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For two decades, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have celebrated the groundbreaking technological achievements of our customers worldwide. These organizations demonstrate visionary problem-solving, leveraging the power of open source to drive significant impact across industries and society. This year’s winners are ARSAT, Emirates NBD, One NZ and TD. A community-wide, online voting process will determine which customer is distinguished as the 2026 Red Hat Innovator of the Year. Voting is now open and will close at 9 a.m. ET on May 7th. The winner will be announced on May 11, 2026, during Red

The countdown to Red Hat Summit 2026 is on! As we gear up for Atlanta next week (May 11-14), here’s everything you can expect from Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud at the event.If you’re new to the service, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud is a fully managed application platform that allows customers to focus on building and scaling applications that drive their core business. Customers can run containers, virtual machines, and AI enabled workloads on a single, unified platform. Before Summit kicks off, we want to make sure you know Red Hat and Google Cloud recently a

Red Hat and Oracle are integral to the modern enterprise, with a large portion of global Fortune 500 companies using both Red Hat and Oracle solutions. That's why we’re continuing to grow our collaboration in ways that will support the dynamic needs of our joint customers. This means that we’re emphasizing concrete, technical, and commercial benefits that eliminate friction and maximize the value you get from your joint Red Hat and Oracle investments. From simplifying procurement through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console and Oracle Marketplace to confirming that your core workl

GNOME is good, actually  OSnews

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 18, 2026 (Apr 27 – May 3)  Linuxiac

Linux 7.1-rc2 Released With Audio Fix For Steam Deck OLED, Other Fixes  Phoronix

Linux 7.1-rc2 is out for testing with its accumulation of initial bug and regression fixes that have been collected over the past week since the Linux 7.1 merge window was capped off...

qBittorrent 5.2 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Many New Features  9to5Linux

4 Devices Your Steam Deck Can Connect To  bgr.com

Linux 7.1 update fixes Valve console sound driver bugs  GameGPU

I left GNOME for COSMIC, tried KDE next, and only one felt right in the end  MakeUseOf

My dream Google Chrome extension didn't exist, so I vibe coded it with Claude  How-To Geek

Brush v0.4 debuted today for this "Bourne Rusty Shell" as a Bash/POSIX-compatible shell written in the Rust programming language...

After months of desktop hopping, I finally understand why Linux users can't agree on anything  MakeUseOf

Copy Fail Linux Kernel Vulnerability Now Patched in Debian, Ubuntu, and Others  9to5Linux

I ditched desktop apps for these 5 Linux terminal apps—and I'm not going back  How-To Geek

ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows has seen some exciting improvements this week...

NixOS forced me to declare my entire system, and now I can't imagine Linux any other way  MakeUseOf

This week Google announced the selected Google Summer of Code "GSoC" 2026 projects for providing stipends to student developers for engaging in different open-source projects. This year a lot of open-source projects involve AI/LLM adoption but there are also a number of other interesting student projects at large from GNOME Mutter GPU reset recovery to adding new features to FreeBSD...

Update Linux Now As 9-Year-Old Root Hack Confirmed, CISA Warns Users  Forbes