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Editor’s note: This article by Joe Casad originally appeared in the Rocky Linux Focus Guide, published by Admin Network & Security magazine. Rocky Linux is new, but it draws from a long history of community-minded volunteers focused on keeping a free Linux option in the enterprise space. Rocky founder Greg Kurtzer tells the story. Tell…
The Samba project makes it possible to share directories and even printers across a network. Technically speaking, Samba is a suite of tools, created in 1992, to provide file and print services for clients that use the SMB/CIFS protocol. For any business that needs to give users and even teams access to shared resources on…
What is the best home for an open source project? The answer is changing. Heather Meeker, a lawyer in private practice specializing in open source software licensing and advisor to the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF), recently penned an article in Open Source Watch on this very subject. In the article, Heather argues that the…
It is possible to configure your environment to start Apptainer (with arbitrary commands and options/arguments) in a Delve debugging session and then attach to the running server with VSCode. This gives you the ability to set break points, step in/out/over lines of code and functions, interrogate variables during runtime, etc. But it’s a little tricky…
One of the things we love most about Linux is how flexible it is. Very often, it’s possible to get things done with the pre-installed software. And on the occasion you don’t have what you need to finish a task, it’s often a quick sudo dnf install command away. One great example of the flexibility…
As the demand for stable, reliable, and secure enterprise-grade operating systems continues to rise, Rocky Linux has emerged as a top contender among community-driven Linux distros. Now the fastest-growing Enterprise Linux distribution, Rocky Linux is widely adopted in enterprise, cloud, hyperscale, and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. In this post, we’ll explore the reasons why…
We get many questions, both at CIQ and in the community at large, about Rocky Linux security practices, especially when it comes to particular vulnerabilities (CVEs) on a particular installed system or set of systems. This blog post will serve as a guide, with many links and resources to help answer those questions. RHEL /…
We have another important announcement for anyone in the open source enterprise software community! The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) has announced the inaugural projects and project boards that will initiate the work of the Foundation. Rocky Linux and Peridot, the officially hosted projects, were named and their respective project boards were elected on January…
NoSQL databases are optimized for applications and use cases that require very large amounts of unstructured data with low latency and flexible data models. Because they are easily scalable and offer high availability, these types of databases are often used for real-time web applications and services that rely on big data. NoSQL databases are used…
The case of the missing GPU The other day I was preparing a GPU demo on the cloud service Vultr, and I ran into some problems. After going down a few rabbit holes, I found that the issue was one I had run into and fixed in a different context 5 or 6 years ago! …
I attended my first ASSESS Congress in 2022 to help simulation users connect the dots of HPC solutions, yet I was surprised at how this community helped me to realize that there were even more dots that I needed to connect myself. ASSESS stands for Analysis, Simulation & Systems Engineering Software Strategies. The initiative’s goals…
Editor’s note: This article by Joe Casad originally appeared in the Rocky Linux Focus Guide, published by Admin Network & Security magazine. When Red Hat announced that it would stop supporting CentOS as a free Linux distro based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the whole Linux IT world had to scramble, but nowhere was…