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Red Hat’s hybrid cloud portfolio wins in TrustRadius Best Of 2023 Awards across multiple products

Red Hat News - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 08:00
At Red Hat, we value customer feedback in helping us understand how we’re doing as we fuel innovation across the open hybrid cloud. This is why we began working with TrustRadius, a leading technology decisioning platform that helps buyers more confidently make decisions with comprehensive, vetted product information and customer-generated content. TrustRadius holds an annual Best Of Awards to recognize technology vendors that exhibit exceptional strengths across feature sets, customer relationships and value. We’re pleased to announce that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Op

PCI-SIG Announces "CopprLink" PCI Express Cable Name

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 03:58
From SC23 going on in Denver, the PCI-SIG team sent out a news release that they have announced the naming for their next-generation PCI Express cabling... CopprLink...

AMD Talking Up Open-Source & Open Standards Ahead Of "Advancing AI" Event

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 03:30
On 14 December is the previously-announced launch of 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" and Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors via a webcast from NASDAQ that Intel is promoting as the "AI Everywhere" event. AMD meanwhile recently announced an "Advancing AI" event for the week prior. While details on the AMD Advancing AI event are light, it's all the more interesting now with AMD teasing open standards and open-source around the event...

Intel Publishes "20231114" CPU Microcode For New Security Advisory & Functional Issues

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 02:00
Intel has released new CPU microcode this morning for mitigating a new CPU security vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00950). This new microcode drop also fixes various functional issues on recent generations of Intel processors...

Fwupd 1.9.8 Released With Firmware Updating For New DP Converters, Wacom Cintiq Pro

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 01:04
Just two weeks since Fwupd 1.9.7 was released, Fwupd 1.9.8 is now available for this open-source solution that facilities firmware updating on Linux systems for system firmware as well as various devices/peripherals...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 00:30
The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release and in turn also marking the Netplan 1.0 release...

Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound

Phoronix - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 21:32
It was just last week that Microsoft got OpenGL 4.3 implemented over Direct3D 12 for use in cases where Windows lacks a native OpenGL driver or for use under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLg). After implementing a few more GL extensions atop D3D12, Microsoft has now got OpenGL 4.4 in Mesa running on Direct3D...

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