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Red Hat is making it clear it’s all containers all the time in its Red Hat OpenShift cloud. When Red Hat launched its OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud in 2013, the focus was on making life easier for developers. OpenShift’s theme remains the same but Red Hat has made it crystal clear that developing on the cloud today … Read More

From the Large Hadron Collider to the Tesla Model S, this 25-year-old operating system can be found in some amazing places. But there’s one place Windows still has the edge. Over the years, I’ve had my fair share of disagreements with both Linux and Linux users. But as Linux has entered its second quarter-century, I’ve found myself thinking about all … Read More

Samba 4.5 has been released and it is the latest, newest stable branch of the free widely-used, cross-platform, and open-source software project that re-implements the SMB/CIFS networking protocol on UNIX-like platforms. Samba is being used by default in numerous, if not all GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as on Apple’s macOS, to allow users to access network shares from other computers that run Microsoft Windows and to interact with them to exchange any file format that exists today. As expected, Samba 4.5 is a massive release, which not only resolves many of the issues from previous versions but also introduces a bunch of new features and enhancements to make this open source software even more reliable and secure. As such, to improve security, Samba 4.5 comes with NTLMv1 … Read More

Respect for licenses is key to open source software development, said Marc Merlin in his talk at LinuxCon North America.

No one noticed, but in HPE’s spin-off of its software assets, the company also tied the knot with leading enterprise Linux power SUSE. Before HPE spun out its software assets in a deal with Micro Focus, the UK-based business was best known for its soup-to-nuts support of COBOL. What most people missed is the deal also made HPE the first … Read More

A tour through the moments that marked the 20 years of community history, starting with the technologies that made possible its existence. Full Story

Although VMware and Red Hat might have seemed to be best buddies at last week’s LinuxCon, this week it’s become obvious that Red Hat is locked and loaded and has VMware in its sites. During a week when the suits at the virtualization company would doubtlessly like attention focused on Las Vegas and its VMWorld 2016 users’ conference, Red Hat … Read More

Today, August 25, 2016, Red Hat announced that version 7.3 of its powerful Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system is now in development, and a Beta build is available for download and testing. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Beta brings lots of improvements and innovations, support for new hardware devices, and improves the overall security of the Linux kernel-based operating system … Read More

TORONTO — It’s been twenty-five years since Linux began. Today, we’re living in a world where Microsoft has embraced Linux and everything — and I mean everything — depends on Linux. It didn’t start that way. It began as a small project without any great ambitions. In a series of interviews, Linus Torvalds, Linux’s creator, and I talked about Linux’s … Read More

The Linux operating system kernel turns 25 years old on 25 August 2016, with the project having grown immensely over the past two decades. As reported by Ars Technica, Linus Torvalds posted a message in 1991 announcing the launch of Linux – which was “just a hobby”.   Full Story

The development cycle of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system continues, and today we would like to inform our readers about the availability of the third and last Alpha build in the series. Yes, that’s right, openSUSE Leap 42.2 Alpha 3 is now available for public testing, and it looks like it includes all the stable and thoroughly tested core … Read More

Members of the open-source community have welcomed new legislation from Bulgaria that says software written for the country’s public sector should be open source. They argue that the amendment its parliament passed in early July will trigger better software, lower costs, and greater transparency. Bulgaria could be a testbed for other European countries interested in the idea of going open … Read More

The announcement this week that Splice Machine is open-sourcing its product has become just the latest reminder that — in emerging technology markets — open source is increasingly the rule, not the exception. Open-source software is one of those overnight successes that’s been a decade and more in the making. It’s a far cry from the early aughts when Red … Read More

Zimbra 8.7 is specifically enhanced for global enterprises and service providers, including Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), a new Zimbra Packaging System, SSL Server Name Identification (SNI), and Zimbra Postscreen, and all delivering a low total cost of ownership (TCO). “To help our customers and partners better meet critical security needs, Zimbra invested serious development time into a 2FA feature, as well as a new packaging system that helps in the security and administration of Zimbra Collaboration.

Did you know you can adorn your Raspberry Pi with HATs? Of course we’re not talking about hats like people put on their heads, but rather HATs: “hardware attached on top”. Pimoroni also has a Pi Zero sized board, the Unicorn pHAT, with 8×4 pixels, and a tiny 1×8 board called Blinkt!