Practical Technology

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

When you think about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the OpenStack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, and its object storage component, Swift is not the first technology to come to mind. But that’s exactly what…Read More

With the right plugins, ChatGPT 4 — the latest version of OpenAI’s language model system — can be very useful for helping you complete a number of tasks. But, caveat emptor, even the most mature plugins are still, at best, beta quality. Used…Read More

Despite Twitter’s owner Elon Musk’s slashing of Twitter’s workforce, Twitter is still a going concern. But as a former Twitter employee said: “You can blow both engines on a jet, and the jet is still going to glide.” So far, Twitter’s glide has…Read More