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How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 11:40
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You need a 1GB test file to benchmark your disk, fill a partition to a specific threshold, or simulate a

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Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 08:22
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...

Virtualization at full speed ahead of Red Hat Summit 2026

Red Hat News - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 08:00
If you're starting to rethink how you run virtualization workloads at your organization, you're not alone. Rising licensing costs, the pressure to apply AI, and a need to integrate services are inspiring organizations to look at new virtualization options.Here are five different organizations across a variety of industries including telecommunications, defense, and education, that are using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to turn disruption into a strategic advantage.To hear more stories like this, check out the OpenShift Virtualization sessions taking place at Red Hat Summit 2026 in a few we

Why developer portals matter more in the age of AI agents

Red Hat News - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 08:00
There’s a growing narrative in the platform engineering community that internal developer portals (IDPs) are "dead." That AI models are so good now, developers don’t need a portal to find things, scaffold projects, or understand their environment. That agents like Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot have made the "alt-tab to a portal" workflow obsolete.I get the appeal of that argument. It’s clean, it’s provocative, and it contains a kernel of truth. But it also misses something fundamental about why developer portals exist in the first place—and why the agentic era makes them more im

D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 07:43
D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...

Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 04:03
Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...

PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 03:53
The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June...

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