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Fedora 42 Beta: A Fresh Install Experience and Numerous New Features

2025-03-18

Fedora 42 Beta is here! This update brings exciting improvements, including a brand-new Wayland-based Anaconda installer with more consistent keyboard control and an improved web UI for partitioning, making the installation process smoother and more intuitive. Fedora Workstation now defaults to the new web UI installer, offering features like a progress indicator, built-in help, and configuration review. KDE Plasma is now a full-fledged edition, with Power system support. Additionally, there's a new Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment, EROFS for live media, and many other enhancements for improved performance and stability. Several older features are being deprecated or removed, including Python 3.8 and python-pytest-runner.

Red Hat's Minimum Viable Open Source AI

2025-02-06

Red Hat defines the minimum criteria for open-source AI as open-source-licensed model weights combined with open-source software components. This article details Red Hat's vision for open-source AI, emphasizing the importance of open licensing for model weights to facilitate community contributions and improvements. They highlight their contributions through projects like InstructLab and the Granite model family, and their commitment to building open-source AI platforms on technologies like Kubernetes and KubeFlow. Their ultimate goal is to democratize and broadly deploy open-source AI across hybrid cloud environments.

Red Hat Hits Key Milestone in Automotive Safety Certification

2025-01-07

Red Hat announced a significant step towards ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification for its Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System (IVOS), achieving functional safety certification for mixed criticality. This milestone validates Red Hat's commitment to providing innovative, native Linux-based functional safety for vehicles. The certification not only verifies the safety of IVOS but also paves the way for greater customer confidence in future automotive deployments.