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Converseen for Batch Processing Images on Linux  It's FOSS

Red Hat recognizes partners with the 2021 Red Hat Australia and New Zealand Partner Awards. These partners are instrumental in helping customers in Australia and New Zealand, including Tech Data A/NZ, Deloitte, Integral Technology Solutions, Advent One and several others.

One key challenge enterprises face is launching into cloud adoption without first establishing an overarching cloud strategy. This leads to the so-called Frankencloud–a patchwork of platforms that is hard to manage and increases the difficulty of bringing information together to get a broad view of the business and customers. Learn more about Red Hat’s partner ecosystem and how we work with our GSI partners to help organizations build effective cloud environments.

Microsoft's Internal Linux Distribution "CBL-Mariner" Continues Maturing  Phoronix

Besides Azure Cloud Switch as a Linux platform created by Microsoft, the Windows company has also been developing CBL-Mariner (Common Base Linux) as their own internal albeit public and open-source Linux distribution...

Following the two-week long merge window, the first release candidate to Linux 5.14 is now available with all the shiny new features to be found in this next kernel release...

Linux kernel sheds IDE support, but driver-dominated 5.14 rc1 still grows  The Register

Chrome OS 91 broke Linux, here’s the workaround  Chrome Unboxed

Back in May we wrote about China launching an alternative to Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. This global open-source program hosted by the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences is running "Summer 2021" for encouraging university-aged students regardless of gender or nationality to get involved in open-source development...

Last week marked a X.Org Server 21.1 development snapshot being released. While that snapshot noted there will "most likely be no proper release", there is discussion now over creating such a X.Org-Server-Without-XWayland release...

The Haiku open-source operating system building off the inspiration and work of BeOS is continuing strong over the summer months...

The "memfd_secret" system call is being added to the Linux 5.14 kernel to provide the ability to create memory areas that are visible only in the context of the owning process and these "secret" memory regions are not mapped by other processes or the kernel page tables...

The CentOS Board of Directors has approved the formation of the CentOS Kmods special interest group for expanding the selection of kernel modules available to this distribution...

The VirtIO-IOMMU driver now works on x86/x86_64 hardware with the Linux 5.14 kernel...

Linux Mint 20.2 is now available  Ghacks Technology News

If you're traveling by boat down your local waterway or sailing around the world, you can bring great navigation software with you and maintain your commitment to open source software. OpenCPN is free and open source software developed by sailors. It serves as the primary navigation interface for vessels with full-time helm-visible navigational suites. The software is written in C and released under a GPLv2 license.

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Linux Mint 20.2 is now available  Ghacks Technology News

Intel Posts Newest Advanced Matrix Extensions Patches For Linux (AMX Patches v7)  Phoronix

For over one year now since Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) was first disclosed as a future feature with Xeon "Sapphire Rapids", Intel engineers have been posting AMX patches for enabling the new support for changes needed from the kernel to code compiler stacks. The Linux kernel support for AMX hasn't yet landed but has now been revised its seventh time for public review...

Linux Mint 20.2 has been released and is now available for free download  brytfmonline.com