The Linux desktop may never be as popular as the Windows desktop, but more top-tier computer OEMs are now offering a broad assortment of Linux desktops. In the latest move,
Category: Linux Updates
Linux Updates
A million students and counting have learned Linux
Six years ago, The Linux Foundation launched its first free online class: Introduction to Linux. Today, The Linux Foundation, announced its free Introduction to Linux training course on the edX Massive
What Cassandra users think of their NoSQL DBMS
With the NoSQL market expected to be worth $22 Billion by 2026, big business is paying Apache Cassandra a lot of attention. While MongoDB dominates NoSQL, 52.71% to Cassandra’s 9.73%,
Linux Foundation launches new entry-level IT certification
If you’re Linus Torvalds, you don’t need a certification to get a job. People know who you are. But most of us trying to get a start in technology need
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth makes peace with Ubuntu Linux community
Of the three major Linux companies, Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE, two have separate community Linux distros: Red Hat with Fedora, and SUSE with openSUSE. While in both cases these
20 years of Linux on Big Iron
Let’s take the way-back machine to March 1991. Back then Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and one-time editor-in-chief of InfoWorld, predicted “the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996.”
Mirantis releases its first take on the Lens Kubernetes IDE
The next version of Lens, the open-source Kubernetes IDE, will be out shortly. This release, Lens 3.6, will be the first since OpenStack cloud and Kubernetes power Mirantis took over
Red Hat and IBM announce a hybrid-cloud software marketplace
Sick of looking for programs to run on your Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud? Want to run AI/ML, Big Data, or just a conventional DBMS on Kubernetes without sweating the installation and
Lenovo releases first Fedora Linux ThinkPad laptop
For years, ThinkPads, first from IBM and then from Lenovo, were Linux users’ top laptop pick. Then, in 2008 Lenovo turned its back on desktop Linux. Lenovo has seen the
AWS introduces Bottlerocket: A Rust language-oriented Linux for containers
Earlier this year, Linus Torvalds approved of adding drivers and other components in Rust to Linux. Last week, at the virtual Linux Plumbers Conference, developers gave serious thought to using
How to judge open-source projects
Plenty of people have put together systems to collect, judge, and evaluate open-source projects, including information about a project’s popularity, reliability, and activity. But they all have flaws. Take that
Nextcloud incorporates Kaspersky antivirus security
These days we almost all use personal Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds at work, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. But, if privacy and security are at the top of
Commit 1 million: The history of the Linux kernel
On August 25th, 1991, Finnish grad student Linus Torvalds told the Minix Usenet newsgroup that he was starting work on his new free operating system which would be “just a
Enough with the Linux security FUD
Like all operating systems, Linux isn’t perfectly secure. Nothing is. As security guru, Bruce Schneier said, “Security is a process, not a product.” It’s just that, generally speaking, Linux is
Linux turns 29: The biggest events in its history so far
2019’s tech, security, and authentication trends We take a look at the top tech, cybersecurity, and authentication trends as revealed today by the Duo Security’s 2019 Trusted Access Report, which