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Skills gap proves a growing barrier for digital transformation initiatives

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/30/2021 - 13:00

In this year’s Red Hat 2022 Global Tech Outlook report, skill-set or talent gaps emerged as the top barrier organizations believe will prevent them from achieving their digital transformation goals. See how Red Hat can help.

Valve Posts Updated Steam Deck FAQs To Address More Community Questions

Phoronix - Tue, 11/30/2021 - 08:43
Valve has provided an updated "frequently asked questions" area stemming from community questions during the recent Steam Deck developer event...

More Features Begin Lining Up For Fedora 36

Phoronix - Tue, 11/30/2021 - 04:16
With a few weeks having passed since the Fedora 35 debut, more feature work and planning around next spring's Fedora 36 are underway...

Major Rewrite Of Linux's FS-Cache / CacheFiles So It's Smaller & Simpler

Phoronix - Tue, 11/30/2021 - 03:24
As part of David Howells of Red Hat long-term work on improving the caching code used by network file-systems, he today posted a big patch series rewriting the fscache and cachefiles code as the latest significant step on that adventure...

CrossOver 21.1 Released With GTA V Support, Restores Outlook 2016 & 365 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/30/2021 - 02:26
CodeWeavers is kicking off the new week by releasing CrossOver 21.1 for Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS users wanting to enjoy Windows games and applications...

FWUPD Linux Firmware Updater Prepares "Best Known Configuration" Feature

Phoronix - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 21:37
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and FWUPD on their great upward trajectory has in recent times been expanding beyond their initial focus of desktop/laptop hardware to supporting more server platforms for firmware updating. The latest feature driven by their growing server interests is "best known configuration" handling for where there are multiple independently-versioned firmware packages for a given system and may be support recommendations or potential version conflicts between the the different firmware packages...

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