Practical Technology

Want to bring your old PC or Mac back to life? You can revive it from the dead with Google ChromeOS Flex. The next-generation IBM z16 comes with an IBM Telum processor for real-time AI insights. Microsoft has its own Linux distribution and, yes, you…Read More

Looking for a CentOS 7 replacement? Google Cloud suggests you look at Rocky Linux. Want to bring your old PC or Mac back to life? You can revive it from the dead with Google ChromeOS Flex. Rocky Linux is more than just a CentOS clone. With its…Read More

Looking for a CentOS 7 replacement? Google Cloud suggests you look at Rocky Linux. Rocky Linux is more than just a CentOS clone. With its Peridot build system, anyone can reproduce Rocky Linux from scratch, What is the best Linux distro for…Read More

I have a dusty, old Dell computer. It used to run Windows 7. I could have “upgraded” it to Windows 8.x, but that was never an “upgrade” in my book. Today, though, I can bring it safely back to a productive life with Google’s beta-tested and…Read More

Hybrid working will fail if employers keep ignoring the needs of disabled workers Read now A little over a year ago, Rocky Linux arrived, and it was an instant hit. Rocky Linux, the brainchild of CentOS co-founder and high-performance computing (HPC)…Read More

Ever since Heartbleed made life miserable for anyone using OpenSSL, I get a sick feeling in my tummy whenever I hear about an OpenSSL security hole. The latest, CVE-2022-2274, didn’t reach Heartbleed levels of ick, but it was more than bad enough.…Read More