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EMEA’s cloud sovereignty puzzle takes shape

Red Hat News - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 08:00
Digital sovereignty is not a new topic, but recent events on the world stage have catapulted it to the top of the top of boardroom agendas and government priorities alike. According to a 2025 BARC study, 84% of surveyed companies view data sovereignty as a central point of their strategy, and 70 percent report significantly increased relevance in the past one to two years. Meanwhile, industry analyst firm Gartner forecasts the sovereign cloud IaaS market will be worth $169 billion in 2028, up from $37 billion last year.Different countries and organisations are adopting different approaches to

GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 05:30
GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2. Most notable with GIMP 3.1.4 are the initial implementations of two of the main features planned for GIMP 3.2: link layers and vector layers...

Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 04:19
With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to "significantly reduce" linking times...

AMD Begins Queuing Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 02:00
On Friday AMD sent out their initial batch of kernel graphics driver feature changes intended for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

Gentex PLACE Any Space PL1AS / PL1K As A Replacement For Nest Protect Smoke Detectors

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 00:28
Not your typical review on Phoronix today but rather a brief look at the Gentex PLACE Any Space smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. For those facing ten years on their Nest Protect smoke detectors and looking for an end-of-life replacement to these smoke detectors discontinued by Google, the Gentex PLACE smart smoke detectors are an interesting and capable alternative. Being faced by needing to find a replacement to Nest Protects myself that have now expired and finding many others in the same boat with no clear winning smart smoke detector right now, I decided to go with the Gentex PLACE and figured it worthwhile to share a bit of my experience.

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time

Phoronix - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time. For cases of small cluster sizes on large partitions this can yield around 16x faster loading times...

Redox OS Gets COSMIC Reader Working, Other Improvements To This Rust OS

Phoronix - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 21:45
The open-source Redox OS operating system project written in the Rust programming language is out with its status update covering August 2025...

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