February 20, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat OpenStack lives on in a new release
SUSE may have given up on the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, but Red Hat hasn’t. The Raleigh, N.C.-based company has just released its latest OpenStack distribution, Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOP) 16. Red Hat OpenStack lives on in a new release More>
February 18, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat finds enterprise users are adopting open-source software at a rapid pace
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
February 18, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on The Linux Foundation identifies most important open-source software components and their problems
Red Hat recently reported open-source software now dominates the enterprise. Actually, it does more than that. Another older study found open-source software makes up 80% to 90% of all software. You may not know that, because many of these programs are built on … Continue reading
October 7, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Linus Torvalds isn’t worried about Microsoft taking over Linux
Every time I write a story about Microsoft and Linux, I can guarantee I’ll be buried under such comments as “Microsoft is buying control of Linux!” or “Microsoft is just practicing it old embrace, extend, and extinguish tactics to destroy … Continue reading
October 4, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Fedora drops 32-bit Linux
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
March 13, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Shuah Khan becomes the third Linux Foundation Fellow
Programmers love to write code. But what about debugging it, writing test suites, and tracking down security bugs? Not so much. To help address these problems in Linux, Shuah Khan, a noted Linux kernel developer, is becoming — after Linus … Continue reading