Practical Technology

for practical people.

January 16, 2024
by
Comments Off on OpenTofu 1.6 General Availability: Open Source Infrastructure as Code

OpenTofu 1.6 General Availability: Open Source Infrastructure as Code

The open source Terraform fork with the silly name, OpenTofu, has arrived. Well, that didn’t take long. After HashiCorp dumped its open source license for the Business Source License (BSL) for its flagship program, infrastructure as code (IaC) tool,…Read More

January 16, 2024
by
Comments Off on OpenTofu 1.7 General Availability: Open Source Infrastructure-as-Code

OpenTofu 1.7 General Availability: Open Source Infrastructure-as-Code

The open source Terraform fork with the silly name, OpenTofu, has arrived. Well, that didn’t take long. After HashiCorp dumped its open source license for the Business Source License (BSL) for its flagship program, infrastructure as code (IaC) tool,…Read More

January 12, 2024
by
Comments Off on Tribute: Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024

Tribute: Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024

The great computer scientist Niklaus Wirth has died, but his work will endure forever. I come not to mourn Wirth, a computer science titan who passed away on Jan. 1 at 89, but to praise him. While the public won’t … Continue reading →

January 12, 2024
by
Comments Off on Your pacemaker should be running open source software

Your pacemaker should be running open source software

Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy’s (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doctorate by Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her work for open source and software freedom. There was only one problem. Her…Read More