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Proving open source is ready for the industrial edge

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 08:00
For years, the industrial sector has operated under the assumption that the core of a factory, the real-time control system, must remain a locked, proprietary environment. We've often accepted these restricted systems as a requirement for the deterministic performance mission-critical machinery demands. However, the existing industrial architecture is proving difficult to maintain as we move toward a modern environment defined by interconnected systems and the need for real-time data.Recent performance testing conducted by Red Hat and Intel provides the evidence needed to challenge the status

Integrating Red Hat Lightspeed with CrowdStrike for enhanced malware detection coverage

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 08:00
Today’s cybersecurity teams need proactive defense mechanisms to meet modern threats as the threat landscape continues to evolve and change. We're excited to announce a significant advancement for our customers: the integration of Red Hat Lightspeed with CrowdStrike, empowering Red Hat Enterprise Linux users with an expanded arsenal against malware threats.A new era of malware signature coverageCustomers who use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Lightspeed, and CrowdStrike can now immediately benefit from the addition of over 2,400 new malware signatures to their defensive arsenal. While the

From RAG to agentic AI: When models stop answering and start acting

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 08:00
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) gave AI a memory. Agents give it a job description. This captures where enterprise AI is today—the first wave focused on helping models say the right thing, but the next wave is about helping systems do the right thing.Generative AI (gen AI) has moved quickly from experimentation with large language models (LLMs) to a race to operationalize AI at enterprise scale. For many organizations, RAG was the first practical step, grounding model outputs in enterprise data and making gen AI usable in real business contexts. But enterprises don't run on answers, the

GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 06:45
Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications...

New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 04:58
Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...

GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 03:14
A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...

Linux 7.1 Adds Some New PCIe Drivers While Nuking Some PCI Drivers

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 01:40
The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a wide assortment of PCI(e) changes from new to old hardware...

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 04/19/2026 - 21:25
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and other GCN 1.1 era APUs. Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware...

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