Practical Technology

When Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s (RHEL) source code would no longer be easily available, it transformed how the RHEL clones like AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux create their distros. While Oracle and Rocky plan on…Read More

Opinion Meta’s newly released large language model Llama-2 is not open source. Yes, I know Meta AI people proclaim: “Llama 2 [is] the next generation of our open source LLM available for research and commercial use.” So what? It’s not. I can say I’m…Read More

The new Linux Mint 21.2, codenamed “Victoria,” is a refreshing update to my favorite Linux desktop distribution. It continues to build on the solid foundation of Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) and the Linux kernel 5.15, offering a stable and…Read More

I was a database administrator and developer for Adabas/Natural on IBM mainframes; Datatrieve Rdb on VAX/VMS; and the xBase database management system (DBMS) language family when I was much younger. It was some of the most painful work I’d ever done…Read More

Kevin Mitnick’s career began as a criminal hacker but ended too soon as the best-known white-hat hacker. I didn’t know Mitnick, the renowned hacker and cybersecurity expert, well. But I did know him well enough to know he was brilliant. However, I’ve…Read More

Meta, better known to most of us as Facebook, has released a commercial version of Llama-v2, its open-source large language model (LLM) that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text, images, and code. The first version of the Large Language…Read More