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Numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver Fixes For Linux 7.0-rc2

Phoronix - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 19:11
Sent out today were all of the DRM/accel driver fixes for the week, ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc2 kernel release due out on Sunday...

Genode OS 26.02 Halfway Done Migrating From GitHub To Codeberg

Phoronix - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 19:00
Genode OS 26.02 is out as the latest feature update to this open-source operating system framework that also serves as the basis for their Sculpt general purpose OS...

LXD 6.7 Released With AMD GPU Passthrough Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 09:09
Canonical today released LXD 6.7 as the latest feature update to this system container and virtual machine manager commonly used in Ubuntu Linux environments...

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Snapshot 4 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 08:26
The fourth and final monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" is now available for testing. This alternative to the Ubuntu 26.04 daily ISOs is a monthly test release that also helps exercise the Ubuntu Linux release automation processes...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 6)

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 08:00
This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5In our previous installment of the story of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 came to be, years of hard work arrived at the Red Hat Summit stage and the team shared what it felt like to watch the world react. In our final installment, the team reflects on how Red Hat comes together to support the

From operations to outcomes: The business value of automation

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 08:00
In the early days of automation, the math was simple. If a task took 60 minutes manually and 2 minutes with a script, you saved 58 minutes. Multiply that by 100 times and you had your ROI. Today’s IT leaders are moving beyond these basic stopwatch metrics; they are using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and finding that automation’s real impact is measured in reliability, security, and the ability to accelerate in daily tasks.In dynamic and distributed IT environments, measuring automation success purely by task-level time savings fails to capture the true scope of its impact. For IT le

Friday Five — February 27, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 08:00
SDTimes - Red Hat launches unified platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and appsRed Hat introduced a unified AI platform to move organizations from pilot to production. Red Hat AI Enterprise offers a standard environment for managing models, agents, and apps, featuring high-throughput inference runtimes, bias monitoring, and day-2 capabilities like dynamic resource scaling and unified security across any hardware. Learn more Fierce Network - Red Hat, Nvidia hand enterprises keys to the AI factoryRed Hat launched turnkey Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA offering, pairing NVIDI

sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 05:31
On recent builds of Ubuntu 26.04 when being prompted by sudo for the password, password feedback is now enabled by default to show asterisk (*) characters when inputting your password. Traditionally sudo has not provided password feedback in the name of security to not divulge the length of your password in case anyone is looking/capturing your screen. But upstream sudo-rs has now changed the default behavior in the name of an improved UX...

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