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Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSEfficient and reproducible LLM inference: Inside Red Hat’s MLPerf Inference v5.1 submissionsOctober 31, 2025 Naveen Miriyalu, Diane Feddema, Michey Mehta, Keith Valin, Michael Goin, Ashish Kamra, Jean HsiaoAs generative AI (gen AI) workloads become central to enterprise applications, benchmarking their inference performance has never been more critical for understanding the limits of their capabilities. In MLPerf Inference v5.1, Meta’s Llama 3.1-8B was featured for the first time. This post presents Red Hat�

The biggest frustration for modern developers isn't the code; it's the friction. It’s the constant context switching, the endless search for the right internal document, and the risk of building on outdated standards. 50% of developers reported losing 10+ hours a week to non-coding tasks, which can equate to a ~$1.6 million loss per 100 engineers per year. Organizations need to empower developers with a self-service experience that is fast, highly personalized and grounded in the company's unique development standards.That's why we’re excited to announce Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8, the late

As we work toward the stable Linux 6.18 kernel release expected around the end of December, out today is the Linux 6.18-rc5 test kernel...

Linux 6.18-rc5 Released: "Small And Boring"  Phoronix

Lilbits: UGREEN NASync, Maemo Leste, and a Linux laptop with a 300 Hz display and RTX 50 graphics  Liliputing

I finally started using Linux-style package management on Windows, and I should have sooner  XDA

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.4 Is Out with Linux 6.17, COSMIC and LXQt 2.3 Desktops  9to5Linux

MX Linux 25 “Infinity” Is Now Available for Download, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

I finally fixed my Windows desktop clutter with a tiling manager trick from Linux  XDA

4 once-classic Linux distros that don't exist anymore  How-To Geek

4 Linux skills I simply refuse to learn - but you should  XDA

Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel. Being in kbuild-next these patches will likely be submitted for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window next month but remains to be seen if there will be any last minute objections to this change...

Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.5 Released with Support for Debian Trixie  9to5Linux

3 mistakes I made when I first started using Docker  How-To Geek

Unix: OpenSolaris Lives on in This OpenIndiana Fork  The New Stack

I can finally forget about Photoshop on Linux, and it's thanks to this app  XDA

3 games you can play in the Linux terminal  How-To Geek

Queued into the platform-drivers-x86 "for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window is introducing the handling for the "Rapid Charge" USB-C charging mode to the Lenovo IdeaPad laptop driver...

Lenovo IdeaPad Linux Driver Adding Support For Rapid Charge Mode  Phoronix

For anyone dealing with Minix file-systems still for this nearly 40 year old creation, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is expected to bring some fixes to the Minix driver for better handling corrupted file-system images...