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Reactions continue to Red Hats announcement that theyd start limiting access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, reports Ars Technica: Rocky Linux, launched by CentOS co-founder Greg Kurtzer as a replacement RHEL-compatible distro, announced Thursday that it believes Red Hats moves "violate th...

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The newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux also improves support for containers.

Read later Audio version Summary: Pivoting off of last week’s Red Hat Summit, a look at its edge announcements and how Red Hat contributes to IBM’s broader growth strategy. The network edge is the new battleground for IT product vendors and service providers  as the nexus of ubiquitous connectivity, particularly low-latency 5G wireless and smart, connected devices and sensors are moving IT’s center of gravity away from consolidated data centers. The resulting explosion of  locally-gene...

Red Hat extends open hybrid cloud to support industrial edge deployments SHARE Open hybrid cloud has been a focus of Red Hat Inc. for almost a decade. Long before it became part of the mainstream technology conversation, Red Hat saw the inherent possibilities of allowing customers to choose what applications they run, where and how. Now, the Red Hat team is extending its open hybrid cloud strategy to embrace edge computing, and specifically industrial edge. “We are d...

Red Hats RHEL 8.4 Release Targets Edge Deployments Unveiled at this years Red Hat Summit, the latest version of Red Hat’s flagship enterprise offering, RHEL 8.4, features edge-focused improvements like enhanced container management, less reboots after an update and more. This morning at the virtual Red Hat Summit, Red Hat unveiled version 8.4 of its flagship operating system to its online audience. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4 offers a slew of features meant to cement Linux on th...

Red Hat, NEC Collaborate to Drive Kubernetes-based 5G Adoption Red Hat, Inc., the worlds leading provider of open source solutions, announced a collaboration with NEC Corporation to deliver 5G solutions built on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. With NEC’s 5G core network solutions running on Red Hat OpenShift, organizations will be able to capitalize on 5G across a broad set of use c...

The security scanner that cried wolf Last updated 04 Mar 2021, originally created 03 Mar 2021 If you run a security scanner on your Docker image, you might be in for a shock: often you’ll be warned of dozens of security vulnerabilities, even on the most up-to-date image. After the third or fourth time you get this result, you’ll start tuning the security scanner out. Eventually, you won’t pay attention to the security scanner at all—and you might end up missing a real security vulnerab...

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...