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How partners are helping customers embrace the cloud with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Red Hat News - Mon, 03/29/2021 - 12:00

Last week, Red Hat and AWS announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a fully managed and jointly supported offering that enables organizations to build, deploy and manage applications with Red Hat OpenShift, delivered as a native AWS service accessible through the AWS Management Console.

Linux 5.12-rc5 Released - It's Bigger Than Average

Phoronix - Mon, 03/29/2021 - 08:20
Today's release of Linux 5.12-rc5 is "bigger than average" for this stage of kernel development and if that keeps up is likely to result in an extra week's worth of testing / an -rc8 release ahead of Linux 5.12 final, but it's too early to call at this stage...

Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine

Phoronix - Mon, 03/29/2021 - 05:46
While Godot receives much of the - well deserved - attention when it comes to open-source, cross-platform game engines, another deserving contender is the Flax Engine that just reached v1.0 last year after going public in 2018...

Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation

Phoronix - Mon, 03/29/2021 - 00:54
This month saw many new and updated test profiles for the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org for carrying out fully-automated, reproducible cross-platform benchmarking...

Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/28/2021 - 18:03
An interesting open-source project that has been brought up now a few times by Phoronix readers is Box86 for allowing 32-bit x86 programs to run unmodified on non-x86 Linux systems like ARM...

Wine-Staging 6.5 Comes In A Bit Lighter Thanks To Upstreaming Many Patches

Phoronix - Sun, 03/28/2021 - 17:43
Two weeks ago Wine-Staging 6.4 was at nearly 700 patches while this weekend's release of Wine-Staging 6.5 lowers that to 661 patches thanks to a number of them being upstreamed...

Mesa Considers Raising CPU Support Baseline

Phoronix - Sun, 03/28/2021 - 12:00
Mesa developers are currently discussing the raising of the default compiler baseline for Mesa drivers moving forward, which would raise the base CPU requirements for these open-source Mesa drivers unless overriding the compiler flags. However, all but the very oldest systems would be negatively impacted...

Debian 10.9 Released With FWUPD SBAT Support, Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/27/2021 - 22:49
While Debian 11.0 is brewing and currently under a hard freeze, Debian 10.9 is out this weekend as the latest stable update to Debian 10 "Buster"...

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