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The industrial world runs on timing and consistency. In manufacturing and operations, a predictable outcome isn't a nice-to-have; it's the core promise of the industrial system itself. Whether you're managing complex motion control or critical process loops, network communication must be reliable and predictable. Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is the essential evolution of Ethernet that brings determinism and a guaranteed delivery schedule to a standard open industrial network.But here's the reality check for information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) leaders: TSN is great fo

Generative AI demands infrastructure that’s not only powerful but repeatable, auditable, and scalable. From chat bots and content generation to intelligent automation agents, organizations are deploying AI at scale. But with this innovation comes complexity. In short, deploying generative AI isn’t just about models, it’s about managing the infrastructure and operations behind them reliably. The Red Hat Certified Collection, amazon.ai, addresses this problem by bringing infrastructure-as-code principles to AI and operational monitoring.The problem: Manual AI management doesn’t scaleEve

The Red Hat 2025 North America Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Awards recognize public sector partners for their continued efforts in developing innovative solutions using Red Hat technologies to meet the U.S. government’s needs and improve mission critical outcomes. In today’s dynamic digital landscape, collaboration between industry and government is essential for developing innovative, customized solutions that enable agencies to better serve citizens. This year’s Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Award winners exemplify that collaboration in action, turning strategic vision into measurab

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December...

At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released  Phoronix

Released a short time ago was systemd 259-rc1 as the first test release toward this next version of this dominant Linux init system and service manager...

Finnix 251 Linux Distro for Sysadmins Introduces Official OCI Container Images  9to5Linux

Git 2.52 is out today as the newest feature release of this distributed revision control system and in working toward Git 3.0 that will hopefully release by the end of 2026...

AlmaLinux OS 9.7 Is Out as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7  9to5Linux

Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact  The New Stack

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, load balancers, Amazon DCV, Amazon Linux 2023, and more (November 17, 2025)  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Mesa 25.3.0 released with lots of Linux graphics driver improvements  GamingOnLinux

Valve's Proton brings better DirectX 12 support and FSR4 to Linux  How-To Geek

Penguin Solutions Boosts Fault-Tolerant Computing with Oracle Linux Integration  Insider Monkey

Penguin Solutions Boosts Fault-Tolerant Computing with Oracle Linux Integration  Yahoo Finance

SUSE engineer Lucas Mülling is leading an effort to work on implementing SSH within the Zig programming language, a popular language for robust, optimal, and reusable software...

SUSE Developer Working To Reimplement SSH Using The Zig Programming Language  Phoronix

NetworkManager 1.54.2 Adds Support for Configuring the HSR Protocol Version  9to5Linux

OpenVPN 2.6.15 Re-Adds Support for Explicitly Configuring the Broadcast Address  9to5Linux