Red Hat, Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. The first minor release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 enhances the manageability, security and performance of the operating system underpinning the open hybrid cloud while also adding new capabilities to drive developer innovation.
Source: Light Reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Debuts With Added Developer Tools, Security & Automation
Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux
Microsoft announced at their Ignite conference in Seattle that their Edge web-browser will see a Linux release. This doesn’t come as entirely surprisingly shocking news since Microsoft Edge is powered by Google’s Chromium cross-platform engine and for months have been speculation and requests about Linux support. Microsoft is supporting Edge just not on all recent versions of Windows but also macOS, Android, and iOS as of today. So seeing Linux support in the future is just logical for rounding out their support and the little extra engineering they need to engage in for providing a Linux build of the Chromium-based browser.
Source: Phoronix
Linode Offers Multi-Cloud Object Storage Solution
Ahead of KubeCon, Linode, an independent open cloud provider, announced a new Object Storage product, giving developers a simpler, more efficient way to store and access unstructured data in the cloud. We sat down with Will Smith, Principal Developer at Linode to better understand Linode’s storage offerings.
Source: TFiR
IGEL’s Linux-Based Edge OS to Support Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop
IGEL, provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced from Microsoft Ignite that its Linux-based IGEL OS will support Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop customers, enabling enterprises to centrally manage, control and secure thousands of endpoint devices. As a supporting vendor for Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop value-added partner program “early adopters,” IGEL is among the recommended Microsoft ecosystem partners for customers deploying Windows Virtual Desktop at scale.
Source: PR Newswire
You can now try Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
Earlier this year, at its Build developers conference, Microsoft announced that it was working on a web-based version of its Visual Studio IDE. At the time, Visual Studio Online went into a private preview, open to a select number of developers. Now, at its Ignite conference, the company has opened the service to all developers who want to give it a spin.
Source: TechCrunch
Robocorp announces $5.6M seed to bring open-source option to RPA
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a hot commodity in recent years as it helps automate tedious manual workflows inside large organizations. Robocorp, a San Francisco startup, wants to bring open source and RPA together. Today it announced a $5.6 million seed investment.
Source: TechCrunch
Linux Foundation introduces strict telemetry data collection and usage policy for all its projects
Last week, the Linux Foundation introduced a new policy around the collection and usage of telemetry data. As per this new policy all linux projects before using any telemetry data collection mechanism will have to take permissions from the Linux Foundation and the proposed mechanism will undergo a detailed review.
Source: Packt
Python creator Guido van Rossum quits Dropbox
Guido van Rossum has announced his retirement. The news is the final curtain on the career of the man behind the world’s most popular programming language. Van Rossum is leaving Dropbox, where he has spent the last six years as their Python Charmer in residence, a natural fit for a platform built, in no small part, in Python – the language he created and declared himself ‘Benevolent Dictator for Life’ (BDFL).
Source: The Inquirer
XPS 13 developer edition portfolio up 8X in the States, 6 core and more!
Barton George, the founder of Dell’s Project Sputnik announced that the company is increasing the number of configurations in the developer edition portfolio by a factor of eight. “In total, we now offer 18 different configurations of the 9th generation developer edition, 16 of which are available both online and offline,” said George.
(Source: Barton George)
Why encrypted email service ProtonMail is open-sourcing its mobile apps
At a time when public trust in “big tech” is at an all-time low over countless data breaches and privacy scandals, even companies that specialize in online security are having to go the whole nine yards to convince people that they’re serious about privacy. Encrypted email service ProtonMail this week announced that its iPhone app is now open source, with anyone able to peruse the code on GitHub. Why? Well, thousands of eyes are better than dozens of eyes in terms of spotting flaws in the source code. Moreover, full transparency fosters a higher degree of trust where trust is paramount.
(Source: Venture Beat)