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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

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 19, 2026 (May 4 – 10)  Linuxiac

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...

Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes  Phoronix

Parallel bug discovery triggers premature Linux LPE disclosure  iTnews

PamDOORa Linux Backdoor: How Malicious PAM Modules Steal SSH Credentials and Evade Detection in Enterprise Environments  Rescana

I installed Linux on my gaming PC and stopped dual-booting Windows for good  MakeUseOf

Why I just can't love Linux Mint  Yahoo Tech

Why I just can't love Linux Mint  How-To Geek

Official JDownloader site served malware to Windows and Linux users between May 6 and May 7  Security Affairs

Critical New Linux Zero-Day Leaked—What Admins Need To Do Now  Forbes

AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden  Tom's Hardware

How I use the Linux terminal without touching it: My secret to extreme automation  How-To Geek

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...

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

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...

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...

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

PenguinBurner adds automatic undervolting for Nvidia graphics cards on Linux.  GameGPU

Shelly 2.2.4 Arch Linux GUI Package Manager Brings Smarter Fuzzy Search  9to5Linux