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As Ansible adoption grows, a challenge can arise: How do organizations track automation efforts across the entire enterprise? A common solution is to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Ansible, helping organizations move from isolated automation efforts to a scalable, coordinated enterprise strategy. What is a Center of Excellence for Ansible?A CoE for Ansible is a group responsible for setting automation standards and promoting Ansible’s collaborative open source nature. The CoE acts as an enablement and governance body, allowing for more effective automation across the organization

Linux doesn't need the terminal anymore, and that's actually great  XDA

Linux Weekly 6: 9950X3D2, Local AI On Intel GPUs, And Forbidden Routers (edkvYCcO6h)  fathomjournal.org

The April 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux based CachyOS is now available with a variety of refinements, new hardware support, and other polishing...

CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler  Phoronix

CachyOS ISO Release for April 2026 Brings Shelly as Default GUI Package Manager  9to5Linux

I tried the most "bloated" Linux distro, and it's still better than Windows  How-To Geek

Linux Size 70  Phoronix

Linux's i3 will humble you before it impresses you—here's how to skip the humbling part  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out later today for closing the Linux 7.1 merge window, I was curious if all the code removals would lead to a negative change in line count over Linux 7.0. The removals were not enough and Linux 7.1 Git is fast approaching 40 million lines...

The Linux Kernel Tree About To Hit 40 Million Lines, AMD Driver Above 6 Million Lines  Phoronix

After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all  The Verge

Linux crushes Windows on llama.cpp inference by double digits  Startup Fortune

The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max  Phoronix

Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer. Greg has now shared more light on the "gregkh_clanker_t1000" for this tool that has been uncovering more Linux kernel bugs the past few weeks...

Ms Office Alternative Software For Linux Market Analysis  openPR.com

A new progress report from the Asahi Linux project is now published that highlights recent upstreaming work for the Linux 7.0 kernel release as well as the latest additions to the downstream Asahi Linux code. The Asahi Linux project also pushed out their first updated Asahi installer in nearly two years...

Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1  Phoronix

Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon Support as Fedora Asahi Remix 44 Nears  Linuxiac

The legacy xf86-video-nv driver for user-space mode-setting on old NVIDIA GPUs is out with a rather rare release and the first in over two years with a collection of different bug fixes...