Practical Technology

Canonical has decided to try a new approach to the Linux desktop with next year’s Long-Term Support (LTS) Ubuntu Linux 24.04 release. This new release will use an immutable Linux system with additional software provided by Snaps. Canonical software…Read More

The Python Package Index (PyPI), is the most popular Python programming language software repository. It’s also a mess. Earlier this year, the FortiGuard team discovered zero-day malware in three PyPI packages called “colorslib,” “httpslib,” and…Read More

At the Red Hat Summit in Boston, I met my old writing buddy from 1993, David Linthicum to discuss where the cloud is in 2023. Now Deloitte Consulting’s Chief Cloud Strategy Officer, Linthicum sees the cloud gaining ever greater importance and…Read More

Say you want to link all your Kubernetes clusters together. And, when I say all your Kubernetes clusters, I mean all of them. The ones in your office, the ones at your data center and even those scattered across multiple cloud providers. You could do…Read More

A year ago, Chainguard released Chainguard Images. These are container base images designed for a secure software supply chain. They do this by providing developers and users with continuously updated base container images with zero-known…Read More

BOSTON — CentOS Linux 7, the community-supported distribution derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is set to reach its end-of-life (EOL) on June 30, 2024. After this date, systems running CentOS Linux 7 will cease to receive software…Read More