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Working towards equality on International Women’s Day

Red Hat News - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 12:00

Every year on March 8, we observe International Women’s Day - a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, as well as a call to continue efforts towards gender equality. This year the organizers have selected "Each for Equal" as the theme, and I’ve been reflecting on what that means to me and what it means at Red Hat. The idea of intersectional equality is something that we’ve been exploring internally and we’ve increased our efforts to be more mindful.

What’s new between the Mass Open Cloud and Red Hat Ceph Storage?

Red Hat News - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 12:00

We at Red Hat are proud to have the opportunity to work with so many interesting and innovative organizations. One such group is the Mass Open Cloud (MOC), which is a non-profit initiative that includes universities, government organizations and businesses, and provides reliable and cost effective storage to support both its public and private clouds built on Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Linux 5.6-rc5 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2020 - 09:23
Linus Torvalds has unveiled the fifth weekly release candidate to the forthcoming Linux 5.6 kernel...

The New Compiler Features Of LLVM 10.0 / Clang 10.0

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 22:26
After running behind schedule from the planned release last month and an extra release candidate being warranted, LLVM 10.0 should be releasing this coming weeks along with its sub-projects -- most notably, the Clang 10.0 C/C++ compiler. Here is a look at the big ticket items of LLVM/Clang 10.0...

AMD Radeon "SISCHED" Support Has Been Retired

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 20:26
Not many AMD Radeon Linux gamers have been using the "sisched" SI machine instruction scheduler in recent times. This non-default scheduler hasn't been well maintained. Additionally, when on the RADV Vulkan driver, using the Valve-backed compiler back-end has been far superior. As such, SISCHED has now been gutted out of Mesa...

MetaInfo Creator - Easily Creating AppStream Metadata For Software

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 20:08
While the cross-distribution AppStream specification standardizes the software component metadata for use by Linux software centers/stores, it turns out many open-source developers aren't interested in or time limited by learning the spec and maintaining the metadata. As such, Matthias Klumpp has now developed the MetaInfo Creator for easily creating this important cross-distro metadata for packages...

KDE Developers Fixed Many Bugs This Week

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 19:51
Not only have GNOME developers been fixing many bugs this week ahead of the 3.36 stable desktop release next week, but coincidentally KDE developers were also going heavy on the bug fixes this week...

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