Tag: linux
Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region
Richi Jennings | | A fool thinks himself to be wise—but a wise man knows himself to be a fool, Africa, Debian, Debian package, free software, GCP, Google Cloud, Linus Torvalds, linux, Linux 6.0, open source, open source vs. proprietary, proprietary software, South Africa, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Linux 6.0 promoted to Stable, Debian 12 will include closed-source binaries, and Google Cloud opens its first Africa region ...
Rust in Linux 5.20 | Deepfake Hiring Fraud | IBM WFH ‘New Normal’
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, Deepfake, Great Resignation, ibm, If we are true to ourselves we can not be false to anyone, linux, remote working, Rust, The Long View, working from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Linus says next release will support Rust, FBI warns scammers are getting hired in deepfake interviews, and 80% of IBM staff stay at home ...
JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge
At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a ...
Libbpf Vs. BCC for BPF Development
If you’re into Linux development, you've probably heard BPF mentioned over the last few years. BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter, and the technology has a large number of use cases. BPF ...
Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
Richi Jennings | | Akamai, Apple, authentication, DNS, Identity, insider threats, LAPSUS$, linux, NIST, Okta, outage, random number generator, The Long View, This above all—to thine own self be trueIn this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again ...
Why the Linux Kernel is Still Important
Last year, the Linux kernel turned 30. If you’re someone who’s been immersed in the Linux world since Y2K like I am, it may feel a bit surreal that so much time ...
Best of 2021 – Torvalds’ Bug Warning is a Lesson for Linux Users
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our series of the Best of 2021. Linux does, ...
AWS Outage Outrage | Rusty Linux | ARM Latest
Richi Jennings | | Amazon Web Services, ARM, AWS, FTC, linux, NVIDIA, outage, Rust, SoftBank, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Amazon Web Services falls on its face, Linux’s move to Rust takes the next step, and the FTC stabs another fatal wound in the horrible Arm/Nvidia ...
What 30 Years of Linux Taught the Software Industry
Linux has become the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing over the last 30 years. Reflecting on what made this possible and how its open source philosophy finally imposed ...
Foundation Proposes Advancing eBPF Adoption Across Multiple OSes
The eBPF Foundation, which proposes to advance adoption of an approach that enables sandbox programs to run faster at the kernel level, is being launched today as an arm of the Linux ...
Shoreline Platform Automates Repetitive IT Tasks
Shoreline emerged from stealth today to make available a namesake incident automation platform that eliminates the need to manually perform the same repetitive tasks. Anurag Gupta, Shoreline CEO, said the platform is ...
Rocky Linux Emerges as a CentOS Replacement
B. Cameron Gain | | CentOS, linux, open source, open source code, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rhel, Rocky LinuxRocky Linux was created to offer the community an alternative following Red Hat’s recent decision to shift its focus away from CentOS—the open source version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). However, the ...
