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CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux, Uniting Stability, Compatibility, Security and Performance  Telecom Reseller

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux, Uniting Stability, Compatibility, Security and Performance  PR Web

Cerber Linux Ransomware Exploits Atlassian Servers to Take Full Control  GBHackers

Yaskawa Electric's Next-Generation Industrial Robot with AI and Autonomy Uses Wind River Linux  Business Wire

LXQt 2.0 is now available for this lightweight desktop environment that has now been ported to the Qt 6.6+ toolkit. Additionally, much of the LXQt components are ready to be used under Wayland compositors...

Critical Atlassian Flaw Exploited to Deploy Linux Variant of Cerber Ransomware  The Hacker News

Following last year Nouveau receiving support for running with the NVIDIA GSP firmware and initial GeForce RTX 40 series accelerated support, Ben Skeggs of Red Hat unexpectedly resigned as the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer. It turns out this longtime open-source Nouveau driver developer is now employed by NVIDIA Corp and continuing to work on the open-source Linux graphics driver...

Linux desktop environment KDE Plasma 6 receives bugfix update 6.0.4  Notebookcheck.net

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved RPM 4.20 to land for the Fedora 41 cycle that will debut in H2'2024. RPM 4.20 is a significant update for this widely-used packaging format...

Queued as part of the ARM64 patches in the various "-next" branches ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is a script for being able to build Flat Image Trees (FITs). A Flat Image Tree is the compiled Linux kernel paired with the associated DeviceTree content that is compressed and easily then distributed and executed by capable bootloaders...

Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees  Phoronix

Merged on Tuesday into GNOME Mutter is NVIDIA secondary GPU copy acceleration support that allows for much better performance of hybrid laptops featuring integrated graphics paired with a discrete NVIDIA GPU...

As expected, the first release candidate of the forthcoming XWayland 24.1 is now available ahead of its planned stable debut in May...

NetBSD turns 30 and releases version 10 • The Register  The Register

NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later  The Register

Linux Foundation drives open-source AI with creation of OPEA  Techzine Europe

Linux Foundation, Intel and others promote open-source data stacks for enterprise generative AI  SiliconANGLE News

The Linux Foundation, Intel and others promote open-source RAG stacks for enterprise generative AI  SiliconANGLE News

Lubuntu 24.04 LTS to Include Snap Installation Monitor for a Smoother Experience  9to5Linux

In this article, we provide essential “how to” technical information for deploying SAS Institute's SAS Viya platform, on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) as well as provide a reference architecture. For some general security, machine management and storage considerations when deploying SAS Viya on Red Hat OpenShift please take a look at our previous two part series (part 1, part 2).Based on the collaboration between Red Hat and SAS, we have adopted a holistic approach to SAS Viya on OpenShift. SAS Viya can now be deployed and supported on most x86_64 platforms where OpenShift can be