Practical Technology

Thirteen years ago, developers at the NASA Ames Research Center and Rackspace, independently came up with the idea for an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Today, we call that cloud OpenStack. Now, after releasing Austin to Zed,…Read More

Today, billions of containers on clouds run the applications we use every day. And, while container technology dates back to 2000 with FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones, Docker, the open-source platform designed to simplify the creation, deployment,…Read More

Students have a lot of options when it comes to how to study and get their work done. Sure, you can go with Apple’s macOS, but there are also Windows and ChromeOS to choose from. Google’s ChromeOS can be found in Chromebooks, which make for useful…Read More

Today, many Linux users would be shocked to know that there was once a lawsuit aimed squarely at Linux’s heart: Its intellectual property (IP). Some people even thought SCO’s lawsuit against IBM might end Linux. That didn’t happen, but it did make…Read More

With VEX, you can use SBOMs to help secure your code. The good thing about software bill of materials (SBOM), pronounced SBOMB — is they show you a complete inventory of your application’s open source components. That’s great, but as you examine all…Read More

Working out what’s what with your program’s open source elements can be a real pain in the rump. It can be really hard to track a software project’s open source dependencies and their security ramifications. Not that will come as any surprise to you.…Read More