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Red Hat OpenShift helps customers meet demands faster

Red Hat News - Mon, 08/09/2021 - 12:00

As organizations think about IT modernization, they also have to consider the impact of new processes and technology on their partners, vendors, and customers. This month, we’ll highlight success stories from organizations in banking and telecommunications—dynamic industries that are facing rapidly changing customer demands. Let’s see how Banco Original and HKT built efficient, flexible IT foundations with Red Hat to better meet customer and market needs.

Synopsys Looks To Remove Oldest ARC CPU Support From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 08/09/2021 - 12:00
Synopsys is looking to phase out support for the oldest ARC processors found within the mainline Linux kernel...

Linux 5.14-rc5 Released - "Looking Perfectly Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 08/09/2021 - 05:04
Linus Torvalds just released the fifth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.14 and he's happy with how it's shaping up a few weeks before release...

0 A.D. Alpha 25 Released For This Open-Source RTS Game

Phoronix - Sun, 08/08/2021 - 21:40
0 A.D. as the long in development real-time strategy game developed by Wildfire Games is out with its twenty-fifth alpha release...

Thunderbird 91 Is Flying Soon As First Major Mail Client Update In A Year

Phoronix - Sun, 08/08/2021 - 19:30
Thunderbird 91.0 is approaching release as an annual feature release to this open-source, cross-platform mail client and RSS reader. Given the current release is Thunderbird 78 from last July, there is a lot in store for this "2021" update...

Arm SMCCC TRNG Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sun, 08/08/2021 - 18:43
The Linux kernel already supports making use of Arm's True Random Number Generator (TRNG) SMCCC interface within the random seed code while for the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle an "arm_smccc_trng" driver is being added and will allow exposing the entropy to user-space...

Intel Has A Huge Batch Of New Graphics Driver Code For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sun, 08/08/2021 - 12:00
Intel engineers on Friday submitted a big batch of kernel graphics driver improvements to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window...

DRM Lease Protocol Support Merged For Wayland For VR Headsets

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 20:51
The months-long effort for adding DRM lease support to Wayland via a new protocol has now been merged into Wayland Protocols as a new staging addition. The "drm_lease_v1" is principally motivated for improving the virtual reality head-mounted dispkay support under Wayland...

Latte Dock 0.10 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 18:30
It's been two years already since Latte Dock 0.9 was released while finally Latte Dock 0.10 is ready to officially meet the world this weekend...

KDE Kicks Off August With Many Bug Fixes To Benefit Steam Deck & More

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 17:53
The first week of August saw many fixes land in the KDE camp as they prepare for their software to be used on more third-party products, with Steam Deck being just the latest notable product leveraging KDE...

AMD Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 08/07/2021 - 15:00
Last week's AMDGPU pull request to DRM-Next for Linux 5.15 added support for the "Cyan Skillfish" APU and other early work while an additional pull request was submitted on Friday...

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