Practical Technology

2004 was already an eventful year for Linux. As I reported at the time, SCO was trying to drive Linux out of business. Red Hat was abandoning Linux end-user fans for enterprise customers by closing down Red Hat Linux 9 and launching the…Read More

For years now, the most popular end-user operating worldwide has been Linux. Or, to be more precise, it’s Android. According to the Irish analysis site Statcounter’s most recent numbers, Android had 43.74% of the market in February 2024, followed by…Read More

The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director urges developers to move to memory-safe languages such as Rust as soon as possible. We’ve known for ages that we should use memory-safe languages like Rust. But, after lifetimes of deploying…Read More

ZDNET’s key takeaways Pros: Easy to set up, with powerful tools for analyzing your finances and building a budget. Cons: The most expensive personal financial program. I spent my Thanksgiving week looking at personal finance programs, but since…Read More

The business environment is better than ever, but that isn’t stopping many tech companies from laying off employees. At the same time, numerous other organizations — often poorly run ones — insist remote workers return to the office (RTO) in the name…Read More

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF to its friends, enables you to run sandboxed programs in a privileged context in the Linux kernel. Netflix and many other companies, such as Google, use it for network monitoring. Now, Netflix has unveiled…Read More