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EBS 12.2 DB Tier on Oracle Linux 9 and Red Hat Linux 9 Now Certified  Oracle Blogs

I am currently collaborating with my product marketing team on content explaining why organizations—whether they currently use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or not—should standardize on RHEL today. The content is fresh in my mind, and I wanted to share some of it with you in advance, as I believe it contains compelling insights.As you likely know, we launched numerous new features and capabilities this year with RHEL 10, including image mode for RHEL, which enables users to create and manage operating system images for consistent deployment, and the RHEL command-line assistant powered by

General availability (GA) support is now available for Red Hat OpenShift versions 4.18, 4.19, and 4.20 running on VMware vSphere Foundation 9 (VVF9) and VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF9).As organizations continue to modernize their infrastructure, Red Hat remains committed to providing a stable, certified, and high-performance foundation for Kubernetes workloads across diverse environments. This announcement means that all current Red Hat customers deploying OpenShift on vSphere 8/vCenter 8 or VCF 5 can run their workloads on OpenShift clusters deployed on VVF9 or VCF9 as an infrastructure prov

Red Hat Accelerates AI Trust and Security with Chatterbox Labs AcquisitionRed Hat has acquired Chatterbox Labs, a specialist in AI safety and generative AI guardrails. This acquisition integrates model-agnostic security and transparency tools into the Red Hat AI portfolio, helping enterprises deploy trustworthy, production-grade AI across hybrid cloud environments with automated risk metrics and safety testing. Learn more Fierce Network - Red Hat's CTO keeps an 'open' mind on AIRed Hat CTO Chris Wright reaffirms the company's commitment to "default to open" for AI, underscoring how open ecos

At Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta on November 10, 2025, Satish Puranam, Director of Cloud and Developer Experience at Ford, and Sitaram Iyer, VP of Emerging Technologies at CyberArk, outlined how Ford manages over 200 Red Hat OpenShift clusters amid a complex digital transition. Their strategy relies on a single, non-negotiable mandate: everything must be keyless. Image 1: From left, Satish Puranam, Director of Cloud and Developer Experience at Ford, and Sitaram Iyer, VP of Emerging Technologies at CyberArk.To achieve this scale, Ford has abandoned static secrets entirely, impl

IT automation is no longer optional for executives; it is a critical strategy. Organizations have moved beyond simple scripting to focus on speed and impact, using automation to power growth and reduce risk.But a critical gap remains: visibility. How do you, as a business leader, prove the return on investment (ROI) and confidently decide where to invest your next dollar?Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation dashboard and analytics feature is more than an IT report; it's the financial and operational intelligence layer executives need to realize the full value of enterprise automati

The complex risks facing modern IT environments make IT security a strategic imperative, not a back-end detail. Furthering this is cloud computing, which serves as the foundation of the AI economy, meaning that enterprises and nations require greater control, transparency, and assurance over data location and protection. Trust has become not just a technical question, but a matter of national policy, corporate strategy, and even societal resilience.At the same time, the explosion of AI and machine learning (ML) workloads is reshaping infrastructure requirements. But these shifts pose a complex

Radxa Dragon Q6A is an Arm-based single-board PC with Windows and Linux support  Liliputing

The Linux Foundation today published their 2025 Annual Report where they offer a glimpse into the finances of the organization for this year...

Linux Foundation Expects To Break $300M In Revenue This Year  Phoronix

You keep hearing about immutable Linux — here’s the simple explanation  MakeUseOf

Proton VPN Expands CLI App to Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora  WebProNews

I've used Linux for decades, but I'd switch to FreeBSD for this one feature  ZDNET

Newer RISC-V CPUs Vulnerable To Spectre V1 - Linux Mitigation Patches Posted  Phoronix

Spectre V1 mitigations in the Linux kernel are coming for RISC-V with newer RISC-V core designs being vulnerable to Spectre Variant One style attacks...

In addition to the release this week of OpenShot 3.4, released today is a major update to another popular open-source video editing application: Kdenlive. The Kdenlive 25.12 release brings many improvements to help with editing of any year-end / holiday videos...

Firefox Will Ship with an “AI Kill Switch” to Completely Disable all AI Features  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver better performance...