It was just another day for Luca Bongiorni, a security advisor for Bentley Systems. He’d just spun up an Ubuntu Linux 18.04 instance on the Microsoft Azure cloud using a
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Top open source, tech-smart, board-ready women executives
Technology, in general, and open source, in specific, is often seen as a boy’s club. There’s a lot of truth to that. In 2019, out of the 2,765 Morgan Stanley
Securing your open-source software supply chain with Tidelift catalogs
Do you think about what routines, sub-programs, libraries, and routines go into the software you use? You should. The Solarwinds security disaster, which will be causing trouble from now until
AlmaLinux, the CentOS Linux replacement, beta is out
After 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 of
The Open Infrastructure Foundation announces its first board
For over a decade, the OpenStack Foundation oversaw the open-source OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Over time, the OpenStack umbrella covered more open-source projects. So, in October 2020, the Foundation transformed
AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch
When Elastic, makers of the open-source search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, went after Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) by changing its license from the open-source Apache 2.0-license ALv2) to the non-open-source
Corellium ports Linux to Apple M1 Mac mini
I was sure that Linux would eventually run on Apple’s ARM-based M1 CPU. After all, Linux has been ported to essentially every processor on the planet. Even without Apple’s co-operation,
Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development teams
When Red Hat announced it was switching up CentOS Linux from a stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone to a rolling Linux distribution, which would become the next minor
Ethical-source movement opens new open-source organization
Ethical-source licenses, such as the Hippocratic License, have not been widely adopted. True, the Contributor Covenant, the first and most popular open-source project code of conduct has had success —
The Linux Foundation offers a suite of open-source management classes
There are many open-source and Linux technology and programming classes. The Linux Foundation offers many such top-notch open-source and Linux classes. But classes on how to manage open-source developers and
What must be done to bring Linux to the Apple M1 chip
Everyone loves Apple’s new M1 chip Macs. Even Linux’s creator Linus Torvalds has said “I’d absolutely love to have one if it just ran Linux.” And, recently, Hector Martin, a
CloudLinux readies CentOS Linux replacement: AlmaLinux
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
Microsoft Defender for Linux now has endpoint detection and response security
After months in the making, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux server now has endpoint detection and response (EDR) abilities. I know. It’s still startling but Microsoft now produces Linux
Red Hat OpenShift supports both Windows and Linux containers
Containers are largely a Linux technology. But Microsoft, besides supporting Linux containers on Windows 10 and Azure, also has its own Windows-based containers. So it is that many Microsoft-oriented companies
Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team announced that David Recordon, one of OpenId and oAuth‘s developers, has been named the White House Director of Technology. Recordon most recently was the VP