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Qt Creator 19 IDE Released With Minimap, Built-In MCP Server For AI / LLMs

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 20:12
Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE)...

Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 18:26
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and other device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. Paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Fwupd has made firmware updating a breeze on Linux for an increasing number of devices...

Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 18:14
Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded...

Enable intelligent insights with Red Hat Satellite MCP Server

Red Hat News - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 08:00
Red Hat Satellite manages Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems at scale across the cloud and on-premises. Last year, a model context protocol (MCP) server for Red Hat Satellite was released as a Technology Preview feature to enable more intelligent and automated management of Satellite and RHEL systems through your favourite large language model (LLM).LLMs make it possible to perform highly automated and sophisticated tasks. An LLM can enable automatic, unsupervised problem solving, simulating the acts of perception, learning, and reasoning. Tools such as MCPs make it possible for LLMs to o

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