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Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?

July 13, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 4

Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. …

Control

The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform

February 18, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. …

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CentOS And HPC: It’s Okay, We Are Moving On

December 21, 2020 Douglas Eadline 0

The recent announcement by the CentOS project to discontinue mirroring Red Hat releases, which The Next Platform has already reported on, has hit some sectors hard. …

Compute

Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not

December 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 13

There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them pure when money is involved. …

Compute

One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI

November 26, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …

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