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Announcing the winners of the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards

Red Hat News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 08:00
At Red Hat, we’ve always known that "open" is a team sport. While our technology provides the foundation, our partners act as the ultimate force multipliers—building, integrating, and delivering the solutions that solve the world’s most complex business challenges. Today, we are thrilled to celebrate that spirit of collaboration by announcing the winners of the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards. These awards recognize partners who have demonstrated exceptional ingenuity using Red Hat’s open source portfolio to drive measurable, transformative results for our joint customers. Fro

Announcing the 2026 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year, Firas Benbelgacem

Red Hat News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 08:00
Each year during Red Hat Summit, we recognize Red Hat Certified Professionals who make a difference in their organizations by demonstrating enthusiasm, commitment and dedication to their role and industry. We’re proud to announce that Firas Benbelgacem, Telco Cloud CaaS Engineer at Orange, has been named the 2026 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.Firas has worked diligently to earn a variety of Red Hat Certifications, including up to Red Hat Certified Architect in both Enterprise Linux and OpenShift. Earning these certifications highlights Firas’s commitment to open source technol

Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 05:45
Linus Torvalds just issued the third weekly test candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel with around a third of the patches being for the networking subsystem...

Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 05/10/2026 - 19:13
Following a presentation at last week's Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) was presented, Jens Axboe was motivated to pursue some new Linux kernel optimizations for greater per-core I/O performance. This lead IO_uring developer and Linux block maintainer has managed to achieve around a 60% increase to the per-core I/O performance with his latest patches...

Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages

Phoronix - Sun, 05/10/2026 - 18:40
With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news...

OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 05/10/2026 - 18:28
The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21 chipsets' xHCI controllers...

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