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Red Hat has updated the RISC-V Developer Preview

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 08:00
The initial release of the RISC-V Developer Preview, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0, was in May 2025. Today, Red Hat is releasing a software refresh to that Developer Preview to update the code to RHEL 10.2. The hardware platform remains the same (SiFive HiFive Premier P550), but the new release contains more of the upstream code specifically for that platform as well as incremental upstream updates for support of the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Red Hat continues to work to integrate RISC-V support into the upstream community.The addition of the upstream code may enable

Architecting true autonomy with a level 4/5 network

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 08:00
To achieve higher tiers of autonomy as defined by the global telecom industry association TM Forum, service providers must move beyond simple and reactive automation scripts. The goal is to achieve closed-loop, intent-driven operations where networks self-optimize, self-heal, and adapt to high-level business goals with zero human intervention. Enterprise and telecommunication service providers face a clear challenge: they need a robust, scalable, and secure cloud and an AI-native foundation that seamlessly integrates with specialized service orchestration.Red Hat is collaborating with Tata Elx

Friday Five — June 12, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 08:00
The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operationsRed Hat is applying the concept of Business as Code to reshape its own business operations. Serving as "Customer Zero," Red Hat uses the same principles that govern software engineering to transform standard operating procedures into a scalable, compounding enterprise asset that drives real growth. Learn more What's New in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help enable a platform engineering

Ansible Automation Platform 2.7: Visual Execution Environment Builder and Content Discovery Guide

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 08:00
When building and maintaining consistent execution environments, platform engineers and developers routinely lose valuable time identifying dependencies, tracking down content collections scattered across different repos, and wrestling with manual syntax configurations. With the release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, these challenges have become a thing of the past. The execution environment builder and unified content discovery experience within the automation portal work together to dramat

origin-linux - Thurrott.com

Google News - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 05:11
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Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 01:34
Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers is the GFX1156 (GFX 11.5.6) support being prepared too...

Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 00:15
Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default...

Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 23:24
With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.

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