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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:

Linux 5.16 Released With Many Intel & AMD Additions, Memory Folios, AMX, FUTEX2

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 07:23
As expected the Linux 5.16 kernel has been promoted to stable...

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