Practical Technology

ATLANTA — At the first Linux Foundation’s Securing Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion conference, security company CEO HackerOne Mårten Mickos shared his insights on the intersection of artificial intelligence, open source software, and security. In…Read More

Open source and AI have an uneasy relationship. AI can’t exist without open source, but few companies want to open source their AI programs or large language models (LLM). Except, notably, for IBM, which previously open-sourced its Granite models.…Read More

There’s a new virtual machine monitor (VMM) in town: OpenVMM. This new open source, cross-platform, modular VMM represents a step forward in Microsoft’s commitment to open source technologies and secure, efficient virtualization solutions. Of course,…Read More

Well, that was fast. It was only back in early September that Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 1.0. Now, Red Hat has followed up by announcing the general availability of RHEL AI 1.2. This latest release introduces several key…Read More

2004 was a heck of a year for Linux. SCO was still suing IBM and was sure it owned the copyrights to Unix’s code and would control Linux’s fate. In the meantime, Red Hat switched from consumer Linux, Red Hat Linux, to business Linux, Red Hat…Read More

Back in the 70s, if you wanted to be online, you had to be a college student, researcher, or in the military to be on the internet. That was it. Joe or Jane User? Forget about it. Then, during a Chicago blizzard, a young computer scientist, Ward…Read More