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Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy

Phoronix - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 09:10
Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux...

Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option

Phoronix - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 08:41
Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux...

Supercharge RHEL troubleshooting with agentic AI: Introducing goose

Red Hat News - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 08:00
AI is rapidly transforming how system administrators and developers interact with their environments. In 2025, we introduced the command line assistant, an optional tool available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that allows users to ask questions and get natural language troubleshooting guidance right from the terminal.We're now announcing the next step in our AI-driven systems management journey—the availability of the goose AI agent in the RHEL extensions repository for RHEL 9.8 and RHEL 10.2. A project of the Agentic AI Foundation, goose is a flexible, open source AI agent that can be

Distributed AI inference: What telecom service provider leaders should know

Red Hat News - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 08:00
Every telecommunications service provider is operationalizing AI right now. Use cases include customer care-bots, network operation co-pilots, and managed AI-as-a-service (AIaaS) for external enterprise customers and others. The uncomfortable part is correlation of use case with business case, where the key factor is the cost of the AI accelerator, whether that's a graphics processing unit (GPU), tensor processing unit (TPU), or neural processing unit (NPU). Cost per inference decides whether these AI accelerators improve profit margins or erode them; to keep costs down, the AI model you sele

Can't patch fast enough? Zero trust as a last line of defense

Red Hat News - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 08:00
The velocity at which new features are added and applications evolve directly drives up architectural complexity. This relentless pace isn't just driven by the desire for new features; it is increasingly forced by the constant discovery of new vulnerabilities. Patching a single critical dependency can trigger a cascade of required updates and unexpected architectural changes as each product and solution comes with a myriad of implementation options and various features to enable or disable. Tailoring this complexity to your specific environment makes it challenging to guarantee every component

Linux 7.2-rc1 Released: "Things Look Reasonably Normal" While Landing AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, AMD ISP4 & CAS

Phoronix - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 04:04
As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it's off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10...

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