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Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 18:10
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...

Red Hat Named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

Red Hat News - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 08:00
This week we announced that for the second consecutive year, Red Hat has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. This year, Red Hat was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.1 We’re proud of this recognition and believe it is a great validation of Red Hat OpenShift as a comprehensive platform for developing, modernizing and deploying applications at scale, including AI-enabled apps. It provides a consistent experience across hybrid environments -- from the datacenter, to the cloud, to the edge.This announcement comes on the heels of R

Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 04:00
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts...

AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 02:36
AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...

Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 02:15
With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...

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