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Title: Red Hat Collaborates with SIFive on RISC-V Support, as RHEL 10 Brings
AI Assistant and Post-Quantum Security

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/24/041...

SiFive was one of the first companies to produce a RISC-V chip. This week
they announced a new collaboration with Red Hat "to bring Red Hat Enterprise
Linux support to the rapidly growing RISC-V community" and "prepare Red Hat's
product portfolio for future intersection with RISC-V server hardware from a
diverse set of RISC-V suppliers." Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is available in
developer preview on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform, which they call
"a proven, high performance RISC-V CPU development platform." The SiFive
HiFive Premier P550 provides a proven, high performance RISC-V CPU
development platform. Adding support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, the
latest version of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, enables
developers to create, optimize, and release new applications for the next
generation of enterprise servers and cloud infrastructure on the RISC-V
architecture... SiFive's high performance RISC-V technology is already being
used by large organizations to meet compute-intensive AI and machine learning
workloads in the datacenter... "With the growing demand for RISC-V, we are
pleased to collaborate with SiFive to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
deployments on SiFive HiFive Premier P550," said Ronald Pacheco, senior
director of RHEL product and ecosystem strategy, "to further empower
developers with the power of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform
wherever and however they choose to deploy...." Dave Altavilla, principal
analyst at HotTech Vision And Analysis, said "Native Red Hat Enterprise Linux
support on SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 board offers developers a substantial
enterprise-grade toolchain for RISC-V. "This is a pivotal step forward in
enabling a full-stack ecosystem around open RISC-V hardware. SiFive says the
move will "inspire the next generation of enterprise workloads and AI
applications optimized for RISC-V," while helping their partners "deliver
systems with a meaningfully lower total cost of ownership than incumbent
platforms." "With the growing demand for RISC-V, we are pleased to
collaborate with SiFive to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 deployments on
SiFive HiFive Premier P550..." said Ronald Pacheco, senior director of RHEL
product and ecosystem strategy. . Beta News notes that there's also a new AI-
powered assistant in RHEL 10, so "Instead of spending all day searching for
answers or poking through documentation, admins can simply ask questions
directly from the command line and get real-time help Security is front and
center in this release, too. Red Hat is taking a proactive stance with early
support for post-quantum cryptography. OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS, and OpenSSH now
offer quantum-resistant options, setting the stage for better protection as
threats evolve. There's a new sudo system role to help with privilege
management, and OpenSSH has been bumped to version 9.9. Plus, with new
Sequoia tools for OpenPGP, the door is open for even more robust encryption
strategies. But it's not just about security and AI. Containers are now at
the heart of RHEL 10 thanks to the new "image mode." With this feature,
building and maintaining both the OS and your applications gets a lot more
streamlined...

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