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Celebrating the global partner ecosystem with Stefanie Chiras

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 08:00
Last week, Stefanie Chiras, Senior Vice President of Partner Ecosystem Success at Red Hat, was honored as the 2023 CRN Woman of the Year Award winner in the vendor and distributor category.Chiras’s win in the inaugural CRN Women of the Year Awards celebrates her remarkable commitment to driving positive change, leadership and channel success within the tech landscape through establishing and delivering a worldwide ecosystem strategy to support Red Hat's scale as a global entity. Over the past year, Chiras has guided the global ecosystem team to introduce new rules of engagement, bolster part

Power Management Bugs Hold Up Some Linux Laptops Due To Regulatory Requirements

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 03:56
Holding up some laptops from shipping Linux pre-loaded around the world come down to regulatory certifications for power management not currently being met on Linux while working fine on Windows...

Glibc Is The Latest Open-Source Project Adopting A Code of Conduct

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 02:41
The GNU C Library "glibc" is the latest free software project to adopt a Code of Conduct (CoC) in aiming to encourage welcoming behavior and less controversy among developers and other stakeholders when engaging this key component to the Linux software ecosystem...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Enable Frame Pointers By Default For Better Profiling/Debugging

Phoronix - Thu, 12/14/2023 - 00:51
Canonical has decided for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that they will now enable frame pointers by default when building packages. There will still selectively be some packages where they decide to disable frame pointers due to the performance overhead, but the focus on this change is to improve the out-of-the-box debugging and profiling support on the Linux distribution...

X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Two Decade-Old Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 21:45
The X.Org Server doesn't see much in the way of feature work these days with Red Hat and others divesting from classic X.Org/X11 sessions. But there continues to be new point releases of the X.Org Server and the XWayland code due to long-standing security issues within the X.Org codebase. New point releases were out last night due to two CVEs for bugs dating back to 2007 and 2009...

LibreOffice 24.2 Beta Released For Testing This Free Software Office Suite

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 21:34
LibreOffice 24.2 Beta 1 is available today as the latest test candidate for this cross-platform open-source office suite that is packing many new features while also changing its approach to versioning...

FreeRDP 3.0 Released With WebSocket Transport, Relative Mouse Movement & More

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 21:25
FreeRDP 3.0 stable was released today as this open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for allowing nice remote access support...

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