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AMD Launches Arcturus As The Instinct MI100, Radeon ROCm 4.0

Phoronix - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 22:00
AMD is marking the SC20 virtual conference this week by launching the AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator, which is based on their CDNA architecture. Also notable and coinciding with the MI100 launch is the Radeon Open eCosystem 4.0 (ROCm 4.0) Linux release.

We Have Been Testing The Radeon RX 6800 Series On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 22:00
But can't tell you yet how it performs.....

GNOME Work Moving Ahead On Deep Color Support, Triple Buffering

Phoronix - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 19:19
It's been a while since having any major break-through changes to talk about for GNOME contributed by Canonical's prolific developer Daniel Van Vugt, but he's been at the grind making progress on some big ticket items...

AMD Zen1/Zen2/Zen3 PowerCap RAPL Support Queued For Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 16:36
The work reported on back in October for RAPL PowerCap patches for AMD Zen CPUs from Zen 1 through Zen 3 are set to arrive with Linux 5.11 in early 2021...

Manage multiple Terraform versions with tfenv

opensource.com - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 16:02

In my Terraform for Kubernetes beginners article, I used Terraform 11, and in an upcoming article, I'll cover upgrading from Terraform 11 to 12. To prepare for that, in this article, I'll show you how to use tfenv, a tool that makes it much easier to convert from one version to another, as well as to manage multiple Terraform versions in your work environment.


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Unlock encrypted disks on Linux automatically

opensource.com - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 16:01

From a security viewpoint, it's important to encrypt your sensitive data to protect it from prying eyes and hackers. Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is a great tool and a common standard for Linux disk encryption. Because it stores all pertinent setup information in the partition header, it makes migrating data easy.


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How to use Serializers in the Django Python web framework

opensource.com - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 16:00

Serialization is the process of transforming data into a format that can be stored or transmitted and then reconstructing it. It's used all the time when developing applications or storing data in databases, in memory, or converting it into files.

I recently helped two junior developers at Labcodes understand serializers, and I thought it would be good to share my approach with Opensource.com readers.


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