Almost all smartphones lock you into expensive, pretty prisons. They look great, but you can’t repair them, and they watch your every move. But now there’s the Fairphone 3, which
Category: Linux Updates
Linux Updates
Abby Kearns takes over as Puppet CTO
After more than a decade as the head of the popular open-source, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud Cloud Foundry, Abby Kearns is now the CTO of top DevOps program Puppet. Kearns recently left
Fedora 32 released with Lenovo support
Fedora isn’t a Linux for everyone. But, for developers who want the most from their Linux desktop, you can’t beat it. This latest edition, like its predecessors, brings together the
Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability
Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu Linux, is doing better than ever according to founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Indeed, Canonical is now “self-sustaining.” That is, “We’re now well past
Red Hat takes on the hybrid cloud with its latest OpenShift Kubernetes distro
Top Cloud Providers Top cloud providers in 2020: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, hybrid, SaaS players The cloud computing race in 2020 will have a definite multi-cloud spin. Here’s
Micron speeds up SSDs with open-source database storage engine
Want to get the most from your database? Then you probably already use Database Storage Engines. Now, Micron Technology, a leading storage company, has announced the first open-source, heterogeneous-memory storage
Ubuntu 20.04 arrives with Linux 5.4 kernel and WireGuard VPN
As expected, Canonical has released the newest version of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, Ubuntu 20.04. This long-term-support (LTS) version is more than just the latest version of one of the most
NetApp to make stateful applications easier to do in Kubernetes
must read What is Kubernetes? How orchestration redefines the data center In a little over four years’ time, the project born from Google’s internal container management efforts has upended the
Here comes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
Red Hat is kicking rump and taking names now that it’s part of IBM. Red Hat revenue was up 18% in the last quarter and up almost 50% over last year.
Here comes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
Red Hat is kicking rump and taking names now that it’s part of IBM. Red Hat revenue was up 18% in the last quarter and up almost 50% over last year.
Open-source firmware turns CPAP machines into coronavirus ventilators
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we are woefully short of ventilators that can give the most gravely ill a chance for life. There are many efforts afoot to build more ventilators. Now,
Verizon introduces open-source, big data coronavirus search engine
As we struggle to get a grip on exactly how COVID-19 makes us ill and what we can do about it, researchers have created over 50,000 articles. That’s a lot
Linux Foundation backs security-oriented seL4 microkernel operating system
First thing’s first: Yes, the Linux Foundation is working with Data61 — the digital specialist arm for Australia’s national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) — to push forward the
Cloud Foundry sees top leadership change
For over a decade, Abby Kearns has been the face of the popular open-source, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud, Cloud Foundry. First as the project manager for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and then
Mapzen open-source mapping project revived under the Urban Computing Foundation
The Mapzen open-source mapping platform has a hard history. On the one hand, Mapzen is used by over 70,000 developers and it’s the backbone of such mapping services as OpenStreetMap,
