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Reading Time: 2 minutes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has officially released on May 7, 2019. It’s more an evolution rater than a revolution: it was a big step from RHEL 5 to 6, and there was a huge leap from 6 to 7. But now the gap is more manageble, also in the upgrade procedure.

Reading Time: 2 minutes On Sunday 3rd March, Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux Kernel 5.0, a new branch of the foundation of the GNU/Linux operating system. Does this new branch mean something special, or it’s just a different way to give a name to the Linux kernel (instead of using 4.22).

Reading Time: 3 minutes April 2018 was the date of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release and now it’s the turn of the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 release. Just after some hours of the big announce that IBM is acquiring Red Hat! Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) minor releases are an aggregation of individual security, enhancement, and bug fix errata. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes document describes the major changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system and its accompanying applications for this minor release, as well as known problems and a complete list of all currently available Technology Previews.

Reading Time: 3 minutes This news is very huge: IBM is acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion ($190 per share in cash). The acquisition is expected to close in the latter half of 2019. Red Hat will remain a distinct unit in IBM, like was when VMware was acquired by EMC, and this is the first positive aspect to keep a proper independence of the company and the products. And the Red Hat unwavering commitment to Open Source innovation can remain unchanged.

Reading Time: 13 minutes This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on how use PowerShell (Core) on Linux system. See also the original post. PowerShell is a command line (CLI) scripting language developed by Microsoft to simplify automation and configuration management, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. Serving as a consistent foundation for hybrid cloud environments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 provides enhanced security and compliance controls, tools to reduce storage costs, and improved usability, as well as further integration with Microsoft Windows infrastructure both on-premises and in public cloud environments like Microsoft Azure.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Linux Kernel 4.15 has been released on 28 Jan 2018 and, thanks to the entire Linux Kernel development team, this release contains the latest code to deal with Meltdown and Spectre issues and minize the related risks. The Kernel is the core code in the operating system managing low level tasks. In the update both vulnerabilities are explicitly addressed.And the interesting aspect is that the performance are not so bad! There are infact three instinct vulnerabilities identified, one Meltdown and two variations of Spectre (known as v1 and v2). Kernel 4.15 actually address only Meltdown and […]

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