Displaying items by tag: Open source

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI becomes a preferred platform for AI deployments on Dell PowerEdge servers
• Dell PowerEdge servers to be the first servers validated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI to help customers more seamlessly develop, test and run large language models (LLMs) to power enterprise applications

With a vivid demonstration of how fragile the world's technology ecosystem is when one cybersecurity vendor makes a configuration mistake, 45Drives president Dr Doug Milburn says it's time for organisations of all sizes to take greater control of their infrastructure, in a move he dubs demicrosoftification.

The container orchestration system Kubernetes hit a major milestone on 6 June 2024, enjoying its 10th anniversary. That's 10 years of changing the face of modern software.

COMPANY NEWS: Data and AI company Databricks today announced it has agreed to acquire Tabular, a data management company founded by Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks, and Jason Reid.

Snowflake has announced it is creating Polaris Catalog, an open standard implementation of Apache Iceberg, and that it will open source it in the next 90 days. This gives enterprises and the Iceberg community new levels of choice, flexibility, and control over their data.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has announced the general availability of AlmaLinux 8.10, a community-owned open-source alternative to CentOS.

Germany-based open source vendor SUSE has appointed technology and marketing veteran Pilar Santamaria as its new vice-president of AI.

The world's second-biggest open source company, SUSE, has a solution to offer those firms that are using CentOS 7, an enterprise Linux distribution that reaches its end of life on 30 June.

The Debian GNU/Linux project, which produces a free Linux distribution, does not appear to be interested in taking a position on allowing contributions generated through AI.

Veteran open source advocate Bruce Perens, creator of the open source definition that has provided the rules for open source software for the last 26 years, has proposed a new licence known as the Post-Open Zero-Cost Licence which, he says, will address existing problems faced by this genre of software.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has presented its new release, Nextcloud Hub 8, to about 200 people at the Nextcloud Enterprise day in Munich on Wednesday.

The original maintainer of the xz Utils package, which was backdoored and almost distributed to production Linux systems, is yet to make any public comment about the incident, saying he first needs to understand the situation thoroughly.

The Debian GNU/Linux project has begun voting for a leader to head the project for 2024-25. Voting began on 6 April and is expected to wind up on 19 April.

All-in-one observability platform unifies data from the cloud with the rest of the IT stack; Supports easier Prometheus and OpenTelemetry instrumentation for hosts and Kubernetes

Global software development hub GitHub has announced code scanning autofix is available in public beta for all GitHub Advanced Security customers. The tool helps developers remediate over two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.

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Open-source webmail project Roundcube has merged its operations with open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud after the founder of the mail project decided he wanted out.

Two Melbourne open source developers have been working for a while on a project to make mobile phones useful as general purpose computing devices and in the broadest way possible.

Enterprise source-code software lifecycle tool GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10 is now generally available, giving organisations access to enhanced security and compliance controls for their repositories.

As the Linux kernel gets set to mark 32 years since its public announcement, a senior developer from German open source firm SUSE has reminded the world at large that it is the de-facto standard for running business-critical workloads.