September 30, 2019
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Docker, the technology, is the poster child for containers. But it appears Docker, the business, is in trouble. In a leaked memo, Docker CEO Rob Bearden praised workers — despite the “uncertainty [which] brings with it significant challenges” and “persevering in spite of the lack of clarity we’ve had these past few weeks.”
Lack of clarity about what? Sources close to the company say it’s simple: Docker needs more money.
Docker is in deep trouble. More>
September 26, 2019
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Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPI) suing the GNOME Foundation for violating its “wireless image distribution system and method patent” (US Patent No. 9,936,086) doesn’t make much sense. But when has that ever stopped a patent troll?
The GNOME application in question, Shotwell, is a personal photo manager. Its functionality, which has Rothschild all hot and bothered, is that — like all other end-user photo programs — it can import and organize pictures. For relief, Rothschild demands that either this functionality be removed or the company be awarded a “running royalty from the time of judgment going forward.”
Leave GNOME alone: This patent troll is asking for trouble. More>
March 13, 2019
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Programmers love to write code. But what about debugging it, writing test suites, and tracking down security bugs? Not so much. To help address these problems in Linux, Shuah Khan, a noted Linux kernel developer, is becoming — after Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman — the Linux Foundation‘s third Linux Foundation Fellow.
March 12, 2019
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In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss, Mike Sendall. Sendall’s reply? “Vague, but exciting.” We know it today as the web. We’ve come a long, long way since then.
March 12, 2019
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) just launched Open Distro for Elasticsearch. This program takes AWS’s recent proprietary additions to Elasticsearch and open sources them under the Apache 2.0 license. That sounds good.
Shay Banon, co-founder of Elasticsearchand CEO of Elastic, its parent company, sees Amazon as forking and redistributing rebundled Elasticsearch for its own purposes: “From various vendors, to large Chinese entities, to now, Amazon. There was always a ‘reason,’ at times masked with fake altruism or benevolence” for “open-sourcing” their own Elasticsearch forks.
Open Distro for Elasticsearch is Amazon’s move to show it’s pro-open source More>
March 11, 2019
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I was at a conference recently when I realized the person I was talking with thought that containers were just smaller versions of virtual machines (VM). Ah, no. No, they’re not.
Yes, they can function in the same ways from a practical viewpoint. For example, they’re both commonly used to run server applications. How they do that is where things start to be different between them. This, in turn, leads to them being good for different kinds of IT jobs.
What’s the difference between containers and virtual machines? More>