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Provided by GlobeNewswire Introduces full technology stack integrating key capabilities of enterprise, hyper-scale, cloud  and high-performance computing (HPC) Launches with $4M in Series A backing from OpenDrives Inc. and IAG Capital Partners BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ctrl IQ, Inc. announced today its official launch unveiling the first full technology stack that merges the key capabilities of enterprises, hyper-scale, cloud and high-performance ...

CloudLinux Hopes to Release AlmaLinux, Its CentOS Replacement, This Week It is one of two CentOS clones being built to fill the void left by Red Hats unpopular decision to end CentOSs role as a downstream version of RHEL. CloudLinux hopes to release its drop-in replacement for CentOS 8, the latest and final release of Red Hats popular free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as early as this week.  The community thats formed around the project has most of the operating systems c...

NAS Developer OpenDrives Nabs $20M In New Funding, Invests In Ctrl IQ ‘The partnership will be focused on developing the compute side of OpenDrives. That’s a big focus of our new funding,’ says Sean Lee, OpenDrives’ chief strategy and product officer. By Joseph F. Kovar January 21, 2021, 09:32 AM EST Enterprise-grade NAS technology developer OpenDrives Thursday said it has closed a Series B funding round that will bring the company up to $20 million in ...

First of many new programs, says biz, but it is no substitute for free CentOS Tim Anderson Wed 20 Jan 2021 // 20:04 UTC Share Copy Red Hat, which is killing CentOS Linux in favour of CentOS Stream, will extend its developer subscription to allow free production use of RHEL for up to 16 systems. CentOS Linux is a community build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and therefore suitable for production use. CentOS Stream, which will remain available, is a preview build of w...

Doing both CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux would mean doing both poorly claims CentOS board member Tim Anderson Tue 22 Dec 2020 // 09:30 UTC Share Copy Red Hats Karsten Wade, a Senior Community Architect and member of the CentOS board, has defended the decision to kill off CentOS Linux in favour of CentOS Stream, saying the two projects were "antithetical" and Stream is a satisfactory replacement in most cases. CentOS Linux is downstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)...

"Thinking back to early CentOS days... My cofounder was Rocky McGaugh. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you...Rocky Linux" — Gregory Kurtzer, Founder About Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux, now that CentOS has shifted direction. Frequently Asked Questions Q: What do you mean, "CentOS has shifted direction?" The CentOS projec...

Community Concerns Prompt Red Hat to Drop CentOS for CentOS Stream According to Red Hat, CentOS is being ditched for CentOS Stream because it "was not actually providing that much usefulness to Red Hat." Red Hats decision earlier to stop development of the Linux distribution CentOS to concentrate on CentOS Stream has created a brouhaha on social media. Thats because it has IT pros who are dependent on the popular server operating system scurrying to figure how best to replace it now that ...

Big Red: This is not some gimmick so that you buy support from us Tim Anderson Tue 15 Dec 2020 // 17:17 UTC Share Copy In the wake of Red Hats decision to end support for CentOS Linux comes a raft of alternatives to fill the void, including Project Lenix - an offshoot of Cloud Linux - and Oracles free Linux, which Big Red is heavily promoting. CloudLinux is a distribution based on RHEL/CentOS aimed at hosting providers and enterprises. It is not free but is offered on su...

It’s the end of CentOS as we know it Earlier this week, the CentOS project announced the shift to CentOS stream. In a nutshell, this means that they will discontinue being a close clone of RHEL along with security updates, and instead it will serve as a development branch of RHEL. As you can probably imagine (or gleam from the comments in that post I referenced), a lot of people are unhappy about this. One particular quote got my attention this morning while catching up on this week’s editi...

Rocking the Red Hat boat with an alternative distro designed for production use Tim Anderson Thu 10 Dec 2020 // 15:30 UTC Share Copy Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS project, has kicked off a new venture called Rocky Linux, the aim being to build "a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100 per cent bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)". Just days after Red Hat CTO Chris Wright declared that "we will shift our investments t...