DOS commands. I'd experimented with Microsoft's Windows—but if you remember Windows 3 from that time, you know it was slow and tended to crash. But I preferred the command line anyway, so I stuck to DOS.


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Get started with Java serverless functions

opensource.com - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 15:00

The serverless Java journey started out with functions—small snippets of code running on demand. This phase didn't last long. Although functions based on virtual machine architecture in the 1.0 phase made this paradigm very popular, as the graphic below shows, there were limits around execution time, protocols, and poor local-development experience.


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How to Install AlmaLinux 8.4 Step by Step

Tecmint - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 14:26
The post How to Install AlmaLinux 8.4 Step by Step first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As CentOS 8 draws steadily to End of Life on December 31st, 2021, efforts have been made to come up with centos alternative distributions which will fill in the big shoes left by CentOS

The post How to Install AlmaLinux 8.4 Step by Step first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Building a more secure, composable AI-powered infrastructure with Red Hat and NVIDIA

Red Hat News - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 12:00

Modern data centers and IT environments need enhanced threat detection and policy management across bare metal and Kubernetes deployments. This is why Red Hat announced our plans to support NVIDIA BlueField DPUs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift.

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