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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

With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software...

After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday...

Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week  Phoronix

LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.1 merge window are a number of enhancements to the LoongArch architecture support for that Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V...

Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...

Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements  Phoronix

KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...

Zorin OS vs. Solus: I tested two great Linux distros for beginners to find out which is best  ZDNET

Linux Kernel Drops AX.25 and Amateur Radio Subsystem Support  Amateur Radio Daily

SUSE Extends Single-Kernel Linux Strategy from Edge to Data Center  EE Times

I can use GNOME without these 5 extensions, but I really don’t want to  MakeUseOf

You can finally tweak Android's Linux Terminal the way you want it  How-To Geek

12-year-old Pack2TheRoot bug lets Linux users gain root privileges  Security Affairs

Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...

AI coding is now a core part of Linux's development, but I'm not worried  XDA

CachyOS is great, but you should also try these 4 other gaming-focused Linux distros  MakeUseOf

Linux enthusiasts swear by these old business laptops (and you should too)  How-To Geek