Practical Technology

Brendan Gregg, Intel Fellow and system expert, argues that eBPF can prevent future-Crowdstrike-like disasters. Others aren’t so sure. In the aftermath of the CrowdStrike Windows security fiasco, security experts and developers alike are looking for a…Read More

I’ve been using Linux for my desktop since 1992. Over the years, I’ve tried more Linux distros than you can shake a laptop at. Since 2010, however, my favorite Linux distribution has been Linux Mint. (More precisely, since Mint 10.) Why? As I wrote…Read More

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has announced a new open-source AI program called LLaMA 3.1 405B. Behind the name that only a programmer could love lies a new, more powerful large language model (LLM) that will power Meta AI assistant, which is…Read More

Several European countries are betting on open-source software for their technology. In the United States, eh, not so much. In the latest news from across the Atlantic, Switzerland has taken a major step forward with its “Federal Law on the Use of…Read More

Sitting here on my Linux desktop, with my Linux servers humming away in the background, the CrowdStrike crash didn’t affect me directly. Like pretty much everyone else on the planet, indirectly, it was another story. Work buddies were stuck in…Read More

The battle between Red Hat and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone distributors takes another turn as the Open Enterprise Linux Association announced that it’s made the source code openly available for RHEL 9.4 and RHEL 8.10. I know what you’re…Read More