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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

Luckfox Aura is a Linux SBC with RV1126B processor, 3 TOPS NPU, and dual CSI  LinuxGizmos.com

the "Copy Fail" Attack: Linux Kernel Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access  صوت الإمارات

Red Hat Unveils RHEL 10.2 and 9.8, Strengthening Security & Hybrid Cloud Operations  The Fast Mode

Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...

D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...

Stop tolerating GNOME's limitations — here are 5 Linux desktops that give you real control  MakeUseOf

Dell and Lenovo Join Linux Vendor Firmware Update Project  TechPowerUp

Omarchy 3.7 Linux Distro Launches as a Gaming Edition  TechPowerUp

Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...

The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June...

New Quasar Linux Malware Is Stealing Developer Credentials with a Hidden Rootkit  HotHardware

I let two local LLMs fight over how to optimize a Linux VM, and they destroyed it instead  XDA

Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers that are ready for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 7.2 merge window happens in June. Most notable is the introduction of the AMDGPU DC power module to better align with the Radeon power management behavior under Microsoft Windows...

CISA Warning: High-Severity Linux Flaw Puts Unpatched Systems at Risk  TechRepublic

Quasar Linux (QLNX): A Supply Chain Foothold with Full RAT Capabilities  SOC Prime

I turned off one background service and my Linux machine finally felt fast  MakeUseOf

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance  Phoronix

When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.

ExpressVPN sharpens its desktop apps with faster controls and better accessibility — the updates are now live on Mac, Windows, and Linux  TechRadar