Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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Red Hat pushes RHEL 9.1 with updated packages and more - Neowin
Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 9.1, its enterprise-oriented Linux distribution. RHEL 9 came out in May 2022 and with the latest update, users get new features and capabilities including improvements to SQL, Red Hat Smart Management with Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Insights, and Workstations. There are also updated packages.
Among the updated packages are PHP 8.1, Ruby 3.1, Node.js 18, Apache HTTP Server 2.4.53, GCC 11.2.1, glibc 2.34, binutils 2.35.2, GDB 10.2, Valgrind 3.19, SystemTap 4.7, Dyninst 12.1.0, elfutils 0.187, PCP 5.3.7, Grafana 7.5.13, GCC Toolset 12, LLVM Toolset 14.0.6, Rust Toolset 1.62, and Go Toolset 1.18.
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Things To Do After Installing Fedora 37
Fedora releases a new version in approximately every 6 months. Each now version is supported with updates for 13 months in total. The distribution is a good place to get the latest stable software and technologies consistently.
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Podman at the edge: Keeping services alive with custom healthcheck actions | Enable Sysadmin
New Podman feature allows you to automate what happens when a container becomes unhealthy, which is crucial for services in remote locations or critical systems.
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Chief engineering officer: A day in the life
If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. It may be a cliche, but I can honestly say I love what I do.
For the past 20+ years, I’ve held a wide variety of executive engineering roles, culminating in my current role as the chief engineering officer at Boomi, the pioneer of cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and now a category-leading global software as a service (SaaS) company.
So, what does a chief engineering officer actually do? The CEngO is accountable for executing on the company’s product vision and delivering measurable value to customers. To do that, we hire, mentor, and lead great teams that build, test, deliver, secure, maintain, and operate the systems that help meet – and ideally exceed – customers’ requirements.
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Hack your job search: 5 tips to amp up your resume
Anyone looking for a new role knows that job-hunting is a job in itself. It takes a lot of time to find and apply for the roles that best align with your current and future goals. Then your patience is tested as you wait and hope to get an initial interview.
Well, stop hoping and start hacking – starting with your resume. As the first thing hiring managers and talent scouts see, your resume can make you stand out or fade into a sea of competitors.
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Benchmarking improved conntrack performance in OvS 3.0.0
Open vSwitch (OvS), an open source tool for creating virtual Layer 2 networks, relies in some use cases on connection tracking. The recent 3.0.0 release of OvS included this patch series to improve multithread scalability, which makes connection tracking more efficient when OvS is run on multiple CPUs. This article shows how to measure the performance of connection tracking with OvS.
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New features in OpenMP 5.1 and OpenMP 5.2
This article discusses recent features implemented in the GCC compiler version 12, the latest stable release. The new features were implemented as a joint effort between Red Hat and CodeSourcery, now a part of Siemens EDA.
OpenMP is an API consisting of compiler directives and library routines that implement high-level parallelism in C and C++ as well as Fortran. OpenMP version 5.1 was released in November 2020, and version 5.2 was released in November 2021. Support for various OpenMP 5.1 features has been added. But GCC 12 does not yet have complete support for OpenMP 5.0, and work is ongoing in GCC 13.
Fedora 37
Fedora 37 is out today. As I always say, it's usually one of the first mainstream distros to incorporate new changes and was one of the earliest distros to support POWER9 at all, so you should care about it because bugs and problems show up there first (if you don't like how the bleeding edge cuts your skin, try AlmaLinux or RockyLinux instead, which aim to occupy the niche old pre-Stream CentOS did). Chief amongst its changes is the new GNOME 43, which really does seem to have much better performance on OpenPOWER than previous releases (a big problem for the last couple) along with revised settings, toolkits and even more libadwaita-all-the-things, which means even fewer apps will respect your GTK theme. This also means Pantheon is no longer supported due to incompatibilities, so I guess I won't bother trying it again (admittedly it was definitely buggy even with GNOME the 42nd).