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Red Hat Named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

Red Hat News - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 08:00
This week we announced that for the second consecutive year, Red Hat has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. This year, Red Hat was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.1 We’re proud of this recognition and believe it is a great validation of Red Hat OpenShift as a comprehensive platform for developing, modernizing and deploying applications at scale, including AI-enabled apps. It provides a consistent experience across hybrid environments -- from the datacenter, to the cloud, to the edge.This announcement comes on the heels of R

Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 04:00
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts...

AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 02:36
AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...

Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 02:15
With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...

KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 01:42
Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor...

AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 23:00
AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the upcoming Linux 6.12 LTS cycle...

EXT4 Extsize Hints Being Worked On As Step Toward Non-Torn/Atomic Writes

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 21:00
Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of "request for comments" patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-system. This is important work in ultimately striving toward handling non-torn / atomic writes within the EXT4 file-system...

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