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The best of both worlds: How Microsoft and Red Hat are revolutionizing enterprise IT

Red Hat News - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 08:00
Microsoft Azure is one of the leading cloud computing platforms in the world, offering a wide range of services that help businesses of all sizes to achieve their goals. One of the key strengths of Azure is its ability to integrate with other technologies and platforms, allowing customers to build powerful solutions that leverage the strengths of multiple tools. One such example is the collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat, which has resulted in the development of innovative and powerful hybrid cloud solutions available today. Since 2015, Microsoft and Red Hat have remained committed

Rocky Linux 9.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Support, AArch64 64kb Page Size Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 05:12
Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and AlmaLinux 9.2, Rocky Linux 9.2 is now also available as this alternative community-supported flavor of RHEL...

Lutris 0.5.13 Released - More Responsive & Restores Ability To Run Games Via Proton

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 05:02
Lutris 0.5.13 is now available as the newest feature release for this open-source game manager...

Intel Uncore Frequency Linux Driver Prepares For TPMI & Cluster Level Power Controls

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 01:07
A set of patches to the Intel Uncore Frequency (intel-uncore-freq) Linux driver are expected for the Linux 6.5 cycle that integrate support for the TPMI interface and prepare for upcoming processors with cluster-level power controls...

Loongson Begins Posting Linux Patches For 3A6000 Series CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 00:00
While the Loongson 3A6000 processors have yet to be officially launched, rumors since last year put it on target for launching in the first half of this year and some claims that there is such performance uplift that these Chinese CPUs could rival AMD Zen 3 or Intel Tiger Lake levels of performance. Ahead of the 3A6000 series launch, Linux patches have begun appearing for these next-gen LoongArch processors...

SQLite 3.42 Released With "Secure Delete" Command

Phoronix - Tue, 05/16/2023 - 23:30
SQLite 3.42 is now available as the newest update to this widely-used, embed-friendly SQL database option that is used by countless applications and other software for lightweight and speedy data storage purposes...

Parallel CPU Bring-Up Poised For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Tue, 05/16/2023 - 21:09
Months in the making have been the patches for x86_64 parallel CPU boot support to allow secondary CPU cores to be booted in parallel for shortening Linux kernel boot times. Over time the Linux parallel CPU bring-up patches have gone through many revisions while it looks like this work is now positioned for introduction with the Linux 6.5 kernel later this summer...

Arch Linux Prepares For Repository Changes, Discontinuing SVN Access

Phoronix - Tue, 05/16/2023 - 20:25
This Friday is the planned Git packaging migration for the Arch Linux distribution that will see some repository splits as well as discontinuing SVN access...

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