Category: Linux Updates

We use Canonical‘s Ubuntu Linux on desktops, servers, and clouds all the time. But Ubuntu also finds its way into narrower purposes. For example, Ubuntu Core Linux is often used

I use Kubernetes. You use Kubernetes. We all use Kubernetes to manage containers. What you couldn’t do, though, is use Kubernetes to manage virtual machines (VM)s as well. That was

Patching database software is often a real pain-in-the-rump. The reason? Easy. When you need to patch one, it almost always requires a reboot. That takes time, sometimes a lot of

Getting ready to upgrade your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? You can get a look at the future with the just-released RHEL 8.5 Beta. Best of all, you’ll no longer

Well, that’s different. Most of the time when a business realizes a process helps them they embrace it. But, despite 69% of financial technology leaders saying open-source software and methodology

Thirty years ago, give or take, Linus Torvalds created Linux. At the Linux Foundation‘s Open Source Summit last week, Torvalds talked with his good friend and VMware VP and chief open-source officer Dirk

When you think of Fedora, Red Hat‘s community Linux distribution, you think of Linux’s cutting edge. Everything is the newest version. If some of that isn’t ready for prime time

If you’re just a GNOME user, there’s a lot to like about the latest version of this popular Linux desktop interface. But, if you’re a GNOME developer, there’s more to

At the Open Source Summit in Seattle, The Linux Foundation, and edX, the leading massive open online course (MOOC) provider released the 2021 Open Source Jobs Report. In this survey of 200 technical

What does one of the top retail credit-card endpoint companies, Square, have to do with open-source software? The answer, as it is for most businesses, is everything. So, it only

Long in the making, Oracle has finally released JDK (Java Development Kit) 17. This is the first long-term support (LTS) release to see the light of day since JDK 11

When Red Hat, CentOS‘s Linux parent company, announced it was “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead

Once upon a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, developers didn’t think about licenses. They assumed open-source licenses didn’t matter. Oh, how wrong they were as one open-source lawsuit

For all Docker’s container technology popularity, Docker, the company, has its problems. First, Docker had trouble finding a working business plan. Then, Docker ran short of funds. In late 2019,

When Red Hat, CentOS‘s Linux parent company, announced it was “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream,” which is essentially a