Red Hat suspends support for FSF after Stallman return
Red Hat has announced that it is stopping its contributions to the Free Software Foundation. Red Hat board members have expressed disgust at the reinstatement of Richard Stallman to the board.
"I am really outraged by FSF's decision to reinstate RMS. At a moment in time where diversity and inclu... Read more
German Linux company SUSE prepares pre-summer IPO
The Swedish investment firm EQT stands behind the $9 billion offering
Frankfurt-based SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering valued at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), according to Reuters. Quoting sources close to the deal, Reuters reports that SUSE's owner, buyout group EQ... Read more
Red Hat introduces Free RHEL
When CentOS Linux parent company Red Hat announced that it was shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, CentOS users were not happy. To appease them and to keep the promise it made to Open-Source organizations, Red Hat is introducing a new,... Read more
VMs and containers come together in latest Red Hat OpenShift release
Containers are super convenient, especially if you have Kubernetes to manage them. However, most apps today still run on Virtual Machines (VMs). We are going to be in transition for a while, so supporting both VMs and containers in one solution is a good feature to have.
Red Hat brings this capa... Read more
Red Hat tool brings Java applications to Kubernetes
Red Hat has released an update to Migration Toolkit for Applications that makes it easier to migrate Java applications to Quarkus. This allows Java applications to run in Kubernetes environments.
Developers can use Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications to convert Java applications to run on... Read more
Red Hat and Intel work together to capture the emerging 5G market
Red Hat and Intel announced that they would take the next step in their partnership, calling it an evolution that would align their products with the 5G market. Carriers will spend billions upgrading their systems to the 5G standard, which will boost LTE connection levels by up to 100 times.
The... Read more
CentOS Linux changes strategy, users are not happy with RedHat
CentOS's Linux parent company, RedHat, announced that it shifted focus from CentOS (the rebuild of RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux)) to CentOS Stream, which is tracking ahead of a current RHEL release. What that means is, CentOS will no longer be the stable point distribution but a rolling release di... Read more
IBM is cutting 10,000 employees from its European services unit
IBM plans to cut 10,000 jobs from its European services unit to minimize costs before they spin off the division in 2021, according to Bloomberg report released today. The job cuts will affect about 20% of IBM staff in the region, with offices in the U.K. and Germany facing the biggest cuts. Office... Read more
Red Hat Extends Open Hybrid Cloud to the Edge
The new capabilities are designed to deliver more consistent, enterprise-ready innovation, according to RedHat.
This week, Red Hat announced a series of updates that further extend the reach of the Red Hat OpenShift platform to edge computing deployments. The announcement came during the online ... Read more
IBM adds AI features to Cloud Pak offerings
IBM has announced some new updates to Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation. The updates mainly consist of AI features that are supposed to take some tasks out of the hands of users.
In a press release, IBM has made an overview of the new features. The most important highlights can be ... Read more