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From the mainframe to the edge: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z16 – the next generation of IBM zSystems

Red Hat News - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 12:00

As we’ve said before, every IT organization is different - from the underlying architecture and public cloud usage to edge strategies and the applications actually running in production.

AlmaLinux 9 Beta Released For Testing As No-Cost RHEL9 Alternative

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 07:46
Following the RHEL 9.0 Beta from last November and CentOS Stream 9 for the bleeding-edge RHEL9, the AlmaLinux crew today announced their 9.0 beta milestone. AlmaLinux over the past year has proven itself capable as a popular, community-based RHEL alternative that started after Red Hat announced it would discontinue the no-cost CentOS Linux downstream...

W3C Posts Initial WebAssembly 2.0 Working Drafts

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 06:50
WebAssembly as the W3C standard for a portable binary-code format for executable programs on the web and elsewhere continues seeing exciting new use-cases for speedy web applications and even desktop purposes. This open standard continues advancing though and the first public working drafts of WebAssembly 2.0 were published today...

NVIDIA Posts Open-Source DRM Kernel Driver For NVDLA

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 00:12
NVIDIA has posted 13k lines of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver code for review for supporting their NVDLA IP block...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release Candidate Images For Last Minute Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 21:30
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" is set to be officially released this Thursday while available today are the hopefully-final release candidate images...

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