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As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, we have seen a shift in the role of network automation. It's no longer a "nice to have" and instead is a critical support for AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and hybrid cloud environments. For network operations (NetOps) teams, there has been a transition from managing individual devices to orchestrating entire service delivery frameworks.The momentum we've seen this past quarter highlights that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is the standard trusted execution layer for this transformation. Organizations are moving away from isolated team

Linux updates were painfully slow until I switched one setting  MakeUseOf

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd's environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables...

Study says Microsoft split could hurt Linux firms  CNET

Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...

NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support  Phoronix

NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)  GamingOnLinux

Linux gaming levels up as CachyOS beats Windows 11 in head-to-head tests  TechSpot

G28 Retro Handheld Game Console - 4.3" IPS Screen, 128GB Card, Dual Joysticks, Linux  ruhrkanal.news

Huawei HarmonyOS update runs Linux software on desktop PCs using Converged Development Engine  Technetbook

Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...

Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless  XDA

Arch Linux April 2026 ISO Ships With Kernel 6.19 and Systemd 260  Linuxiac

Arch Linux’s April 2026 ISO Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 6.19 and Archinstall 4.1  9to5Linux

The Linux backup tool nobody talks about—and why it beats every official sync app  How-To Geek

HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...

HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library  phoronix.com

One - month Mutation Baffles Linux Kernel Guru: "AI Junk" Last Month, Reliable AI Bug Reports This Month?  eu.36kr.com

April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running  phoronix.com

What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual...