today's leftovers
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New Slack integration with Red Hat Insights [Ed: Red Hat integrates with proprietary spyware]
We are excited to announce an integration between Red Hat Insights and Slack is now available as Service Preview. This new communication channel facilitates initiatives to optimize IT operations (ITOps) and development operations (DevOps) by providing a Chat Operations (ChatOps) component to the Hybrid Cloud Console.
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Linux Kernel Fixes Longstanding Bug in Its Handling of Floppy Disks - Slashdot
This isn't the only such fix in recent years. As a series of articles on Phoronix details, there has been a slow but steady flow of fixes for the kernel's handling of floppy drives since at least kernel 5.17, as The Register mentioned when it came out....
Back in July 2016, SUSE kernel developer Jiri Kosina submitted a patch. The problem arose because this change broke something else and later got reverted, and so the problem hung around. In July last year, he sent in a new patch that fixed it again for the 5.12 kernel, and was later back-ported to 5.10, an LTS version, and again into kernel 5.15 — another an LTS version, and the one you're running today if you're on the current Ubuntu LTS release, or something built from it such as Linux Mint 21....
Now, in December 2022, a new patch for the forthcoming kernel 6.2 fixes a memory leak that dates back to 5.11 or before.
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Frontier Keeps Top Supercomputer Spot, Nvidia’s H100 Debuts on List [Ed: All of them run GNU/Linux]
The 60th edition of the Top500 list, revealed today at SC22 in Dallas, Texas, showcases many of the same systems as the previous installment, with Frontier still out in front as the first official Linpack exascaler, clocking 1.102 exaflops. Installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Frontier – a collaboration of the DOE, HPE and AMD – comprises 74 HPE Cray EX cabinets, housing 9,408 nodes, each equipped with one AMD Milan “Trento” Epyc CPU and four AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs.
Frontier also scored highest on the HPL-MxP benchmark with 7.9 exaflops. A companion benchmark to the Top500, HPL-MxP was formerly known as HPL-AI. The benchmark “seeks to highlight the convergence of HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads based on machine learning and deep learning by solving a system of linear equations using novel, mixed-precision algorithms that exploit modern hardware,” according to the backers.
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Linux Weekly Roundup #213
Welcome to this week's Linux Weekly Roundup. We had a full week in the world of Linux with these releases deepin 20.8, Kali Linux 2022.4, SparkyLinux 2022.12, KaOS 2022.12, MakuluLinux 2022-12-04.