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Red Hat Apex Partners: what’s new, and where are we going in 2021?

Red Hat News - Mon, 03/22/2021 - 12:00

It’s been more than two years since Red Hat launched the Apex Partner Program and since that time we have seen bookings growth and increased accreditations among participating partners. As the name suggests, our Apex partners bring a higher level of expertise in application development and integration, hybrid cloud infrastructure and management platforms across the ecosystem.

FreeCAD 0.19 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD Software

Phoronix - Mon, 03/22/2021 - 12:00
FreeCAD 0.19 was released this weekend as the newest major feature release for this respected open-source CAD solution / parametric 3D modeling solution...

Linux 5.12-rc4 Released - The 5.12 Kernel Is Still Looking Good

Phoronix - Mon, 03/22/2021 - 06:41
The fourth weekly release candidate to Linux 5.12 is now available for testing ahead of its anticipated stable release next month...

OpenRazer 3.0 Released For Supporting Many More Razer Peripherals Under Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 03/22/2021 - 01:41
While Razer has talked up Linux support in the past, so far they have not officially offered Linux support for their range of wares popular with gamers. However, thanks to the open-source community there has been the likes of OpenRazer offering up support for the company's keyboards, mice, and other peripherals under Linux thanks to reverse engineering. Today marks the release of OpenRazer 3.0 for furthering this effort...

Months After Being Deprecated, Linux Ready To Say Goodbye To WiMAX

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 21:15
In addition to the legacy IDE driver code ready to go from the mainline Linux kernel, receiving its final death sentence now is also the WiMAX support...

Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 20:47
It's been three years that Retpolines (return trampolines) have been around as part of the Spectre defenses on Linux and kernel developers in particular are still working to better optimize different areas of their code to deal with the performance overhead incurred...

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's Very Busy Week With An Entire Rebuild, Latest KDE Packages

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 20:07
For users of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, it's been a very active past week...

Patches Proposed So Microsoft Debuggers Can Deal With GCC-Built MinGW Executables

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 18:13
Patches have been proposed for the GCC compiler to ultimately allow MinGW Windows executables to be debugged with Microsoft's debuggers...

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