CNCF’s Notary and Notation get first full release
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) Notary Project and Notation Project standardization projects for supply chain security have received a major update with version 1.0.0, marking their first full release.
The Notary Projects and its derivative Notation are two development projects fo... Read more
OpenSSF launches manifesto for responsible open-source use
The OpenSSF End Users Working Group wants end users of open-source software to pay more attention to the responsible use of the software. To this end, the Open Source Consumption Manifesto (OSCM) has now been presented.
With the manifesto, OpenSSF wants to achieve that end-users of open-source s... Read more
Redis extends to add vector search & wider tools
Databases are still changing. Despite having been on the planet for some 60-years depending on which history of data analysis you care to read, the development of databases continues to grow every year. Primarily driven by new use cases for data, databases of all descriptions are also evolving due ... Read more
SUSE partners with Oracle and Rocky Linux for freely available EL source code
SUSE partnered with Oracle and CIQ, the party behind Rocky Linux, to encourage developers to create a RHEL-compatible distribution. The partnership supports this by offering the Linux source code for free and open.
SUSE, Oracle and CIQ together form OpenELA, an abbreviation for Open Enterprise ... Read more
Scarf open source leader: Why metrics matter
Scarf helps software application developers and data science engineers to understand how their organisation’s open source software is being used. It does this by proactively working to uncover and connect with new users, advocates (i.e. users downloading a project’s open source packages, artifa... Read more
SUSE emphasizes open-source support after closing off of RHEL
Red Hat has ended public open-source access to its own Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and not everyone is happy about that. Competitor SUSE emphasizes via a blog post that it has an alternative with Liberty Linux. Support for open source remains unchanged on their end, says SUSE's Technology & produc... Read more
OpenInfra Foundation opens European hub in Belgium
The Open Infrastructure Foundation is opening a regional hub in Europe. This will be located in Belgium.
The Open Infrastructure Foundation is on a mission to promote open source worldwide. It wants to achieve that goal by opening a central hub in Europe and Asia. The organization chooses to ma... Read more
Microsoft makes Azure Linux generally available
The announcement follows the CBL-Mariner project announcement from last year.
This week at Microsoft's Build event, the software giant announced that it has made Azure Linux generally available. Azure Linux is Microsoft's own distribution of the open source operating system.
Jim Perrin, princ... Read more
IBM unveils Watsonx to bring generative AI to the enterprise
The US tech giant is jumping into the generative AI market promising to "power next generation foundation models" for businesses.
This week IBM announced the impending arrival of IBM watsonx, a new AI and data platform that will enable enterprises to scale and accelerate the impact of the most a... Read more
Does the future of (generative) AI lie in open source?
The open-source community is said to be winning the battle for AI development. This is stated by a senior Google engineer in a paper that has come out. "Plainly put, they are lapping us."
The document reveals that Google has no secret weapon in the fight for AI. Since the release of AI chatbot C... Read more