# Linux Action News 261

URL: /show/linux-action-news/261/
> Our thoughts on IBM slicing up more of Red Hat, what stands out in Nextcloud Hub 3, and a few essential fixes finally landing in the Linux kernel.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 261
- Date: 2022-10-06
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 00:19:26
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/82dba103-bfae-4fc6-a718-247feb4038d9.mp3



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### Episode Links

  * [IBM Takes Over Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings](https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-10-04-IBM-Redefines-Hybrid-Cloud-Application-and-Data-Storage-Adding-Red-Hat-Storage-to-IBM-Offerings "IBM Takes Over Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings") — IBM announced today it will add Red Hat storage product roadmaps and Red Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit, bringing consistent application and data storage across on-premises infrastructure and cloud.
  * [Why Whitehurst is stepping away from IBM](https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-whitehurst-is-stepping-away-from-ibm/ "Why Whitehurst is stepping away from IBM")
  * [IBM Does A “Quasi-Acquisition” Of Red Hat Storage](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Red-Hat-Storage "IBM Does A “Quasi-Acquisition” Of Red Hat Storage") — Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is also being absorbed into IBM Spectrum Fusion. IBM is assuming the Premier Sponsorship role of the Ceph Foundation from Red Hat.
  * [Announcing Nextcloud Hub 3](https://nextcloud.com/blog/announcing-nextcloud-hub-3-brand-new-design-and-photos-2-0-with-editor-and-ai/ "Announcing Nextcloud Hub 3") — Our design always followed three principles. Focus on content, ease of use, and great accessibility. For this refresh, we added a fourth: make it your own.
  * [Introducing NVK](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html "Introducing NVK") — NVK is a new open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa. 
  * [Debian’s firmware vote results](https://lwn.net/Articles/910065 "Debian’s firmware vote results") — The winning option allows the installer image to include firmware necessary to use the system.
  * [Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12](https://lore.kernel.org/all/YzwooNdMECzuI5+h@intel.com/ "Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12") — After looking at some logs we do end up with potentially bogus panel power sequencing delays, which may harm the LCD panel.
  * [Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display - Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-iGPU-Avoid-Linux-5.19.12 "Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display - Phoronix")
  * [Linux 6.0 Released With Many Intel & AMD Driver Additions](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.0-Released "Linux 6.0 Released With Many Intel & AMD Driver Additions") — Linus Torvalds just promoted Linux 6.0 to stable on-schedule and thereby now ushering in the Linux 6.1 merge window to officially get underway tomorrow.
  * [Some 6.0 development statistics](https://lwn.net/Articles/909625/ "Some 6.0 development statistics") — A total of 2,034 developers contributed to the 6.0 release; of those, 236 made their first contribution during this cycle. The total number of developers is just short of the record (2,086) set for 5.19, but the number of first-time contributors is the lowest seen since the 5.6 release (216) in 2020.
  * [Linux 6.0 Supporting New Intel/AMD Hardware](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-60-features/2 "Linux 6.0 Supporting New Intel/AMD Hardware")
  * [Btrfs Brings Some Great Performance Improvements With Linux 6.1](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1-Btrfs "Btrfs Brings Some Great Performance Improvements With Linux 6.1")
  * [The Initial Rust Infrastructure Has Been Merged Into Linux 6.1](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Is-Merged-Linux-6.1 "The Initial Rust Infrastructure Has Been Merged Into Linux 6.1") — As a follow-up to the Rust infrastructure pull request for Linux 6.1, Linus Torvalds pulled the initial Rust code into the mainline Linux kernel this evening.