Games, Graphics, and Fedora/IBM
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Steam Deck: Availability News, Dock Release, OS updates and the Yuzu Incident - Boiling Steam
There’s been a few big developments related to the Steam Deck in the past week, so let’s get to it! The first one is about the availability of the device.
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This will make the scalpers cry, but it seems like Valve has now increased their production to a point where they can now accept orders and ship directly without entering a queue system (note: this does not apply to Asia for some reason, where I am still waiting for Komodo to give any kind of useful info about the order since August 4th 2022). This also invalidates a bunch of predictions we have made back in early 2022: many of us expected the device to still remain largely limited in supply by the end of the year, and it looks like the situation has changed much faster than we had anticipated. In other news, there’s unsubtantiated numbers circulating around (in a recent KDE presentation related to the Steam Deck, the number of 1 million of Decks sold was given, without any specific source) that seem to indicate that the production is accelerating.
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Libva 2.16.0 Update Improves Intel VA-API Graphics Library, Benefits Arc GPUs on Linux
Intel released the latest Libva update (version 2.16.0) to improve the VA-API library in Linux. The update will improve graphics hardware acceleration seen in multimedia software. The Libva integration is also commonly used in many drivers within Linux.
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Welcome to our new Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator
Great news, Fedora Friends! I am excited to announce that we have completed our search for a new Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator (FCAIC). He joins the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) team at Red Hat to work with the Fedora Community today. Please give a warm welcome to Justin W. Flory (he/him).
If you’re a contributor to Fedora, you may have already worked with Justin on a variety of teams and projects. Although I couldn’t possibly list them all in one post, Justin’s Fedora contribution highlights include co-founding CommOps, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (D.E.I.) Team, and Mindshare Committee. More contribution highlights include former editor-in-chief of the Fedora Magazine and Community Blog, former Council Member, leading the Marketing team, contributing as a packager, and traveling to events and conferences worldwide as a Fedora Ambassador. He has attended many Flocks: organizing workshops, presenting sessions, and coordinating informal socials like the international candy swap. Most recently Justin presented “5 Lessons Learned from 5 years of Fedora’s D.E.I. Events” at Nest with Fedora 2022.
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Introduction to Kubernetes operators for sysadmins | Enable Sysadmin
Learn about Kubernetes operators and when you should use them—and when you shouldn't.
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Hybrid cloud: 5 ways it can improve the customer experience | The Enterprisers Project
Remember when mobile phone service providers owned your mobile phone number? If you wanted to switch to another provider, you had to change your number and make sure all of your contacts got the new one (assuming you were brave enough to deal with the headache).
There’s a similar situation today with cloud technologies. Should you place your bets on one cloud provider and keep everything in-house – or pursue a hybrid cloud strategy and avoid getting stuck?
We took that question to Red Hat’s former bankers, who identified five critical advantages of adopting a hybrid cloud model.