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IBM and Red Hat: Nearly two decades of Linux innovation across computing architectures

Red Hat News - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 12:00

In the decades since its inception, Linux has become synonymous with collaboration, both at a technical and organizational standpoint. This community work, from independent contributors, end users and IT vendors, has helped Linux adapt and embrace change, rather than fight it. A powerful example of this collaboration was the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 2.1 in 2002, heralding the march of Linux across the enterprise world.

Linux 5.9 Dropping Soft Scrollback Support From FB + VGA Console Code

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 08:46
Linus Torvalds has decided to do away with the "soft scrollback" functionality found in the FBCON and VGACON kernel code as a sign of the times...

AMD Shows First Glimpse Of Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Card

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 05:44
Ahead of the RDNA 2 / Navi 2 reveal on October 28, AMD has shown off the first official render of a Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card...

GNOME DMA-BUF Screencasting Now Limited To Intel Drivers Due To Bugs Elsewhere

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 05:31
Prior to tagging Mutter 3.38 for this week's GNOME 3.38 desktop release there was a last-minute change around the DMA-BUF screencasting feature...

"Microsoft Wants To Create A Complete Virtualization Stack With Linux"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 03:28
Microsoft engineers are sending out new kernel patches in looking to expand the Linux support around the Microsoft Hypervisor (Hyper-V)...

The future of virtual conferences, service mesh, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 02:00

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Radeon GPU Profiler 1.8 Released With Redesigned Developer Panel

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 01:41
AMD today released a new version of their Radeon GPU Profiler utility for Linux and Windows systems for profiling games/applications on Radeon graphics hardware under both Linux and Windows...

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