Open source is increasingly dominated by permissive licenses with the biggest projects dominated by the biggest tech companies. Does this mean that the soul of open-source is lost? Keith D. Gregory wrote a great breakdown of the issue, something we recently went into detail about on the Gestalt IT Rundown.
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10 In-demand skills to learn in 2019
With the new year rolling around, what better time to evaluate how to grow your career with new and relevant skills. Justin Paul already wrote a great piece about career planning and the rate of technological change. With that piece in mind, this article on in-demand skills seems like a perfect companion.
Linus Torvalds Gets Out of Timeout
Linus Torvalds is returning from his self-imposed exile from the Linux development community. After a month away, it seems he’s ready to live up to the new kernel developer Code of Conduct.
Qualcomm’s Pyrrhic Acquisition | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 21, 2018
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week. This week they discuss Qualcomm making an acquisition to avoid being acquired, Salon trying crypto mining to monetize content, the limits of ARM-based Windows 10, and why Puppy Linux is a winner.
Satyamania: Windows Subsystem for Linux
Microsoft 2006: We could theoretically sue every Linux user for patent infringement
Microsoft 2017: Ubuntu is in the Windows App Store.
Microsoft 2028: Windows adopts Linux kernel, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria
The Windows Subsystem for Linux proves we are living in strange times.
Maxta and Red Hat Team Up For Hypervisor Choice
Maxta has offered a software-centric approach to hyperconverged infrastructure for a while. The company now support easy migrations in Red Hat to KVM, giving organizations more choice on how best to implement HCI for their needs.
Reconsidering DH2i with DxEnterprise 17
Orchestrated containerized database workloads for OS and infrastructure independence. That’s what DH2i is able to offer enterprises with the release of DxEnterprise 17. Previously limited to Windows-only, this new version of DxEnterprise may cause you to give DH2i another look.
Don’t Hate, Deprecate: RHEL 7.4 Breaks up with Btrfs and FedFS
Btrfs might not be dead, but Red Hat officially broke up with the Oracle-created file system. It now joins others on the Deprecated Functionality List. In the 7.4 RHEL release, this also include FedFS. Both of these file systems are still available to other Linux projects, but losing Red Hat support I’m sure isn’t welcome […]
A Quick Look at LinuxKit Packaging System
For those that want a lean Linux subsystem to provide container functionality to be part of a greater container platform, LinuxKit is for you. If you’re not sure where to get started with it, check out this piece by Docker Captain Ajeet Singh Raina.
Veeam Goes Hollywood, Now Has Two Agents
Veeam as a company has largely eschewed agents for their VM backup solutions. But when it comes to physical servers, the company is offer not one, but two agents to help with your backup and recovery needs.