January 3, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Cleaning up the Linux kernel’s ‘Dependency Hell’: This developer is proposing 2,200 commit changes
Last year, Linux’s source code came to a whopping 27.8 million lines of code. It’s only gotten bigger since then. Like any 30-year old software project, Linux has picked up its fair share of cruft over the years. Now, after months of … Continue reading
June 2, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on GitOps: The next step in cloud-native development
What do you get when you combine DevOps management and the Git distributed version control system? Say hello to GitOps. Automation makes software better and more reliable. GitOps takes automation a step further and merges it with deployment. DevOps, in … 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
January 19, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Ethical-source movement opens new open-source organization
Ethical-source licenses, such as the Hippocratic License, have not been widely adopted. True, the Contributor Covenant, the first and most popular open-source project code of conduct has had success — it was adopted by the Linux kernel developers, but actual code ethical-source licenses … Continue reading
September 11, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools?
We’d like an easy way to judge open-source programs. It can be done. But easily? That’s another matter. When it comes to open source, you can’t rely on star power. The “wisdom of the crowd” has inspired all sorts of … Continue reading