I’m not getting any younger, but my tiny little business, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates, is still going strong after over 30 years, even though I’m well past retirement age. My retirement plan, as I like to tell people, is to fall … Continue reading →

Without open source, there is no AI. It’s that simple. But, those same licenses have been showing their age: The Gnu General Public License (GPL), Apache License, and Mozilla Public License don’t fit well with software-as-a-service or cloud services.…Read More

The OpenStack community unveiled Bobcat, its 28th version, on October 4, 2023. This new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud release came with 10,476 changes and was authored by over 580 contributors. This milestone is integral to the Linux,…Read More

BastionZero’s OpenPubkey, which is a new cryptographic protocol that’s designed to fortify the open-source software ecosystem, is now a Linux Foundation open-source project. Docker is also integrating OpenPubkey, so that you can use it for container…Read More

Microsoft’s proprietary protocol, Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS), started with a good idea. It would enable hardware vendors to add networking support to USB devices without having to build them from scratch. There was only one…Read More

A year ago, Chainguard introduced Wolfi, a pioneering community-driven Linux un-distribution. It was engineered for minimalism, swift updates, and accelerated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) remediation. An un-what you ask? Wolfi is a…Read More