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Linux Kernel Developers Eye Uses For Extra General Purpose Registers With APX

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 09:23
With Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) on upcoming Intel processors doubling the number of general purpose registers (GPRs) among other advantages, Intel engineers are beginning to think of possible kernel uses for the extra registers...

Beyond the bot: How Red Hat Training makes you a better IT professional

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 08:00
Picture this: You're working late to troubleshoot a production issue and an AI assistant suggests a fix in seconds. Problem solved, right? Not quite. While it seems like it should be easy to use AI assistance, where do you start? What's your prompt? How do you find the issue within the system? AI tools and other large language models are transforming our daily workflows, helping with everything from debugging scripts to generating boilerplate code in seconds, but you still have to know how (and when) to use them.This raises a valid question for many IT practitioners—with so much knowledge at

9 strategic articles defining the open hybrid cloud and AI future

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 08:00
In this October roundup, we cut through the noise to focus on the essential technical blueprints and policy foundations required to succeed. These articles, from key platform updates and critical security integrations to the future of open source legality, represent the core strategic reading for Q4. We highlight how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 streamlines operations, how Red Hat AI 3 and its intelligent control plane transform GPU infrastructure, and how our strategic partnership with NVIDIA simplifies the AI software stack. This is the quarter for planning that prepares your orga

Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 04:09
Alex Gaynor recently announced he is formally stepping down as one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux kernel code with the removal patch now queued for merging in Linux 6.19...

AlmaLinux 10.1 Released - Complete With Btrfs Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 02:35
Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 from two weeks ago, AlmaLinux 10.1 is now available in GA form for this community-oriented RHEL10 downstream. Making AlmaLinux 10.1 all the more interesting is the project's decision to promote Btrfs file-system support...

AMD SDCIAE Working Its Way Into The Linux 6.19 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 01:36
A year and a half after the Linux kernel patches were first posted, SDCIAE that is found with AMD Zen 5 server processors is set to finally be supported by the mainline kernel come Linux 6.19...

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