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The Headaches Supporting Content Protection With Linux GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 19:07
Intel driver engineer Suraj Kandpal presented at the recent X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2025) on the challenges around supporting content protection on Linux such as for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP)...

Fedora 44 Looking At Replacing FBCON With KMSCON As Default VT Console

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 18:55
Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel's console "FBCON" with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel...

GCC Compiler Developers Begin Considering C++20 Default

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 18:39
Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C++ version when not otherwise specified...

EROFS File-System Continues Attracting More Industry Players

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 09:33
The EROFS read-only file-system started by Huawei and now maintained by a growing number of contributors continues attracting even more interest. EROFS has exhibited much potential for mobile devices as well as container use-cases while proving itself to be quite robust since its mainlining back in 2019...

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9: Security built with your workflows in mind

Red Hat News - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 08:00
We’ve been dedicated to advancing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes in line with the rapid evolution of Kubernetes security. With version 4.9, we’re introducing key integrations and updates designed to help streamline your workflows. To that end, we’ve improved our ability to integrate with other tools and services, enhanced visibility into operations, and begun the work of bringing virtual machines (VMs) into our scope of reporting and scanning. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Integration with ServiceNowA significant highlight of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9 is

Friday Five — November 14, 2025

Red Hat News - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 08:00
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NewsroomAt KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Red Hat is redefining the modern application platform to unite your IT estate: from legacy VMs to next-generation AI workloads. Check out the headlines and dive into our newsroom. Learn more FastForward - Red Hat’s CTO sees AI as next step for company’s open approachRed Hat's CTO, Chris Wright, talks with FastForward about how AI is the logical next step in the company's long-standing open hybrid cloud strategy. To do this, Red Hat is focusing on leveraging existing open source tools like Linux and Kubernetes, extending them to

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