Column You probably knew Google’s ChromeOS is a Linux distribution. But, now, it’s running on more than Linux under the hood. I didn’t, and I’ve been covering Chrome OS like paint since the day it arrived. Today, your newer Chromebook … Continue reading →

Not so long ago, in the 1990s, online users had their choice of a variety of search engines. They included Excite, WebCrawler, Lycos, and my favorite at the time, AltaVista. Then, along came Google and PageRank. With PageRank, Google rates … Continue reading →

Linux kernel’s extended BPF (eBPF) has become a stand-out open-source tool for monitoring and manipulating cloud-based Linux containers at a deep level and one of eBPF’s biggest fans is Amazon Web Services (AWS). “At AWS, we love eBPG,” said Jeremy…Read … Continue reading →

Rocky Linux’s governing board, the RESF, includes former Google director of engineering for open source, Chris DiBona, and Linux stable kernel maintainer, Greg Kroah-Hartman. The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) was established in early…Read More

When Microsoft announced it would be spending $10 billion on the next stage of its OpenAI partnership, everyone knew it was big news. The real question was: “What, exactly, would this mean?” Now we know. Today, during a surprise Microsoft … Continue reading →

In 2022, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation Research surveyed the cloud developer world. They found, to no surprise for anyone in the business, that cloud-native technologies are dominating the cloud application world.…Read More