Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, aka “Noble Numbat,” a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for d...
Even with all of the advances in IT, whether it’s modular hardware, massive cloud computing resources, or small-form-factor edge devices, IT still has a scale problem. Not physically—it’s e...
The internet of things (IoT) has transformed the way we interact with the world, connecting a myriad of devices to the internet, from smart thermostats in our homes to industrial sensors in manu...
Linus Torvalds has been working on Linux for 32 years, longer than many software developers have been alive. Surprisingly though, Linux, Torvalds’ earliest “hobby project,” arguably gains i...
Red Hat on November 8 announced both the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 and the planned release of RHEL 8.9, which expand the built-in Podman container management ca...
Cloud computing has become synonymous with enterprise IT, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Though enterprises now spend roughly $545 billion annually on cloud infrastructure, according to...
Hot on the heels of Oracle’s release of the Java 21 platform , Microsoft now is offering its own build of the open source OpenJDK 21, at no cost. Available from learn.microsoft.com as of Sep...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3707711/microsoft-ships-java-21-builds.html#tk.rss_linux
Open source is everywhere ; a Synopsys study found that 96% of all software code bases analyzed included open source software. That’s the good news. Ironically, it’s also the bad news, as ...
Microsoft has long intended to make Windows the place for developers. Its intention is shown in both software and hardware as the company aims to deliver tools that make it possible to build code...
I think it’s fair to say that when Oracle joins a group that promises “free lunch,” it’s someone else’s lunch that Oracle is hoping to eat. How else to explain the Open Enterprise Linux...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705094/follow-the-cloud-money.html#tk.rss_linux
Responding to Red Hat’s recent changes to Linux source availability , Suse, Oracle, and CIQ have partnered to form a trade association to encourage the development of Linux distributions compat...
We’re going back to the future with commercial Linux. In case you missed it, Red Hat apparently got tired of companies masquerading as communities, building Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clon...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3701935/red-hat-kicked-off-a-tempest-in-a-teapot.html#tk.rss_linux
For decades Red Hat has led the enterprise Linux market, but as popular as its eponymous Linux distribution might be, CentOS 7 is orders of magnitude more widely used —20 times as popular, by m...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3700651/red-hat-ends-the-rhel-clones-free-lunch.html#tk.rss_linux
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the ncdu command. It's a command that you can use to see how much disk space your directories and files are using. It will list them in size (largest f...
https://www.infoworld.com/video/116059/how-to-use-the-ncdu-command#tk.rss_linux
Barbara Liskov—the brilliant Turing Award winner whose career inspired so much modern thinking around distributed computing—was fond of calling out the “power of abstraction” and its role...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3689690/how-ebpf-unlocks-cloud-native-innovation.html#tk.rss_linux
Canonical has released its real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux platform, intended to offer end-to-end security and reliability for time-bound workloads. Unveiled February 14 and positioned for use...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3688430/real-time-ubuntu-linux-now-available.html#tk.rss_linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now will run fully supported on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud platform. Although RHEL competes with Oracle Linux, Oracle says it is not stressed abou...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3686519/red-hat-linux-comes-to-oracle-cloud.html#tk.rss_linux
Old rivals Red Hat and Oracle have teamed up for RHEL-based virtual machines running in Oracle’s OCI service.
Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro , a Linux security maintenance subscription service covering thousands of applications and toolchains in the open-source ecosystem, is generally available as of January 2...
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the w command. Yes, the command is simply “w”. It’s a lot like the who command, but provides more information.
https://www.infoworld.com/video/115339/how-to-use-the-w-command#tk.rss_linux
Canonical has released Ubuntu 22.10, an update to the company’s Linux distribution that introduces MicroPython support on a variety of microcontrollers. Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu” and anno...
Canonical is offering a public beta of Ubuntu Pro, providing Ubuntu Linux users expanded security maintenance and compliance for software ranging from the Node.js runtime to Python 2 and Rust. ...