Practical Technology

Open source security is now vital not only to developers but to governments and top corporations as well. Open source security has always been important. We just pretended otherwise. We don’t have that luxury of laziness anymore. Now, the U.S.…Read More

In the beginning, there was the source code. And, Linus Torvalds shaped it and called it Linux, and it was good. Now the operating system was formless and hard to use, so Owen Le Blanc of the Manchester Computing Centre (MCC) said, “Let there be a…Read More

We all know that some perfectly good Windows 10 PCs can’t be upgraded to Windows 11. But did you know that Canalys Insights estimated there are 240 million Windows 10 PCs doomed to the trash heap because they can’t be upgraded to Windows 11 after…Read More

This new vulnerability, Terrapin, breaks the integrity of SSH’s secure channel. Yes, that’s just as bad as it sounds. Anyone who does anything on the cloud or programming uses Secure Shell (SSH). So any vulnerability is bad news. Guess what? I’ve got…Read More

A few years back, things were relatively simple regarding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). If you needed support, you’d get a contract with Red Hat. If you didn’t, you’d run the community RHEL distro, Community Enterprise Operating system (CentOS).…Read More

Opinion What do Amazon, Sony, and Broadcom all have in common? Give up? Each, in their own way, has made it clear that when you buy something from them, you don’t actually own it. Going back to 2009, Amazon dropped 1984 and Animal Farm from its…Read More