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Editor’s note: A few moments ago, Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst shared this email with Red Hat associates. A few minutes ago, we announced that Red Hat has signed an agreement to combine forces with IBM in the largest software company acquisition to date. Red Hat will remain a distinct unit in IBM.Tomorrow…
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS, Inc., an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions, for a purchase price of $250 million, subject to certain adjustments at closing that…
IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future
Red Hat Satellite is a complex offering and we wanted to spend some time talking about the underlying databases that make Satellite work as well as some upcoming changes to this underlying database structure that you should be aware of.
In August 2022, Dan Walsh (one of the authors of this article) moved out of his role as container runtimes architect at Red Hat to architect for the Red Hat ...
So you've heard of this thing called cgroups, and you are interested in finding out more. Perhaps you caught mention of it while listening to a talk abou...
L1 Terminal Fault/Foreshadow explained in ~three minutesFor a more detailed technical view of L1 Terminal Fault, please see this deeper dive with Jon Masters.How we got here: a brief history of modern microprocessor cachesModern computer microprocessors are complex machines, filled with many optimizations designed to…
Back in March 2021, I wrote about how I replaced Docker with Podman on a Mac using VirtualBox and Vagrant after an old version of podman machine became depre...
Optimize virtual memory management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Learn how to configure swap for optimal performance
Open source software is, in fact, eating the world. It is a de facto model for innovation, and technology as we know it would look vastly different without it. On a few occasions, over the past several years, software industry observers have asked whether there will ever be another Red Hat. Others have speculated that…
Contribute to CNCF: Simplify application management with Red Hat's Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, and more
Today Red Hat is thrilled to announce our contribution of etcd, an open source project that is a key component of Kubernetes, and its acceptance into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a vendor-neutral foundation housed under The Linux Foundation to drive the adoption of cloud native systems.The etcd…
Red Hat shares it's response to the war in Ukraine and how it is supporting its associates.
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
Red Hat introduces the open sourcing of Project Quay, the upstream project representing the code that powers Red Hat Quay and Quay.io.
Upgrade CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to supported systems with Red Hat's in-place solutions
To help us celebrate three decades of open source innovation, State of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper declared March 26, 2023, as Red Hat Day across North Carolina.
Today, we announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, a popular IT automation tool launched in early 2013. Like in any acquisition, customers and partners will likely have a number of questions, so let me get straight to the point and cover the top three questions I anticipate: Why an IT automation solution?…
Discover Fedora 42 Beta: New AI-focused features for modern application development
This series of articles will explore some of my favorite Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 capabilities that are enabled by systemd. Thus, this series assume...
More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.
One of the best features of Podman is how well it works with systemd. Podman uses the standard fork/exec model, which is easily adaptable to the systemd syst...
Introducing new no-cost RHEL programs for small production deployments and enterprise development teams.
Today, Red Hat has introduced a new Linux development model into the CentOS community: CentOS Stream, a developer-forward, faster-moving distribution that helps community members, partners and others take full advantage of open innovation.
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the latest major release of the company's flagship platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 not only lays the foundation for the open hybrid cloud and serves enterprise…
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the first steps for integrating CoreOS Tectonic, Quay, and Container Linux with Red Hat’s robust container and Kubernetes-based solutions portfolio. Container application platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container…
Today marks a milestone for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the addition of a new architecture to our list of fully supported platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM is a part of our multi-architecture strategy and the culmination of a multi-year collaboration with the upstream community and our silicon and hardware…
The newly released Podman 4.0 includes the new podman image scp command, a useful command to help you manage and transfer container images.
Linux containers, Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, blockchain and too many other technical breakthroughs to list all share a common component - Linux, the same workhorse that has driven mission-critical, production systems for nearly two decades. Today, we’re offering a vision of a Linux foundation to power the…