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Red Hat customers gain efficiencies with automation and agile approaches

Red Hat News - Mon, 05/17/2021 - 12:00

We are proud to hear of the innovative ways our customers use Red Hat solutions to improve business processes and present better products to their customers and communities. In addition to the Red Hat Innovation Awards winners we announced as part of the Red Hat Summit 2021, see how four customers have found more efficient ways to work using Red Hat products and services in this month’s customer success stories highlights. 

Linux 5.13-rc2 Released With A VGA Text Mode Fix

Phoronix - Mon, 05/17/2021 - 08:08
The second weekly release candidate is now available for Linux 5.13...

Dav1d 0.9 Released With AVX2-Tuned 10b/12b Decode For Big Speed Boost

Phoronix - Mon, 05/17/2021 - 01:21
As written about a few days ago, the open-source Dav1d AV1 decoder has added AVX2 Assembly for higher bit depth decoding. Dav1d 0.9 is now available with this optimization and more...

AMD SEV Code Gets Reorganized In Linux 5.13 Ahead Of SEV-SNP Landing

Phoronix - Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:58
While past the Linux 5.13 merge window, some reorganizing/cleaning to the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) code was merged to mainline today to make it easier for when the SEV-SNP and other feature code is submitted for Linux 5.14 or later...

KDE Still Isn't For Client-Side Decorations But Has Been Selectively Using Some D.W.D.

Phoronix - Sun, 05/16/2021 - 17:51
With word this week that KDE's Dolphin file manager has adopted a hamburger menu that has re-ignited the discussion once more over client versus server-side decorations for the KDE desktop...

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