Practical Technology

We use containers all the time, but we’re not ready to give up on Virtual Machines (VM) yet. Both have their uses. But, what if we could use the flexibility and ease of deployment of containers with the security and manageability of VMs? That’s the…Read More

A dozen years ago, people still had trouble getting their heads around the concept of a cloud. The joke that a cloud was just someone else’s computer was still popular and already fundamentally wrong. Even Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, sneeringly…Read More

Linux runs the world, but it doesn’t run the traditional PC desktop — nor does it seem likely it ever will. But, that doesn’t mean the Linux desktop can’t play a major role on the office desktop. Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is trying a…Read More

Securing software supply chains isn’t easy technically. But you already knew that. Many new security programs and projects, such as Sigstore, Supply-Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA, pronounced “salsa”), and Software Bill of Materials…Read More

Not that long ago, the idea that another major language would be supported in the Linux kernel would have been laughable. Linux was C’s poster child. Sure, there have been efforts to introduce other languages into the kernel, notably C++. They…Read More

In Debian Linux’s 29-year history, there was one constant: Debian would be made entirely of free software. Debian also defined exactly what free software was in its Open Source Definition. Until now. Starting with the next version, Debian 12, aka…Read More