February 18, 2020
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Enterprise customers believe open-source software is great. In a just-released Red Hat 2020 enterprise user report, the Linux and cloud folks from Raleigh found 95% of almost 1,000 enterprise IT leaders thought open-source is “strategically important to their organization’s overall enterprise infrastructure … Continue reading
October 4, 2019
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Seven years ago, Linus Torvalds dropped “ancient-386-CPUs” support from the Linux kernel, dismissing it with “good riddance.” While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux’s mainstream. Gradually, distributions such as Arch Linux dumped it, as well. Then, Canonical decided to boot 32-bit … Continue reading
October 2, 2019
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Yes, IBM bought Red Hat, but as Chris Wright, Red Hat‘s CTO, recently told me, “We’re fundamentally a separate entity from IBM.” Want proof of that? In NYC, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, Ubuntu Linux‘s parent company, and Ross Mauri, general manager … Continue reading
February 12, 2019
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There’s an old, wise IT statement: “Never fix what’s broken.” Of course, there’s an equally true tech management thought, which goes: “You snooze, you lose.” So, trying to satisfy both the tortoises and hares of IT, Red Hat‘s newest version of … Continue reading
February 5, 2019
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These days we often package our new programs in containers, and we then manage those containers with Kubernetes. That’s great as far as it goes, but if you’re a programmer, it’s still missing a vital part: An integrated development environment (IDE). … Continue reading
January 14, 2019
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With the growth of the cloud and containers, DevOps has become increasingly important. Old-school sysadmin methods and means simply aren’t up to managing server instances that can spin up at a moment’s notice when needed. Red Hat knows that better than many companies, so … Continue reading