A few days ago I posted about the release of TK5, which is the "turnkey" mainframe operating system you can run at home on your Linux or other system. However, I learned that the "turnkey" OS isn't as "turnkey" as people like. Specifically, it doesn't work on Debian 12. Here's the fix!
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Want to run an $8 million mainframe at home for free? We wrote about it before, but now the system is upgraded and jam-packed with cool new features.
Read MoreAlma, Rocky, SUSE, and Oracle are all taking different approaches to IBM's bombshell announcement that it's crippling the RHEL clone market. Let's look at the landscape and what the future of RHEL++ semi-clones will be like.
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IBM made some strong-arm moves to stomp out RHEL clones nine days ago. Six days later, one of them found a way to legally circumvent these tactics. There are some clever guys over at Rocky Linux.
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First they came for CentOS Stream...now they've come for the clones. IBM wants more payback on the $34 billion it shelled out for RedHat, and it's decided to cut off Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, and other clones at the knees.
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This whole panic over AI replacing jobs is overblown, right? Stuff like ChatGPT and Midjourney are cool but are just fancy parlor tricks, so need to worry, right? Well....
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Twitter was preparing to upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream but now everyone's gone and they're looking at a June 2024 end of life. Twitter's relationship with FOSS is getting complicated fast.
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Fred Brooks was a pioneer in the field of software engineering. If your boss is incompetent or your projects are falling behind, it's probably because you're violating one of his maxims. Brooks, a Turing Award winner, passed away this week at the age of 91.
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You're telling me there's a guy who runs his business on a 1967 operating system in 2022? And uses Gopher too?Yes, we are telling you that. Plus meet Hugo Award-nominated Galactic Journey and hear about their vintage mainframe experience!
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And you thought Silk Road was bad.This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.
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RedHat Linux 9 will soon be here. It was announced this week at Red Hat Summit and will be the first major release post-IBM acquisition. Presumably Alma and Rocky releases will soon follow. As a rem...
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IBM is planning to scale their Q System One quantum computing platform rather dramatically, according to their published roadmap. The QSO (surely there is a product number for this like 9184 - everyth...
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Recently I purchased a copy of the hoary old tome you see pictured to the right on Amazon: "A Guide to FORTRAN IV Programming" by Daniel D. McCraken, 2nd edition, 1967. For those who have never heard...
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In the mid-70s, my father worked in the American automotive industry in Michigan, and I visited him at work as a small boy. He took me into the "computer room" (as they used to call datacenters) and...
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Big Blue has been talking big quantum numbers recently. According to their recent announcement, they now have 127-qubit processing available for customer use in the IBM Cloud. They claim that quantu...
Read MoreAlmaLinux announced today the ELevate Project, which is their initiative to allow users to upgrade or migrate between any RHEL- based distro. Using this technology, currently you can easily move betw...
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CloudLinux CEO Igor Seletskiy announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board. While he cited multiple reasons, he highlighted the main cause as his desire to empha...
Read MoreIn the world of database systems, SQL has been the king since it took off in the early 80s. It was conceived, developed, and codified in the 1970s but really hit its stride once developers had worked...
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According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue. Amazon AWS trails not far behind at $13.3 billion. The top five (which also inc...
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We covered the recent jarring changes with the CentOS Project. You might also enjoy Our article on rpm-land alternatives A poll we did on your CentOS plans (results) Our interview with Igor Sel...
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CentOS, RIP...long live CentOS Stream?!? What hath IBM wrought? In this video, we break down the CentOS drama. As you can tell from the thumbnail...it isn't pretty! You could answer the question in o...
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We recently asked you what your plans were regarding CentOS. As you may have read, CentOS is changing and we were curious how the community was going to react. The results are in! With 270 votes, he...
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