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How to Create Ansible Plays and Playbooks – Part 5

Tecmint - Mon, 12/02/2019 - 15:18
In this Part 5 of Ansible Series, we will explain how to create Ansible Plays and Playbooks using Ansible modules. Ansible ships with standalone scripts called modules that are used in playbooks for the...

Registration for Red Hat Summit 2020 now open!

Red Hat News - Mon, 12/02/2019 - 13:00

One of the most exciting days of the year is finally here. Registration for Red Hat Summit 2020 is now open!

We’re heading back to San Francisco and the Moscone Center on April 27-29, 2020, where we expect thousands of customers, partners and technology industry leaders from around the world to come together for a high-energy week of innovation, education and collaboration.

Linux 5.5 Seeing Some Wild Swings In Performance - Improvements But Also Regressions

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2019 - 01:15
While there still is a week to go in the Linux 5.5 merge window with more feature code still landing, due to scheduler changes and other work already having landed, I already started running some Git benchmarks. Linux 5.5 at this stage appears quite volatile with some really nice improvements in some workloads but also regressions in others...

Video: 100+ Daily Performance Tests For Clear Linux + Intel's Other Full-Stack Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 12/01/2019 - 23:16
A month ago at the Open-Source Summit Europe 2019 in Lyon, France, Intel's Kelly Hammond who serves as the company's Senior Director of System Platform Software talked up their open-source contributions with a particular emphasis on performance. The video from that keynote was recently published for those curious about Intel's open-source work in the name of performance, including Clear Linux...

GDB Adds Multi-Threaded Symbol Loading For Faster Debugging Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 12/01/2019 - 21:52
It's not often there are features to report on with regard to GNU Debugger (GDB) performance, but a new feature in place is multi-threaded symbol loading...

Linux 5.5 Block Changes Include NVMe Temperature Monitoring, Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 12/01/2019 - 20:43
The Linux 5.5 block changes landed earlier this week with a wide variety of driver and core improvements. There are some I/O optimizations to make the pull exciting as well as the NVMe HWMON drive temperature reporting integration...

VMs Can Finally Hibernate Under Microsoft Hyper-V With Linux 5.5

Phoronix - Sun, 12/01/2019 - 20:23
It seems like the feature would have been wired up long ago, but with the Linux 5.5 kernel guest virtual machines running on Microsoft Hyper-V should be able to successfully hibernate...

KDE Now Deals With GTK CSD Headerbars - Improving GNOME App Integration On Plasma

Phoronix - Sun, 12/01/2019 - 19:52
There is an exciting improvement to the GTK client side decoration handling ahead of the KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS release due out in February...

Genode OS Framework 19.11 Brings Initial Block Device Encryption Code

Phoronix - Sun, 12/01/2019 - 13:04
It's been nearly a decade now that we have been tracking Genode as an interesting open-source operating system framework...

Ice Lake, Threadripper, New CPU Vulnerabilities + Linux 5.4 Release Dominated November

Phoronix - Sun, 12/01/2019 - 09:16
Looking back on November there was the exciting release of new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X/3970X processors, Intel Core i9 10980XE Cascadelake-X also released, various new CPU vulnerabilities were disclosed, Linux gaming performance continued getting better with Mesa, the Linux 5.4 got buttoned up and released with its many new features, and other open-source milestones achieved. And there's a new Phoronix worker in-training...

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