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Red Hatters on 30 years of innovation, collaboration and community

Red Hat News - Mon, 03/27/2023 - 08:00
<p>It goes without saying that Red Hat has experienced a lot of change over the years. What was once a small company founded by entrepreneurs and techies Bob Young and Marc Ewing is now a global leader in open source technology and innovation. As we reflected upon the last three decades and took a look back at all we’ve learned and accomplished, a familiar story came to mind–how Red Hat got its name.&nbsp;</p> <p>Our company moniker comes directly from Ewing. As a student in this college computer lab, people would say, “If you need hel

Red Hat 30th anniversary: Celebrating Red Hat Day in North Carolina

Red Hat News - Mon, 03/27/2023 - 08:00
<p>Thirty years ago the world looked very different. Grunge music was everywhere, the Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl, Jurassic Park was the highest-grossing film, the first Beanie Babies were sold, sun-dried tomatoes were the hottest food trend and Red Hat was incorporated.&nbsp;</p> <p>When Bob Young and Marc Ewing came together to create Red Hat, they couldn’t have imagined what the company would become and the impact it would ultimately have on enterprise IT. From our humble beginnings at our first corporate headquarters in Durham to

Linux 6.3-rc4 Released: "Looking Pretty Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 03/27/2023 - 06:07
Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.3-rc4 as we reach around the half-way point of the Linux 6.3 kernel's development cycle...

Mesa 23.0.1 Released With Many Fixes For Intel / AMD / Zink

Phoronix - Mon, 03/27/2023 - 05:41
It's been one month since the release of Mesa 23.0 while it's finally been succeeded by Mesa 23.0.1 as the first point release containing a wide variety of bug fixes throughout this ecosystem of open-source 3D graphics drivers...

OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 Released With Linux 6.2 + KDE Plasma 5.27 Desktop

Phoronix - Mon, 03/27/2023 - 00:06
OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 has been released as the "rolling release" flavor of this Linux distribution whose roots trace back to the beautiful days of Mandrake Linux...

Linux Will Stop Randomizing Per-CPU Entry Area When KASLR Is Not Active

Phoronix - Sun, 03/26/2023 - 23:40
With the Linux 6.2 release kernel developers addressed "a tasty target for attackers" after it was realized that the per-CPU entry data was not being randomized, even in the presence of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR). The per-CPU entry area randomization has been present since Linux 6.3 but then was realized it's being activated even if KASLR was disabled, so now that is changing to avoid possible confusion...

Linux 6.4 Preparing DRM Deadline Hints To Help Influence GPU Frequency/Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 03/26/2023 - 19:10
Rob Clark on Saturday sent out a pull request adding the DMA-BUF/DMA-FENCE deadline awareness code to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem with the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle...

LLVM 17 Lands Initial Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extension ISA

Phoronix - Sun, 03/26/2023 - 18:54
Merged this weekend to the LLVM 17 development code-base is initial support for RISC-V's vector crypto extension ISA...

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