As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...
At Red Hat Summit 2026, the conversation centered on a critical reality: AI agents are arriving in enterprise IT faster than most environments can govern them. Across the keynotes and more than 50 technical sessions, Red Hat made its position clear—organizations don't need to start over for the AI era. Instead, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is acting as the trusted, deterministic execution layer for autonomous AI.Here are the 4 defining themes and real-world breakthroughs from the event.1. Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 as the execution layer for the agentic eraBy 2027, the vast major
Insights from a customer roundtable at Red Hat Summit 2026Platform engineering and operations leaders from across industries—including airlines, utilities, financial services, higher education, and government—gathered for a candid conversation about agentic AI at Red Hat Summit 2026. We wanted to find out what's actually working, where the risks lie, and how teams are finding value today.From platform management to AI collaborationThe question underpinning every conversation at our roundtable was a variant of this: What does it look like when a platform stops being something you manage and
Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76...
GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript, is out with its newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow...
Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn't been the option of using it for the root file-system on new Fedora installations. Finally with Fedora 45 that may change...
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