January 4, 2019
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Linux is everywhere including your car. While some companies, like Tesla, run their own homebrew Linux distros, most rely on Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). AGL is a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open platform for connected cars with over 140 members.
It’s a Linux-powered car world More>
January 3, 2019
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Last year was among the best of times for Linux and open-source. It was also the worst of years. The top five Linux and open-source stories tell it all.
December 29, 2018
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If you follow Chromebook development news the way hot-stove baseball fans follow the latest trade rumors, you know Google is working on bringing Windows to Chromebook.
If you have that one Windows applications you must run, Google has been working on making it possible to dual-boot Windows 10 on Chromebook since July 2018. This is not the same as Google bringing Linux to Chromebook. With the latter, you can run both operating systems at once. With the former, you can run one or the other, not both, simultaneously.
December 20, 2018
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I was just reminded again why I use Linux desktops. Two-and-a-half months after its release, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update is finally recommending “advanced users” can install it. Personally, I like running operating systems that don’t destroy my data or come with Blue Screens of Death. It also doesn’t hurt any that the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Linux Mint, Mint 19.1, is a superb desktop.
December 19, 2018
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The enterprise server market belongs to Linux now. Clouds, web-servers, you name it, Linux runs it. One of the biggest reasons for this remains that Linux is cheaper than the alternatives. But that doesn’t mean Linux has all its way when fighting against legacy systems. Take, for example, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Wanting to save money, the IRS set up a migration plan in 2014 to move 1,400 databases and 190 applications designed to operate on Oracle Sparc servers running Solaris Unix to IBM mainframes running zLinux. According to the Department of Treasury auditors, the “IRS made a decision to consolidate platforms and migrate applications to Linux-based operating systems.”
In theory, two-thirds of applications and databases were supposed to have been moved by December 2016… in theory.
IRS Linux move delayed by lingering Oracle Solaris systems More>
December 14, 2018
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Protecting your stored data on the cloud is a concern, but it’s easy enough with encryption. Thanks to SSL, it’s simple to protect data in motion on the network. But protecting your data when it’s being used on the cloud is not so simple. Enter IBM, which, in partnership with Fortanix, is now providing data-in-use protection for your container workloads running on the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service with IBM Cloud Data Shield.
IBM protects your cloud container data running under Kubernetes with encryption More>