I started using social networking in the days of Usenet and online services, such as CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy. I’m still a heavy social-network user. Today, besides the usual, I’m also on the newer, would-be Twitter replacements, including…Read More

Opinion What is Red Hat thinking? It’s not Red Hat’s fault, I blame IBM for the company’s recent Linux code licensing changes and all the misery it unleashed. While I know about Red Hat as well as any outsider can, … Continue reading →

“Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I’m sixty-four.” OK, so we can be certain that John Lennon and Paul McCartney weren’t thinking about Linux when they wrote this classic Beatles song. But, we can also … Continue reading →

It all began with an unassuming blog post, “Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream,” by Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s vice president of Core Platforms. For the non-Hatters among you, Core Platforms is the division in charge of Red Hat Enterprise … Continue reading →

When you think about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the OpenStack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, and its object storage component, Swift is not the first technology to come to mind. But that’s exactly what…Read More

With the right plugins, ChatGPT 4 — the latest version of OpenAI’s language model system — can be very useful for helping you complete a number of tasks. But, caveat emptor, even the most mature plugins are still, at best, … Continue reading →