January 5, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5: Great Chromebook, great tablet
I’m usually not keen on either ARM-powered Chromebooks or dual Chromebooks/tablets. But, the latest Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 has me reconsidering. This hybrid laptop is a 2-in-1 Chromebook and tablet. The lightweight 13.3-inch tablet/display is completely detachable. Its screen is one of … Continue reading
January 4, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on The open office floor plan: rethinking an awful idea
Some friends and I were talking about the new Google building at 2000 North Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View, Calif. Truth be told, we’re not impressed. As one person said, it looks like a sagging tent city covered in dragon … Continue reading
December 9, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on It’s time to move off CentOS 8, here are your best choices.
The end of CentOS 8 Linux has been coming for awhile now, and the day is finally here. On December 31, 2021, Red Hat‘s CentOS Linux 8 will reach End Of Life (EOL). Since that falls right in the heart of the holiday season, … Continue reading
November 8, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Last of original SCO v IBM Linux lawsuit settled
Well, that took long enough! But, what’s this? The lawsuit still lingers on in one last case from the company that bought SCO’s Unix operating systems. While at the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Napa, California, I was bemused to find that … Continue reading
January 20, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development team
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 RHEL update, many CentOS users were upset. Now, to appease some of those users, Red Hat is introducing no-cost … Continue reading
January 20, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Elastic changes open-source license to monetize cloud-service use
Elastic is tackling Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) with its new license change. When Elastic, makers of the open-source search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana, announced it was moving both programs’ source code from the Apache 2.0-license to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and … Continue reading