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New observability features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Red Hat News - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 08:00
The latest updates to Red Hat OpenShift bring significant enhancements to monitoring and troubleshooting directly within OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift observability has evolved into a highly integrated ecosystem that combines metrics, logs, traces, and network telemetry into a single experience. It removes the tool sprawl typically associated with Kubernetes, replacing fragmented dashboards with a centralized, hardened, and supported platform.Cluster observability operator 1.4The cluster observability operator (COO) acts as a "meta-operator". Its primary job is to deploy and manage independent

AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 05:07
A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface "DPTCi" driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices. Though don't get too excited right away as the driver was assembled in part by AI that is already causing a bit of a ruckus on the LKML due to lack of disclosure...

Google Chrome Moving To A Two-Week Release Cycle

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 04:52
Google announced today that beginning later this year they are moving the Chrome web browser from its four week release cycle down to a two week release cadence...

Intel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake's Xe3 B390

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 01:30
Over the past month I have been running a lot of Linux benchmarks on Intel's new Panther Lake using the Core Ultra X7 358H and its Xe3-based Arc B390 Graphics. The Arc B390 on Linux has been quite interesting with its OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance compared to prior generations of Intel graphics plus the Intel Compute Runtime / OpenCL performance too. In today's article are more benchmarks of the latter in looking at the Intel Rendering Toolkit and OpenVINO AI performance on the Xe3 B390 Panther Lake graphics compared to prior Lunar Lake and Meteor Lake.

GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 00:19
There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor...

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