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ReactOS Lands Improvements For Its USB Stack - Fixing Various Blue Screens of Death

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 09:31
ReactOS as the open-source operating system aiming to be an "open-source Windows" by striving for binary compatibility with Windows programs and device drivers is now slightly better with its USB support...

Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 09:14
Last month I reported on Linux 6.19 looking to enable Microsoft C Extensions support throughout the Linux kernel with setting the -fms-extensions compiler option to allow Microsoft C Extensions when building the kernel. Linus Torvalds today merged that support without objections...

Solving tool overload, one automation step at a time

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:00
Modern IT departments are wrestling with a sprawling array of automation and operations tools, often numbering in the dozens or even hundreds. This complexity makes efficient management and integration a significant obstacle, especially as organizations accelerate their investment in hybrid IT ecosystems, cloud services, and cloud-native application modernization. To help overcome this "tool sprawl" and its impact on productivity, enterprises are working to establish a common environment for orchestrating and managing critical IT processes—a "unified IT automation platform."To understand the

Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.11 and Red Hat build of Trustee 1.0 accelerate confidential computing across the hybrid cloud

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:00
Red Hat is excited to announce the release of Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.11 and Red Hat build of Trustee 1.0, marking a significant milestone in our confidential computing journey. These releases bring production-grade support for confidential containers in Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift and introduce technology preview support for bare metal environments with Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP processors. Organizations can now protect their most sensitive workloads with hardware-based memory encryption and attestation capabilities across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. OpenShift

CIS publishes hardening guidance for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:00
The Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) has officially published guidance for hardening Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.The official publication of the new CIS Benchmark® for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an important development for organizations running traditional virtual machines (VMs) alongside modern containers. OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift that allows existing VM-based workloads to run directly on the platform. This globally recognized, consensus-driven benchmark provides recommendations for creating a security-focused configuration for those env

AI ambitions meet automation reality: The case for a unified automation platform

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:00
IT teams are stuck between wanting to implement AI solutions across their organizations and dealing with the messy reality of increasingly complex infrastructure. Many are attempting to build their own automation solutions, cobbling together a patchwork of tools that, while well-intentioned, can actually make things worse. Red Hat dug into this with SP Global Market Intelligence 451 Research, and their findings point to a simpler alternative: use a unified platform instead of patchworking tools together.The DIY dilemma: More tools, more problemsMost teams are drowning in tools, often ending up

From vision to reality: A 5-step playbook for unified automation and AI

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:00
Twenty-eight percent of businesses surveyed in the recent SP Global Market Intelligence 451 Research report, “The value of a unified automation platform,” responded that their company uses 50-100+ tools that don’t seamlessly integrate. This widespread adoption of disparate solutions, often driven by a "do it yourself" mentality, can lead to overwhelming tool sprawl. The resulting lack of interoperability directly hinders innovation, fragments data insights, and ultimately undermines the effective delivery of AI solutions.As automation and AI become increasingly interdependent, systems mu

Getting Started with OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:00
There are many reasons you might be running a virtual machine (VM) at your organization, and you're probably also using or planning to use containers at the same time. Whether you're looking to migrate away from your current virtualization platform or you're just looking for a unified platform for both VMs and containers, Red Hat OpenShift is a centralized control center for all the services you provide to your users. Here's how to get started with OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift.Install OpenShift and virtualization operatorsTo use OpenShift Virtualization, you must ha

Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 06:30
The Linux kernel's innovative sched_ext code for being able to easily write extensible task schedulers using eBPF programs has some nice enhancements merged for Linux 6.19...

Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With APK Tools v3 For Package Management

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:52
Alpine Linux 3.23 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built around musl libc and BusyBox that has become quite popular for containers and embedded uses...

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