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500 servers patched in four hours: Learn how we helped customers with automation, security and containerization

Red Hat News - Mon, 10/04/2021 - 12:00

We just wrapped up AnsibleFest 2021, which included customer spotlight sessions showcasing some of the ways Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help organizations scale and increase collaboration. 

Linux 5.15-rc4 Released - The Kernel Is Looking "Pretty Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 10/04/2021 - 05:56
Linus Torvalds has declared Linux 5.15-rc4 as the latest weekly release candidate of the maturing Linux 5.15 codebase...

Linux 5.16 Aims For Better USB Low-Latency Audio Playback

Phoronix - Sun, 10/03/2021 - 20:57
The Linux kernel is trying again to enhance the low-latency playback mode of its USB audio driver...

Intel Sends Out 11th Revision Of Linux Kernel Patches For AMX

Phoronix - Sun, 10/03/2021 - 20:26
While Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors with Advanced Matrix Extensions are set for a Q2'22 ramp in production, one of the key new features that has yet to be properly plumbed in the mainline Linux kernel is for supporting AMX...

Initial Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The Fairphone 4

Phoronix - Sun, 10/03/2021 - 17:48
Announced this week was the Fairphone 4 as the latest iteration of this smartphone focused on being "sustainable and ethical" and now the initial patches have been sent out for providing mainline Linux kernel support...

Intel Compute-Runtime 21.39.21127 Brings Broader Alder Lake S Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/03/2021 - 17:30
Intel's newest weekly Compute-Runtime update providing open-source OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their graphics hardware is now reader with broader support for upcoming Alder Lake S processors...

OpenBLAS 0.3.18 Released With LoongArch64 Support, More Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 10/03/2021 - 03:02
OpenBLAS 0.3.18 is out today as the latest feature update to this widely-used, open-source BLAS implementation...

Intel oneAPI 2021.4 Released With More Optimizations, Continues LLVM Adoption

Phoronix - Sun, 10/03/2021 - 01:54
Intel on Friday formally released their oneAPI Toolkits 2021.4 release as the latest collection of their various software components for a multi-vendor, multi-architecture software platform across CPUs and XPUs (GPUs / accelerators)...

helloSystem 0.6 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD

Phoronix - Sun, 10/03/2021 - 01:34
Version 0.6 of helloSystem is now available as the FreeBSD-based open-source operating system project taking design cues from Apple's macOS...

Facebook Is Aiming To Make Compilers Faster Using Machine Learning With CompilerGym

Phoronix - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 17:53
Facebook this week announced the open-sourcing of CompilerGym as their effort to improve compiler performance by leveraging machine learning to tackle optimization work...

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