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X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released To Fix Several Regressions

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 19:25
For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series. While most often X.Org Server stable releases these days are driven by shipping new security fixes, the X.Org Server 21.1.21 release is to fix several regressions introduced for various functional issues...

Intel LLM Scaler vLLM Update Supports More Models

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 19:13
Intel software engineers continue to be hard at work on LLM-Scaler as their solution for running vLLM on Intel GPUs in a Docker containerized environment. A new beta release of LLM-Scaler built around vLLM was released overnight with support for running more large language models...

libinput 1.30 Released With Support For Writing Plug-Ins In Lua

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 18:58
Red Hat's leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer released libinput 1.30 today as the newest update to this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland desktops...

Linux Kernel Developers Eye Uses For Extra General Purpose Registers With APX

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 09:23
With Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) on upcoming Intel processors doubling the number of general purpose registers (GPRs) among other advantages, Intel engineers are beginning to think of possible kernel uses for the extra registers...

Beyond the bot: How Red Hat Training makes you a better IT professional

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 08:00
Picture this: You're working late to troubleshoot a production issue and an AI assistant suggests a fix in seconds. Problem solved, right? Not quite. While it seems like it should be easy to use AI assistance, where do you start? What's your prompt? How do you find the issue within the system? AI tools and other large language models are transforming our daily workflows, helping with everything from debugging scripts to generating boilerplate code in seconds, but you still have to know how (and when) to use them.This raises a valid question for many IT practitioners—with so much knowledge at

9 strategic articles defining the open hybrid cloud and AI future

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 08:00
In this October roundup, we cut through the noise to focus on the essential technical blueprints and policy foundations required to succeed. These articles, from key platform updates and critical security integrations to the future of open source legality, represent the core strategic reading for Q4. We highlight how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 streamlines operations, how Red Hat AI 3 and its intelligent control plane transform GPU infrastructure, and how our strategic partnership with NVIDIA simplifies the AI software stack. This is the quarter for planning that prepares your orga

Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 04:09
Alex Gaynor recently announced he is formally stepping down as one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux kernel code with the removal patch now queued for merging in Linux 6.19...

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