Practical Technology

When Red Hat changed how users and companies access its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code, the North Carolina-based software company likely never expected the move to blow up the way it has. First, the RHEL clone distributors — AlmaLinux…Read More

I’d been waiting for Oracle to throw its hat into the ring for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux source-code fight. I knew it was only a matter of time. On July 10, Oracle’s Edward Screven, chief corporate architect, and Wim Coekaerts, head…Read More

I started using social networking in the days of Usenet and online services, such as CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy. I’m still a heavy social-network user. Today, besides the usual, I’m also on the newer, would-be Twitter replacements, including…Read More

Opinion What is Red Hat thinking? It’s not Red Hat’s fault, I blame IBM for the company’s recent Linux code licensing changes and all the misery it unleashed. While I know about Red Hat as well as any outsider can, I’m not an insider. I should have…Read More

“Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I’m sixty-four.” OK, so we can be certain that John Lennon and Paul McCartney weren’t thinking about Linux when they wrote this classic Beatles song. But, we can also be certain that the latest…Read More

It all began with an unassuming blog post, “Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream,” by Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s vice president of Core Platforms. For the non-Hatters among you, Core Platforms is the division in charge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux…Read More