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Fedora-based Bazzite Linux 44, Red Hat Flaunting Slop, and More
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Bazzite Linux 44 gets even more fixes for September 6th | GamingOnLinux
The Bazzite Linux team continue powering through getting lots of updates since the recent major Bazzite 44 release for handhelds. Seems we may see weekly updates for a while, after the last update there were still a number of issues to sort.
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Red Hat Official ☛ Why faster coding isn't making delivery any faster [Ed: Does IBM Red Hat admit that its mindless promotion of LLM slop (plagiarism) can significantly reduce quality and speed?]
Using AI makes us feel like we're moving faster because code is generated almost instantly. Yet moments later, we're staring at a 2,000-line diff, trying to understand why the agent refactored unrelated files, whether the new retry logic is safe, or which seemingly harmless change introduced a regression.
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Red Hat ☛ Understanding W8A8 INT8 LLM quantization: Half the size, better performance, same accuracy [Ed: LLMs are not about accuracy, they are designed to be the opposite of that and favour plagiarism]
Large language models are expensive to serve. A model like Llama 3.1 8B in Bfloat16 (BF16) precision occupies roughly 15 GB of GPU memory. In BF16, each of the 8 billion parameters takes 2 bytes to store, which adds up to roughly 15 GB for the weights—and that's not all. The GPU needs memory for the key-value (KV) cache to store context for active requests, alongside intermediate tensor outputs (activations, as we call them) generated during inference.
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Red Hat ☛ Red Hat Developer Hub software template authoring with rhdh-templates
If you are a platform engineer or developer building Red Bait Developer Hub software templates, you know the friction of wrestling with Nunjucks syntax, guessing
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Red Hat Official ☛ Introducing the external secrets management console plug-in
Last year, Red Hat made the external secrets operator generally available (GA), rounding out the trio of operators for managing credentials on OpenShift.