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Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10
Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10

Not only is Canonical exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 builds for targeting Intel and AMD processors with AVX/AVX2 support, but Red Hat has publicly confirmed now they are exploring a possible x86-64-v3 requirement for next year's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

3 January 2024 - x86-64-v3 Requirement? - 61 Comments
OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives
OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives

Following Red Hat's decision to limit access to the RHEL source code to their customers, various RHEL-based Linux distributions were caught in a tailspin. CIQ (Rocky Linux), SUSE, and Oracle decided to form the Open Enterprise Linux association (OpenELA) to collaborate around the development of distributions with compatibility against Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ensuring open and free access to EL source code. Today they are announcing initial source available for their EL8 and EL9 packages.

2 November 2023 - RHEL 8 + RHEL 9 - 56 Comments
Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers
Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers

Red Hat continues hiring for additional help on their open-source Linux graphics driver team that does stellar work for enabling open-source graphics hardware support in cases like NVIDIA hardware with Nouveau, optimizing performance of existing drivers, and making other infrastructure improvements.

11 October 2023 - Open-Source GPU Drivers - 15 Comments
Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader
Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader

GRUB2 and Linux bootloaders in general don't get too much attention these days as for the most part they "just work" well and most Linux distributions prefer to keep their GRUB menu hidden if at all possible. But at the same time it's an often overlooked area and not an area where there is an eager and glamorous open-source community behind it. However, it looks like Red Hat at least may have some new ideas brewing and they are hiring now to improve the Linux bootloader experience.

10 August 2023 - GRUB2 + Shim - 64 Comments
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL

With Red Hat now restricting access to the RHEL source repositories, AlmaLinux and other downstreams that have long provided "community" rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 1:1 compatibility to upstream RHEL have been left sorting out what to do.

13 July 2023 - No 1:1 Compatibility - 121 Comments
Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

Following Red Hat's decision earlier this month to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code and that leading to downstreams scrambling to figure out their paths forward to avoid tracking CentOS Stream instead and still aiming to offer 1:1 RHEL compatibility without being restricted by the Red Hat Customer Portal, the Rocky Linux distribution today expressed a few of the ideas they are considering.

29 June 2023 - Creative Ways - 123 Comments
Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes
Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

Upsetting many in the open-source community was Red Hat's announcement last week that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and publicly would be limited to the CentOS Stream sources. In turn this causes problems for free-of-cost derivatives like AlmaLinux moving forward. Red Hat today issued another blog post trying to address some of the criticism.

26 June 2023 - "Red Hat's Commitment To Open-Source" - 206 Comments
Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance
Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance

Red Hat engineers are working to deal with Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) being too costly for mitigating Spectre V2 and Retbleed on older Intel Xeon Scalable processors. A new patch has been floated to disable IBRS when idle and is working out well at least for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 while isn't clear yet if it will be accepted into the upstream kernel.

19 June 2023 - Disable IBRS When Idle - 3 Comments
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement

Red Hat has decided they will be doing less work on desktop applications and will stop shipping LibreOffice as part of a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release (presumably RHEL10). This is also limiting Red Hat's engagement in working on LibreOffice packaging for Fedora while the hope is that the Flatpak'ed LibreOffice will fill the void.

2 June 2023 - LibreOffice Losing Focus - 98 Comments
Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Is Shaping Up Nicely
Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Is Shaping Up Nicely

Red Hat engineers have been working on a new web-based user-interface for Fedora's installer for more than on year now and it's been worked into good shape while still not at feature parity to the Anaconda installer with its GTK interface. Martin Kolman presented at FOSDEM last weekend on Fedora's new installer UI to offer insight into their motives for making it web-based and what work remains.

10 February 2023 - Fedora Web UI Installer - 35 Comments
Red Hat's Display/HDR Hackfest Scheduled For April
Red Hat's Display/HDR Hackfest Scheduled For April

As mentioned a few weeks back, Red Hat has been working to arrange a developer "hackfest" to further work out plans and development around HDR display support on the Linux desktop. They are aiming to bring together graphics driver developers, desktop developers, and other Linux stakeholders -- including possibly the likes of Valve -- to work out planning of high dynamic range monitor support over the next year or two for the Linux desktop. That Red Hat HDR hackfest has now been organized to happen in late April.

3 February 2023 - High Dynamic Range - 10 Comments
RPM Lands Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Feature Levels
RPM Lands Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Feature Levels

The RPM package manager code has added support for the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels that allow for newer baseline targets than conventional x86_64. This support in RPM allows for installing RPMs built for newer feature levels on capable hardware.

2 February 2023 - RPM x86_64 Feature Levels - 25 Comments
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Caps Off A Busy 2022
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Caps Off A Busy 2022

Established two years ago was the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for a group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and other hyperscalers in making optional changes to CentOS Stream to better suit the Linux distribution to their internal needs.

10 January 2023 - CentOS Hyperscalers - Add A Comment
Hyperscalers Have Been Making CentOS 9 Stream More Attractive With New Features
Hyperscalers Have Been Making CentOS 9 Stream More Attractive With New Features

While many were upset by CentOS Linux 8 going premature EOL at the end of last year, for those that made the move to CentOS Stream there continues to be a love of moment in part by the recently establisher Hyperscale SIG. For CentOS Stream 9, the big hyperscalers have been working on some interesting additions/backporting to the platform.

10 January 2022 - CentOS Hyperscale SIG - 14 Comments
Red Hat Is Hiring Another Linux Developer To Work On GPU Hardware Enablement

Red Hat already employs numerous open-source graphics driver developers from DRM subsystem maintainer David Airlie to numerous others on his team working on areas from Mesa OpenCL support to Heterogeneous Memory Management to other user and kernel-space improvements for open-source Linux graphics. Red Hat has now put out a call to hire yet another experienced Linux GPU driver developer.

12 October 2021 - Linux Graphics Driver Developer - 19 Comments
CentOS Kmods SIG Working On exFAT, WireGuard Additions

Created this year has been the CentOS Kmods special interest group for dealing with deprecated device support and out-of-tree modules. This Kmods SIG has begun crafting their initial set of extra kernel modules for use on CentOS.

5 October 2021 - CentOS Kmods SIG - 10 Comments
Red Hat Looking To Bolster EPEL

Red Hat is said to be establishing a "small team" to work on activities around EPEL, the "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux" that is popular with RHEL/CentOS users for easily fetching extra packages not available via RHEL proper.

3 September 2021 - Extra Packages - 23 Comments
CentOS Hyperscale Workstation Sees Experimental OS Builds, More Changes Coming

One of the exciting initiatives taking place recently within the CentOS camp has been the CentOS Hyperscale special interest group that is backed by engineers from Twitter and Facebook along with other organizations. They've been making more progress on offering their hyperscaler-focused packages/updates and even onto publishing a CentOS Hyperscale Workstation operating system image for testing.

30 June 2021 - CentOS Hyperscale - 7 Comments
CentOS Linux 8 2105 Released As RHEL 8.4 Equivalent

While CentOS Linux 8 is being discontinued at the end of the year in favor of Red Hat focusing those resources on CentOS Stream, CentOS Linux 8 2105 was released today as the newest version that is now based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 sources.

3 June 2021 - CentOS 8 - 19 Comments

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