Open-source News

The Networking Changes For Linux 5.17 Are Very Exciting

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 20:40
The Linux networking subsystem updates for the in-development 5.17 kernel are quite exciting as usual given how prolific Linux is from large servers in the cloud to running on enterprise networking gear down to Linux on small IoT hardware. Not only is there a lot of hardware driver action as usual but also some key performance/latency optimizations...

USI Stylus, LetSketch Tablet Driver, Better Apple Magic Device Support In Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 20:06
The HID subsystem changes are rather exciting this time around of the new feature material for Linux 5.17...

XWayland 22.1 Planned For Release Next Month

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 18:59
It's been almost one year already since the last XWayland standalone feature release separate from the X.Org Server codebase itself while now the next feature installment will soon be out...

Linux 5.17 EDAC Driver Brings Support For New AMD Zen CPUs, RDDR5 / LRDDR5 Memory

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 18:21
With the Linux 5.17 kernel merge window formally open today, among the early pull requests sent out this morning were the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver updates which is notable this time in preparation for next-generation AMD EPYC server hardware...

GNU Linux-libre 5.16 Brings More Firmware Cleansing, Deblobbing

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 17:30
Following yesterday's release of Linux 5.16, the GNU folks have released GNU Linux-libre 5.16-gnu as their downstream that removes/disables any code depending upon non-open-source firmware/microcode binaries, the ability to load proprietary kernel modules, and other cleaning in the name of free software...

Why we built an open source testing framework

opensource.com - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 16:00

If you've ever wanted to join an open source community and contribute or start an open source project of your own, then read on to find out about our fun and awesome open source project we created from scratch at Red Hat. I'm a Software Quality Engineering Manager in the OpenStack Networking group, and together with a team of engineers both from my team and from R&D, we collaborated to create the Tobiko open source testing framework.

Sometimes, you just have to start a new open source project.


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How Red Hat’s helping customers with high performance computing, container technology and more

Red Hat News - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 13:00

In this month’s customer success stories, we share how customers in Belgium, Norway and Slovenia have used Red Hat technologies to work better and faster as we enter the new year. Get the details:

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