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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

Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel

Phoronix - 11 hours 13 min ago
It turns out the Steam Deck OLED gaming handheld has not had working audio support with the mainline (upstream) Linux kernel since a change in late 2023 that was merged for Linux 6.8. There was an AMD ASoC audio change that inadvertently broke audio support for the Steam Deck OLED handheld but not affecting the original LCD model. Valve's downstream Steam OS kernel has compensated for this known breakage and other distributions targeting the Steam Deck OLED have carried the patch, but now there is a proper solution upstream ahead of Linux 7.1-rc2...

FUSEX File-System Being Developed For Extended/Experimental Features

Phoronix - 13 hours 47 min ago
Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been developing the FUSEX file-system as an extended/experimental area for File-System in User-Space "FUSE" development...

AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI

Phoronix - 15 hours 27 min ago
AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...

Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs

Phoronix - 17 hours 31 min ago
Merged on Friday ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc2 kernel release due out tomorrow were this week's batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics / display / accelerator driver fixes...

KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience

Phoronix - 18 hours 42 min ago
KDE Linux continues making progress as the in-house Linux distribution to best showcase the latest KDE Plasma desktop innovations...

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