Fleet Commander is now declared "production ready" by the Red Hat developers working on this software project for easing the process of deploying and managing Fedora/Red Hat desktops across a large number of systems.

The next update to RHEL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, is expected to include a Wayland technical preview within its GNOME Shell session.

Red Hat's oVirt virtualization management platform is out with a new development release.

Red Hat has quietly been working on PipeWire for years that is like the "video equivalent of PulseAudio" while now it's ready to make its initial debut in Fedora 27 and the project now has an official website.

Hans de Goede's latest assignment at Red Hat is working to improve Linux laptop battery life.

For those waiting on the CentOS rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, it's now available.

Red Hat is looking for another senior software engineer to join their Desktop Graphics Team where in particular they will be working on the open-source Radeon support, including Vulkan and compute.

Yesterday at Phoronix we were the first to broadcast about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 deprecating Btrfs and since then it's become more clear what their "next-gen" Linux storage focus has become.

Red Hat has (again) deprecated the Btrfs file-system from their Red Hat Enterprise Linux product, but this time it appears it may be for good.

Red Hat is out today with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 release.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 is now available as a beta for the next installment of RHEL7.

Red Hat is looking to hire another developer to specialize in advancing the open-source graphics stack.

For those running on RHEL6, Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9.

More than two months after RHEL 7.3 was released and a month past the updated CentOS, the Scientific Linux folks are working to release their updated Enterprise Linux distribution later this month.

It's been a year since CentOS Linux 7 last saw a new image released but that's now changed today with putting out CentOS 7 1611 to succeed last year's 1511 images.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (RHEL 7.3) is shipping today.

Red Hat developers have announced the release of efibootmgr 13, their open-source project for modifying the Intel EFI boot manager.

Red Hat is looking to hire two individuals for testing of laptops and tracking down any shortcomings in their support as it pertains to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

While AMD has said they will open-source their Vulkan driver currently part of AMDGPU-PRO, months later they have yet to do so nor has there been any communication when that open-sourcing might happen. In the mean time, David Airlie at Red Hat has begun work on "RADV", an unofficial Radeon Vulkan driver.

Hans de Goede of Red Hat has been tasked with making improvements to Linux's switchable graphics support, namely for laptops with integrated and discrete GPUs.

Buried within the notes for today's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 release are a few interesting notes.

For those relying upon RHEL6 and not RHEL7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 is now available.

Red Hat has announced they are making Red Hat Enterprise Linux and associating offerings available to developers at no-cost.

SystemTap, a DTrace-like means of dynamically profiling Linux with a scripting language and tool, is out with version 3.0.

Red Hat has become the first open-source focused company to have two billion dollars in annual revenue.

It isn't often we hear much these days about Plymouth, the modern Linux boot splash screen that's now almost universally used by Linux distributions, given that the project is rather mature. However, for those utilizing modern HiDPI displays, the latest Plymouth code should work out better.

Red Hat's Adam Jackson today announced the release of X.Org Server 1.18.1 as the first point release building off last year's X.Org Server 1.18 debut.

While it took a while past the November release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, available this weekend is Scientific Linux 7.2.

Building off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 that was released back in November, coming next week will finally be the Scientific Linux 7.2 release.

With this week having looked at the state of Ubuntu 15.10 and Fedora 23 on a brand new Intel Xeon E3 v5 "Skylake" system, next up for testing was CentOS 7 1511.