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Dell Technologies modernizes the developer experience with Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces

Red Hat News - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 08:00
At Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta on November 10, 2025, Joseph Kanjirathinkal, DevOps manager at Dell Technologies, and James Walton, principal solution architect at Red Hat, shared Dell Technologies' journey to modernize their developer experience by adopting Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces. Image 1: Joseph Kanjirathinkal sharing how OpenShift Dev Spaces are made available to developers in Dell ISG/CSGOpenShift Dev Spaces: A cloud development environmentTo understand why Dell began this transition, it’s important to understand the technology itself. Red Hat OpenShift Dev Sp

New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 05:09
Last year Valve contractor Timur Kristóf managed to improve the AMDGPU driver enough for old GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs that with Linux 6.19 AMDGPU is now the default for those GPUs with better performance, RADV Vulkan out-of-the-box, and other benefits. He isn't done though improving the old GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPU support on this modern AMDGPU kernel driver - a new patch series posted today brings some power management fixes...

OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security & Performance Win For Dealing With Containers

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 03:44
A new feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is adding an OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE flag for the open_tree() system call. This OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE option can provide a nice performance win with added security benefits if you are dealing a lot with containerized workloads on Linux...

Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 00:18
In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path for enjoying Firefox Nightly since then and now Mozilla engineers are providing similar RPM builds of Firefox nightly too...

CAKE_MQ Slated For Linux 7.0 To Adapt SCH_CAKE For Today's Multi-Core World

Phoronix - Mon, 01/19/2026 - 23:55
Queued into the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window next month is cake_mq as a multi-queue aware variant of the sch_cake network scheduler. The intent with cake_mq is to better scale the network traffic rate shaper across multiple CPU cores...

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