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Building the future: Core concepts of Red Hat’s agentic software development life cycle

Red Hat News - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 08:00
When integrating AI into your software development processes, the methodology you use to build software is as important as the models themselves. At Red Hat, we believe the true value of AI emerges when it is integrated into transparent, scalable, and reliable enterprise workflows. We're moving beyond traditional development practices toward a new agentic software development life cycle (SDLC). Within Red Hat AI Engineering, this approach treats AI agents not as isolated, automated tools, but as active, collaborative participants in the development lifecycle—helping drive progress from the i

Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5"

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 06:05
In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version...

GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options

Phoronix - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 03:36
Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain...

"KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure

Phoronix - Sun, 07/26/2026 - 23:32
A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure"...

User Frustrations Over The "Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound" Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/26/2026 - 21:24
Besides the FreeBSD graphics and WiFi drivers lagging behind Linux and other operating systems, the FreeBSD audio driver support and handling of audio streams with FreeBSD on the desktop can be problematic depending upon the hardware/system. One of the most active mailing list threads this week in the FreeBSD camp was over the "tragic state" of FreeBSD audio/sound support...

Auto-CPUFreq 3.1 Adds Monitoring Mode To GUI, New Configuration Options & Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 07/26/2026 - 19:00
Auto-CPUFreq is one of the open-source projects striving to be a CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux systems to improve battery life without making any real compromises to the user experience. Out today is v3.1 as the newest feature release of Auto-CPUFreq...

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