Tag: Red Hat

Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India

Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing

US and Iran flags over battle scene with tank

AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now

Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover

The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

That's not a good idea

Cyber-crime

21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid

Automaker's third security snafu in three years

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AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out

Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it

Cybersecurity Month

Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft

Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched

Cybersecurity Month

Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective

Cybersecurity Month

'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover

Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?

Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not

Legal, HR, Finance and Accounting moving to IBM from 2026. Engineering and others staying put... for now

GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months

Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong

Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod

Up to 25 instances for free, but only to play with

Virtualization

VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks

Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust

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Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre

Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks

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As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths

We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differences

Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them

Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster

RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit

GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from English

Fedora 42 beta has so many spins, it'll make your head whirl

The answer to the ultimate question of Linux, the Universe, and Everything?

IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M

What about the average Big Blue worker? $48,582 up from $43,069

Edge + IoT

Axiom Space’s Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1) on a bench with AXIOM in the background

Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit

To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while

'Tis the season to test the RHEL and AlmaLinux 10 betas

And the kernel team's patience?

Discover the future of Linux security

Explore open source strategies to safeguard critical systems and data

Deepen your knowledge of Linux security

AlmaLinux shows off its new Kitten

Also there's a beta of 9.5 – which is more than there is of RHEL

Systems

IBM's mainframe bubble bursts and growth stalls

Red Hat still glowing, but Big Blue's been bruised by investors

The default wallpaper is suitably oracular. We'll trust the company that that's an oriole.

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight

The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability

CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag

Backs RHEL-compatible distro with indemnification and update guarantees

CrowdStrike's Blue Screen blunder: Could eBPF have saved the day?

Grafana Labs CTO looks at the options

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux

Significant improvements to Microsoft's in-house Linux may follow

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OpenSSH bug leaves RHEL 9 and the RHELatives vulnerable

Newly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon

Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build

UEK-next is bleeding edge – unlike most CentOS-alikes

Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms

Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space

Accelerate migration and go beyond virtualisation to cloud native

Speed up the gradual refactoring of legacy software and deliver demonstrable results in months rather than years

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Building resilient access to talent

How embracing open source can help organisations overcome tech skills challenges

Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there

Network scan reveals 26 percent of Linux boxes are CentOS 7, EOL later this month. What happens next?

Red Hat middleware takes a back seat in strategic shuffle

Less middleware plus more AI equals … fewer people?

Legal

IBM sued again for alleged discrimination – this time against White males

Top Trump lieutenant Stephen Miller hopes to skewer Big Blue's Linux slinger on behalf of ex-director

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Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too

Couple dressed as penguins celebrate in the snow

Rocky Linux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux also hit 9.3

Other big names among the RHELatives catch up with Big Purple Hat ... but the future is unclear

The primary Workstation edition wears GNOME 45 and a more colourful Bash prompt.

Fedora 39 waves goodbye to modularity, but has enough spins to make your head spin

20th anniversary version of Linux distro brings lots of new goodies

CxO

Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation

But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone

OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source

Technical Steering Committee also formed

Red Hat retires mailing list, leaving Linux loyalists to read between the lines

Email is just so 20th century

Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira

Just in time to get Atlassian’s latest cross-team collab bits

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

Big Purple may be moving away from the desktop or it could be more strategic

Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux

Time for some fresh GRUB

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RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux

Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices?

AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone

A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing

Sysadmin Month

Penguins on a rocky beach in Antarctica with a ship passing ice floes in the background

SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again

The chameleon-rancher chooses a new, Rocky course

Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry

Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in

Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care

Someone listening through a hole ripped in a paper wall

Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on

When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change

Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge

Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds

Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams

From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all

Personal Tech

One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers

'Changing the world one PC at a time' sounds good to us

The fee, or no to the fee

How a commercial Linux distribution can help you

Red Hat to stop packaging LibreOffice for RHEL

The sky isn't falling… but it's sign of bigger changes to come

Spend to save?

When Open Source Linux might be better with a price tag

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The best of all possible worlds

Hybrid cloud and the need for a single management framework

Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data

Says it'll keep track of what it hoovers up at post-layoff summit

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Keeping it simple

How to improve innovation in hybrid environments

Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us

Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version

When simple is strong

Innovate by standardizing on RHEL

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

'Reject this capitalist logic' urges French legion within Linux slinger

IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff

Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO

Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power

Middle aged spread begins as it joins IBM

The Leap 15.5 beta ran without a hitch in testing, and offers the latest Xfce

Oh, Snap. openSUSE downloads increasing, and Leap 15.5 is coming soon

Could have something to do with Ubuntu kicking Flatpak. Meanwhile, SUSE may be pulling up closer to rival Red Hat

Reg FOSS desk test drive: First beta of Fedora 38 drops

Spoiler: It's looking much better than 37 did at this stage

Fedora 38 will still support framebuffer X11 and NIS+

Next version of Red Hat's bleeding-edge distro won't drop all the older tech it had hoped to

Oracle cozies up to IBM, adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux

So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers

Microsoft Windows and 'Tux' Linux logos next to each

Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good

Ballmer thought this kernel was cancer, Nadella may disagree

Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. What does that leave us with?

People visit Lenovo, a Chinese multinational technology company booth during CEE 2017, the largest electronics trade show of Ukraine

Lenovo thinks customers simply love IT-as-a-service

Anyone that agrees has been 'smoking dope' says one of world's largest resellers

Red Hat, Intel open centers for the edge

Shuttling sensor data all the way into the cloud is so 2014

Storage

Intel DAOS 2.2 and Red Hat Stratis 3.3 released

New versions of two next-gen Linux storage engines may belie fading interest

Linux: Here, there and everywhere

How Red Hat turns an open source entity into overt enterprise security

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Putting on the Red Hat

Keeping on top of Linux enterprise security requirements

Maintaining the IT balancing act

Here's OpenStack Platform 17 – aka what Red Hat hopes your network operator will one day use

IBM's 'bare metal' LinuxONE push: Did somebody say OpenShift?

Research

China's infosec researchers obeyed Beijing and stopped reporting vulns ... or did they?

packed platform on the london underground

You've heard of the cost-of-living crisis, now get ready for the cost-of-working crisis

The beta version of Fedora 37 is here, but it's flakier than a Kellogg's factory. Handle with care.

Fedora 37 beta: Hints of what's to come in Red Hat's free flagship

Red Hat says staff can stay away from the office forever

Red Hat OpenShift adds heterogenous clusters mixing x86, Arm

Dealing with legacy issues around Red Hat crypto versions? Here's a fix

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

Have all the clouds you need, but you’re still going to want a single development platform

At the edge, nobody can hear your IoT devices scream …

Automation outfit ABB sees supply chain woes easing

OpenShift engineering guru Matt Hicks becomes Red Hat's CEO

'Unbreakable' Oracle Linux 9 is a RHEL rebuild with built-in Btrfs support

Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

Virtualization

Ditching VMware over the Broadcom buy? Here are some of your options

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Linux Foundation thinks it can get you interested in smartNICs

openSUSE Leap 15.4: The best desktop on the RPM side of the Linux world

I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

HPC

Red Hat helps US Department of Energy containerize supercomputing

Storage

Marjet Andriesse, Senior Vice President and Head of Red Hat Asia Pacific (left) and Yongcheol Bae, Executive Vice President and Head of the Memory Application Engineering Team at Samsung Electronics (right)

Who had money on Samsung and Red Hat joining forces on next-gen memory software?

Workstation, server, IoT? No worries. Fedora 36 is out – all 13 editions of it

Red Hat makes OpenShift a key part of its edge initiative

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At last, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 slips out

Red Hat adds more Cloud Services to support OpenShift apps

Free enterprise systems management tool Uyuni releases stable version

Red Hat uncorks Application Foundations for cloud-native development

Industry 4.0 – why smart manufacturing is moving closer to the edge

Someone standing on the edge of a rock against some clouds

Red Hat takes you closer to the edge

Red Hat effort to shut down WeMakeFedora.org deemed harassment

The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase

Fedora inches closer to dropping x86-32 support

Red Hat and SUSE latest to suspend sales in Russia

IBM investors staged 2021 revolt over exec pay

Enterprise open-source is on the up and proprietary software on the way down

AlmaLinux 8.5 now includes a PowerPC edition

Nebulon adds Ansible support for infrastructure deployment

Systems

Red Hat signals Intel's software-defined silicon will debut in Linux 5.18

Nobara Project brings whole bunch of extensions so you can frag noobs on Fedora 35

'Now' would be the right time to patch Ubuntu container hosts and ditch 21.04 thanks to heap buffer overflow bug

SUSE announces 'tech and support' product Liberty Linux

CentOS Stream 9: Understanding the new Red Hat OS release for non-Red-Hat-type people

Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 ... this is Linux, right?

Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

CentOS Stream^W^W Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 emerges in beta form

Fedora 35 comes by default with the GNOME 41 desktop

Fedora 35 is out: GNOME 41 desktop, polished UI, easier-to-install closed-source apps

IBM US staff must be fully vaccinated by December – or go back to bed without pay

This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins

30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat

Virtualization

Red Hat buddies up with Nutanix to provide an escape route from VMware

SaaS

VQGAN+CLIP generated image of 'IBM reports strongest revenue growth in three years'

IBM's 3% sales growth may not seem like much but it's the biggest it's had in three years

crying business man washed up on beach talks into phone

Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself

IBM President and former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst quits

Rocky Linux release attracts 80,000 downloads as ex-CentOS users mull choices

Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product

Rocky Linux RC1: as unexciting as you would hope

RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone

State Route 520, the state highway and freeway from Seattle metropolitan area to Redmond's Washington campus

Flatcar Linux takes the 520, drives up to Redmond: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk

Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier reminisces about the history of Red Hat Linux at the Summit keynote

Red Hat OpenShifts gears at summit to pin its future on 'open hybrid cloud'

The Fast and the Curious: Safety-conscious Red Hat eyes continuously certified Linux platform for motors

A revamped overview thanks to GNOME 40 in Fedora 34

Shadow over Fedora 34 as maintainer of Java packages quits with some choice words for Red Hat and Eclipse

Island in the Stream: AlmaLinux project issues first stable release of CentOS replacement

Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return

Shedding the 'bleeding edge' label: If Fedora is only going to be for personal use, that doesn't work for Red Hat

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What's in Fedora 34? GNOME 40, accelerated Wayland, PipeWire Audio, improved Flatpak support, and more

Self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server virty users see stealth inflation

open source love open every together happy clappy vibe etc

Ever wondered why the big beasts in software all suddenly slapped an 'I heart open-source' badge on?

Red Hat returns with another peace offering in the wake of the CentOS Stream affair: More free stuff

Kinoite: Immutable Fedora variant with KDE Plasma desktop on the way

The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now?

The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'

To plug gap left by CentOS, Red Hat amends RHEL dev subscription to allow up to 16 systems in production

Red Hat snaps up Kubernetes security specialist StackRox

Science

Come, chant with us over a sacrificial goat and predict 2021's biggest tech stories to a high degree of accuracy

Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads'

Rocky Linux is go: CentOS founder's new project aims to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream

IBM still not offering future revenue guidance, suffers yet another quarter of falling sales

Juggling Ansible, OpenShift and K8s? This is for you: Red Hat couples automation to cluster management

Red Hat tips its Fedora 33: Beta release introduces Btrfs as default file system, .NET on ARM64, plus an IoT variant

Red Hat Kubernetes shuffles towards the edge with 4.5 release of OpenShift

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

The Red Hat 8.3 installer requires the admin to specify usernames and passwords before the installer touches the disk

Red Hat tips its Fedora at CoreOS Container Linux stans: Hop onto something else, folks, cos this one's on a boat to Valhalla