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KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 17:48
Today's the day! KDE developers have just released Plasma 6.7 as the newest version of this leading open-source desktop environment...

Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 17:45
After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of the in-development Linux 7.2 driver... The frame-buffer device driver for the old Hercules Monochrome ISA graphics card is now removed from the Linux kernel after decades at play...

Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 09:02
In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...

FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 08:56
After some last minute delays pushing the 15.1-RELEASE back by two weeks, FreeBSD 15.1 is now shipping as the newest stable release of this BSD operating system...

What's new with image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8

Red Hat News - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 08:00
Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating ready-to-deploy images for virtual machines (VM), cloud, and bare metal. Image builder for RHEL can be used as a hosted service on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console or as an on-premise service from the RHEL command-line interface and the RHEL web console.What's new for the image builder command-line interface in RHEL 10.2 and 9.8?The image-builde

Navigating the future: Schiphol Airport's journey to shift-left platform engineering

Red Hat News - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 08:00
At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon earlier this year, attendees got a front-row seat to the digital transformation of one of the world's most complex hubs. Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat, to discuss how the airport is utilizing Red Hat OpenShift to prepare for a "hybrid future." Image 1: Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat speaking at the OpenShift Commons Gathe

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 05:22
The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...

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