Practical Technology

Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is offering a new security take on its popular Ubuntu desktop and server: Ubuntu Pro. This is an expanded security take on the Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases. It offers expanded security coverage for…Read More

And down went all Microsoft 365 services around the world. One popular argument against putting your business trust in the cloud is that if your hyper-cloud provider goes down, so does your business. Well, on the early U.S. East coast morning, it…Read More

Before Christmas 2022, there was a truly nasty security hole in the Linux 5.15 in-kernel Server Message Block (SMB) server, ksmbd. It could be used to execute code in the kernel context. In short: Bad. But, the newest ksmbd security problem,…Read More

Sorry, Facebook, a proprietary take on the metaverse won’t work. If anything is going to transform the metaverse from hype to reality, it will be open source. While I don’t have the contempt for the metaverse that I do for cryptocurrency, I don’t…Read More

SUSE, a leading Linux and open-source company’s Q4 2022 results for the quarter ending October 31, 2022, are out and look pretty darn good. According to its financial statement, SUSE’s adjusted revenue was up 11% year-on-year to $170.3 million, and…Read More

18 weeks of regular season NFL games later, I still don’t have a clue who will be in Super Bowl LVII. Hopefully, your team is still in the hunt. Mine, the Pittsburgh Steelers, managed to salvage a winning season, and that was about it. Come Sunday,…Read More