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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

New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1

Phoronix - 2 hours 37 min ago
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...

Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week

Phoronix - 2 hours 55 min ago
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...

LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1

Phoronix - 3 hours 9 min ago
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 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements

Phoronix - 3 hours 20 min ago
Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...

KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency

Phoronix - 3 hours 37 min ago
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...

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

Phoronix - 19 hours 14 min ago
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...

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