Category: Linux Updates

Kata Containers united Intel Clear Containers with Hyper’s runV. The goal was to unite virtual machines (VMs) security advantages with the speed and manageability of container technologies. Now with version

The writing was on the wall two years ago. The OpenStack Foundation was going to cover more than just the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Today, that metamorphosis is complete. The Foundation

DevOps, like the name says, is all about making it easier to integrate development and operations. Red Hat‘s take on DevOps, Ansible, is all about making it easier to run

Over the weekend, Linus Torvalds released the next Linux kernel: Linux 5.9. Torvalds said, “OK, so I’ll be honest — I had hoped for quite a bit fewer changes this

If you’ve been hiding under a rock — and who could blame you these days? — you may have missed how totally Kubernetes now dominates container orchestration. One way to

This is pretty simple really. Open source works, and it’s cheap. And when the Main Street economy is going rotten, smart businesses turn to open source. Tidelift, a major commercial

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and other issues, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will finally hold oral arguments in Google v. Oracle on Oct. 7, 2020. This case

I’ve long recommended Nextcloud as a wonderful open-source, private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. I run it myself both on a server in my office and on my TMDHosting remote server. Over

At the Microsoft Build 2020 virtual developers’ conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0 would soon support Linux GUIs and applications. That day is closer now than

A few days ago, Eric S. Raymond (ESR), developer and writer, suggested that we’re nearing the last phase of the desktop wars. The winner? Windows… running on Linux.  ZDNet Recommends

It used to be really hard to find a Linux-powered laptop. You had to turn to small, specialty Linux-friendly PC vendors such as Purism, System76, or ZaReason. Now, Lenovo is releasing

Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source’s founders, said in his seminal work, The Cathedral and the Bazaar,  “Every good work of [open-source] software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”