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May 8, 2024
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BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language’s blessing and its curse

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, operating a General…Read … Continue reading →

May 1, 2024
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Red Hat’s latest enterprise Linux distro has new features to tackle hybrid cloud complexity

Some people update to the latest version of an operating system as soon as it’s available. Others hang on to their old operating system until it’s covered in cobwebs and dust. Red Hat lets you do both. The Linux and … Continue reading →

April 27, 2024
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The hyper-clouds are open source’s friends

Opinion One of the knee-jerk arguments made by companies abandoning their open source roots is that they can’t make money because the bad hyper-cloud companies “steal” their open source services. True, at one time, the hyper-clouds took more than…Read More