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Customer success stories: Red Hat helps drive business process modernization

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/25/2022 - 12:00

In this month’s customer success highlights, you’ll learn how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Consulting are helping different organizations modernize their business processes through digital transformation, container adoption and process automation. Not only are these projects helping achieve current priorities and goals, they’re also laying the groundwork for future scalability and innovation.

Linux 5.18-rc4 Released After Another Calm Week

Phoronix - Mon, 04/25/2022 - 06:45
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.18-rc4 and so far the kernel is looking good at this mid-stage of the development cycle...

RADV LBVH Ray-Tracing Code Lands In Mesa 22.2

Phoronix - Sun, 04/24/2022 - 23:39
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" LBVH support has landed for boosting the Vulkan ray-tracing potential for this open-source driver. The LBVH patch series is what I reported on earlier this month for at least one workload going from around 13 to 250 FPS boost...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager

Phoronix - Sun, 04/24/2022 - 18:03
In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines... Those with Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and launching Ubuntu 22.04 desktop VMs will find 3D acceleration disabled by default...

FFmpeg Lands JPEG-XL Support

Phoronix - Sun, 04/24/2022 - 17:56
The widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has merged support for the JPEG-XL image format...

AMD Sends Out Updated Linux Patches For PerfMonV2 That's Expected With Zen 4

Phoronix - Sun, 04/24/2022 - 17:32
AMD's open-source Linux engineers on the CPU side of the house continue being quite busy with all sorts of new feature enablement work, which given their timing and other factors is almost all definitively for upcoming Zen 4. AMD this week sent out updated patches in getting "PerfMonV2" support in order that is updated performance monitoring abilities with upcoming processors...

PAPPL 1.2 Beta Printer Application Framework Released

Phoronix - Sun, 04/24/2022 - 17:05
In addition to CUPS back to seeing new feature development for this print server now being managed by OpenPrinting, CUPS founder Michael Sweet also continues being quite busy with working on PAPPL as his modern printer application framework effort...

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