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Organizations running Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Azure can now install and integrate with the SQL IaaS Agent extension (see SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension for Linux - SQL Server on Azure VMs), which enables full licensing flexibility for their SQL deployment. As of today, the extension supports three licensing options. When registering in lightweight mode, you can choose:PAYG (Pay-As-You-Go): Pay per usage. The pay-as-you-go model means that the per-second cost of running the Azure VM includes the cost of the SQL Server license.AHB (Azure Hybrid Benefit):

At Red Hat, our IT and Engineering functions encounter the same challenges and make the same decisions our customers face every day, from infrastructure optimization and application delivery to automating and enhancing the security of our global business. Right now, almost every organization we talk to is navigating the complexities of an AI journey, and we’re in that same boat. As users of our own products—because we love and believe in the technology we build—we want to pull back the curtain on our internal experience. We hope that the lessons we’ve learned through some foresight an

The data is there. The insight isn't.Telecommunications networks generate unprecedented volumes of telemetry. Every authentication attempt, packet flow, device heartbeat, controller update, and service interaction produces telemetry. As networks expand into Wi-Fi offload, 5G standalone, and distributed edge deployments, that volume continues to grow. Yet turning that data into operational intelligence remains one of the industry's hardest challenges.The challenge for operators today is not collection. It is a correlation. Modern networks produce multiple operational signals simultaneously: Net

Security is an important aspect of any digital undertaking, and Kubernetes is no different. We’ve built Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes to form a foundational layer of security across fleets, estates, and platforms, be it public, private, or hybrid clouds. Today we release Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes version 4.10 as part of our ongoing effort to make life easier for Red Hat OpenShift users when it comes to building and enforcing security policies for their clusters.Chief among these updates is the new integration of vulnerability management into OpenShif

Linux 7.0-rc6 Released With The Fixes Still Coming In Heavy  Phoronix

Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 29th, 2026  9to5linux.com

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 13, 2026 (Mar 23 – 29)  Linuxiac

5 Linux Mint extensions that finally made my desktop feel complete  How-To Geek

Ubuntu was my first distro—here's why we went our separate ways  How-To Geek

Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago...

Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026  Phoronix

8 ways to delete a file in Linux—and when to use each  Yahoo Tech

Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware...

The free Linux tool that keeps your terminal sessions alive forever  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning...

Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. Notable with this week's Direct Rendering Manager code changes was introducing per-process buffer object "BO" memory usage query support for user-space...

AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support...

After 6 Years, One of Wayland’s Most Annoying Problems is Finally Getting Fixed  It's FOSS