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Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further  GamingOnLinux

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Gustavo Fiuza, IT leader, and Welton Felipe, DevOps engineer, about the remarkable digital transformation at Banco do Brasil. As the second-largest bank in Latin America, they manage a massive scale, serving 87 million customers and processing over 900 million business transactions daily. We learned how they evolved from a siloed community Kubernetes environment to a highly efficient, hybrid multicloud platform powered by Red Hat OpenShift. Scalability through capabilities and hyperautomationA primary tak

For the last 5 years, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has largely been discussed as a research topic. It was a question of if—if the standards are ratified, if the algorithms perform, if the threat is real.In 2025, Red Hat changed the conversation. We stopped asking “if” and started defining “how.” This past year, we moved PQC out of the laboratory and into the operating system (OS). It wasn’t just about upgrading libraries, it was about pushing the entire modern software supply chain. We found that while the foundation is ready, the ecosystem has a long way to go.Here is the story

In a previous article, The strategic choice: Making sense of LLM customization, we explored AI prompting as the first step in adapting large language models (LLMs) to real-world use. Prompting changes how an AI model responds in terms of tone, structure, and conversational behavior without changing what the model knows.That strategy is effective until the model requires specific information it did not encounter during its initial training.At that point, the limitation is no longer conversational—it is architectural.Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps address that limitation. Not by ma

AI Assistant with Oracle Cloud Native Environment 2.3  Oracle Blogs

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds  Adafruit

I switched to this tiling window manager and can't go back to normal desktops  MakeUseOf

CachyOS vs. EdeavorOS: Which spinoff makes Arch Linux easier to use?  ZDNET

The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about 'our eventual march toward death'  PC Gamer

Wasmer 7.0 is out today for this WebAssembly "WASM" run-time for enabling lightweight containers that can run "anywhere" from the desktop to cloud and the edge. The security-minded and extensible WASM runtime provided by Wasmer has already proven to be quite robust while with Wasmer 7.0 has become even more featureful...

Linux Kernel Leaders Draft Linus Succession Plan  findarticles.com

The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week...

Linux after Linus? The kernel community finally drafts a plan for replacing Torvalds  ZDNET

Windows 11 haters get excited as GOG says 'Linux is the next major frontier' for Galaxy client  TweakTown

The live Linux distro for editing disks just got a big update  Yahoo! Tech

The live Linux distro for editing disks just got a big update  How-To Geek

VirtualBox 7.2.6 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.19  9to5Linux

CISA adds critical Microsoft Office, Linux Kernel, and SmarterMail vulnerabilities to KEV catalog  SC Media