Dell and Red Hat introduce bare metal servers with OpenShift
Dell Technologies and Red Hat now offer customers within the Dell APEX program bare metal servers on which Red Hat OpenShift is installed and configured by default. This allows customers to better run and use Kubernetes clusters for their increasing number of workloads and save time.
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Unity appoints former leader of IBM and Red Hat as CEO
Unity is getting a new CEO in the aftermath of incurring the wrath of game developers worldwide. John Riccitiello is stepping down effective immediately, being replaced by former Red Hat CEO and IBM President Jim Whitehurst.
Riccitiello has had a long tenure as leader of the game engine company,... 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
Lightning strikes the open-source world: SUSE builds its own RHEL variant
Bad weather in the open-source world. It was already raining criticism on Red Hat's announcement to put RHEL behind a paywall. The storm really seems to be brewing now, and SUSE is announcing to fork RHEL.
SUSE is going into battle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is doing so by brewing... Read more
Oracle: IBM is trying to kill off its Linux competition
In a blog post, Oracle has taken aim at IBM, which owns Red Hat. It was recently announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) would not provide public source code from June 21. This is causing significant problems for "downstream" variants based on RHEL, including Oracle Linux. "Fewer competitors... Read more
With Red Hat killing off CentOS 7, where do organizations move to?
Red Hat has announced that CentOS 7 will no longer receive updates as of June 2024. It will also stop offering source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for non-customers, preventing free distribution. By doing so, it wants to force more customers toward RHEL. What options do you have as an al... Read more
Red Hat makes Ansible Event-Driven and adds generative AI chatbot
Red Hat presented some much-needed innovation for Ansible at its summit in Boston. One very big change is that Ansible is now Event-Driven. You no longer need to manual kick off an Ansible playbook or use third party software, Ansible can automatically start a playbook based on observed events. In ... Read more
Red Hat makes Ansible Event-Driven and adds generative AI chatbot
Red Hat presented some much-needed innovation for Ansible at its summit in Boston. One very big change is that Ansible is now Event-Driven. No longer does the software have to kick off an Ansible playbook, Ansible can automatically start a playbook based on observed events. In addition, with Ansibl... Read more
Red Hat wants to make software development more secure and manageable
Red Hat is hosting its annual summit in Boston this week, announcing numerous new solutions there. Two of them focus on software development, with the Red Hat Developer Hub (Backstage) primarily intended to provide more overview and the Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain intended to make softwar... Read more
Red Hat unveils Enterprise Linux 9.2, sporting many new features
The latest version of the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system offers expanded capabilities as well as security updates and other fixes.
This week Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 . The new release furthers Red Hat’s efforts to "simplify a... Read more