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Building a Center of Excellence for Ansible

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:00
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

How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux

Tecmint - 6 hours 59 min ago
The post How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You need a 1GB test file to benchmark your disk, fill a partition to a specific threshold, or simulate a

The post How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware

Phoronix - 10 hours 17 min ago
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 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements

Phoronix - 10 hours 56 min ago
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...

Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - 14 hours 37 min ago
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...

PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth

Phoronix - 14 hours 46 min ago
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...

Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows

Phoronix - 17 hours 10 min ago
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...

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