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Faster Onboarding for New Infrastructure Providers with Red Hat OpenShift’s External Platform

Red Hat News - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 08:00
OpenShift users have many options when it comes to deploying a Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Whether installing on-premises, in the cloud, or to your own hybrid configuration, OpenShift has integrations to help your journey. Today we are pleased to announce a new platform type to enable partners to achieve varying levels of integration not previously possible in OpenShift: the external platform. What is the External Platform? The external platform is a new configuration for OpenShift which allows deep infrastructure customization. Whereas integrated platforms such as AWS, GCP, or OpenStack insta

In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10-RC1 Released As A Huge Update

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 05:02
NetBSD 10 has been in development since late 2019 and the beta release is already a year old while now it's up to the release candidate phase with the availability of NetBSD 10-RC1...

AMD Cleaning Up RadeonSI Linux Driver Code Ahead Of Next-Gen GPU Enablement

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 03:25
There's been a number of patches quietly landing for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by AMD engineers in making various clean-ups and appearing to prepare for future adjustments to the driver in eventually extending the support beyond the current RDNA3 "GFX11" graphics hardware...

Intel Lunar Lake M Added To LPSS Driver In Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 03:03
The Multi-Function Device (MFD) updates were sent out last week for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel for these drivers catering to heterogeneous hardware blocks...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released With KDE Frameworks 6 & KDE Gear Updates Too

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 00:41
Today marks the on-time alpha release of the "KDE 6th Megarelease" -- this encompasses the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop, KDE Frameworks 6 libraries, and KDE Gear applications...

Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.3 Implemented Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 00:15
Microsoft engineers continue working on the Mesa drivers as part of their effort for implementing various industry standard APIs atop Direct3D 12. This support can be used in cases of Windows drivers lacking for these APIs as well as being used within WSL for the graphics support while relying on D3D12 with the host environment...

Linux 6.7 Staging Drops The QLGE Ethernet & rtl8192u WiFi Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 00:03
The staging changes for Linux 6.7 are on the heavier side in part due to many new contributors from Outreachy mailing in their first kernel patches with various minor fixes. But staging is also lightened up a bit by dropping a wired Ethernet and wireless driver as part of the ongoing kernel effort to remove unused and old WiFi drivers...

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