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IDC paper highlights the business value of Red Hat software certifications

Red Hat News - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 12:00

Software development can be a key differentiator for organizations seeking faster and more agile business models, but it’s no secret that the development, sale, and support of software can be costly. With this in mind, Red Hat offers independent software vendors (ISVs) and technology partners a clear path to certifying their solutions. Red Hat’s certification process enables partners to grow their business, access new markets and develop deeper relationships with customers to help generate long-term results.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 08:42
We still don't have our hands on the GeForce RTX 3080 yet and remains to be seen when we will get our hands on RTX 30 series hardware for Linux testing, but at least there's a pretty good rhythm for how the NVIDIA Linux support will play out...

AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 03:13
It turns out the Radeon RX 6000 series will have AV1 hardware video decode capabilities...

Red Hat Has Been Working On New NVFS File-System

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 02:55
Yet another new file-system being worked on for the Linux/open-source world is NVFS and has been spearheaded by a Red Hat engineer...

Unvanquished Game, Assets Are Now Fully Open-Source Compliant

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 00:40
Unvanquished was one of the most promising open-source game projects nearly a decade ago with its "Daemon" engine but since abandoning their monthly alpha release regiment and their beta/stable releases never materializing either, it's been relatively quiet the past few years. But their developers have been persisting and today they are announcing that following a three-year cleanup the game is fully free/open-source including all assets under applicable licenses...

OpenJDK 15 Reaches GA With Garbage Collector Promotions, Tossing Out Solaris + SPARC

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 00:07
OpenJDK 15 is out today as the latest general availability release for this open-source Java implementation...

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