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After much anticipation, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud is now authorized against the FedRAMP High baseline controls in accordance with the Rev 5 authorization path. This means that customers are now able to use the hosted control plane architecture with ROSA in the AWS Government Community Cloud (GovCloud). The hosted control plane architecture, based on the HyperShift project, streamlines ROSA in AWS GovCloud classic architecture by providing a more effective and efficient use of customer resources, which can lead to improved security postu

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 11th, 2026  9to5Linux

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 2, 2026 (Jan 5- 11)  Linuxiac

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.19-rc5 release, the char/misc pull request was merged earlier today with a notable fix to the Rust Binder driver as well as adding the Intel Nova Lake Point S device ID to the MEI driver...

Linus Torvalds Calls AI-Generated Code ‘Slop’ in Linux Kernel Debate  WebProNews

How to Upgrade Linux Mint 22.2 to Linux Mint 22.3  9to5Linux

Some news that slipped under the radar prior to the holidays... Linutronix as the Linux consulting firm that has led the real-time "PREEMPT_RT" work and more within the Linux kernel -- and Linutronix was acquired by Intel back in 2022 as an independent subsidiary -- is beginning a "new chapter"...

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 tested at 4K Ultra on SteamOS and Windows 11, offering a snapshot of Linux gaming in 2026  Notebookcheck

Budgie 11 Desktop Environment Will Be Ported to Qt 6, Development Kicks Off  9to5Linux

Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New  Linuxiac

loss32 is an operating system that combines Win32 apps with a Linux kernel (and other open source software)  Liliputing

3 hidden Linux features that save me hours every week  MakeUseOf

Increasingly complex RISC-V cores aren't magically immune to the speculative execution / side-channel vulnerabilities that have rattled the x86_64 and ARM64 landscape for years. Following recent work on Spectre V1 handling for RISC-V in the Linux kernel, merged this weekend for Linux 6.19-rc5 is another RISC-V attack vector safeguard...

A new project trying to get off the ground and currently in an "exploratory phase" is GYESME that describes itself as a "design-led" downstream of GNOME with plans ot only fork when needed that is "minimal by default."..

In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding...

Linux Restores Performance on Older PCs and Keeps Them Fast  gHacks Technology News

Linux Restores Performance on Older PCs and Keeps Them Fast  gHacks Technology News

Another Linux desktop environment goes Wayland-only as it prepares to change version after a decade  XDA