Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, and Ross Mauri, general manager of IBM Z and LinuxONE, jointly hosted an event for senior IT financial services executives. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote that during the event the two companies told the managers about the advantages of running financial services on mainframe cloud systems based on Ubuntu Linux. Why? After all, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) runs just as well on the Z series as Ubuntu Linux. In an interview, Shuttleworth explained, “Customers want the security of the mainframe and the flexibility of Ubuntu. Some ask for Ubuntu and Z and IBM gives them that option.” (ZDNet)
Open Source in VMware Tanzu
VMware today announced that the company is moving several of its key cloud native open source projects to a new GitHub organization at: github.com/vmware-tanzu. Announced at the recent VMworld, Tanzu is a new overarching portfolio of projects, products, and services for building, running, and managing modern applications and infrastructure. Joe Beda, a Principal Engineer at VMware, wrote in a blog post, “We’ll be moving three key projects to this new GitHub organization right away: Velero, Sonobuoy, and Octant. Other key cloud native projects will be moved over time.” (Source: VMware)
A New Linux Memory Controller Promises to Save Lots of RAM
Roman Gushchin, a member of Facebook’s Linux kernel engineering team, has proposed a brand new slab memory controller for the Linux kernel. This new slab memory controller promises to provide a much-improved memory utilization between multiple memory cgroups, via sharing slab pages. (TNS)
Streamlit launches open source machine learning application development framework
Streamlit, a new machine learning startup from industry veterans, who worked at GoogleX and Zoox, launched today with a $6 million seed investment and a flexible new open source tool to make it easier for machine learning engineers to create custom applications to interact with the data in their models. (TechCrunch)
What is YAML?
Originally YAML stood for Yet Another Markup Language; it was renamed to read YAML Ain’t Markup Language to make it clear that unlike SGML and HTML that are languages for documents, it’s designed for data. Those are the same kinds of things you’d do with XML – but unlike XML or JSON, it’s designed to be a format that humans can read and write easily, which is why projects like Ansible picked it over other options. The YAML web site is easy to read – and it’s also valid YAML code.
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Docker is in deep trouble
Docker, the technology, is the poster child for containers. But it appears Docker, the business, is in trouble. In a leaked memo, Docker CEO Rob Bearden praised workers — despite the “uncertainty [which] brings with it significant challenges” and “persevering in spite of the lack of clarity we’ve had these past few weeks.” (ZDNet)
Leave GNOME alone: This patent troll is asking for trouble
Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPI) suing the GNOME Foundation for violating its “wireless image distribution system and method patent” (US Patent No. 9,936,086) doesn’t make much sense. But when has that ever stopped a patent troll? The GNOME application in question, Shotwell, is a personal photo manager. Its functionality, which has Rothschild all hot and bothered, is that — like all other end-user photo programs — it can import and organize pictures. For relief, Rothschild demands that either this functionality be removed or the company be awarded a “running royalty from the time of judgment going forward.” (Source: ZDNet)
AWS Joins the .NET Foundation
AWS is joining the .NET Foundation as a corporate sponsor. AWS has a long-standing commitment to .NET, with a decade of experience running Microsoft Windows and .NET on AWS. Joining the .NET Foundation is a natural step for us to further invest and participate in this community. (Source: Amazon)
You can’t open-source license morality
Chef developers recently pressured Chef Software into ending their contract with ICE. What started this was open-source developer Seth Vargo pulling his open-source project, Chef Sugar, from the Chef DevOps program. This has lead to people, such as Coraline Ada Ehmke, best known for her Contributor Covenant, which was adopted by Linux, to propose an open-source license that requires its users to act morally. (Source: ZDNet)
CNTT’s Initial NFVi Release Targets OpenStack
The Linux Foundation’s LF Networking group and industry trade association GSMA unveiled the first data release for their Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT). This initial tranche includes a common reference model and the first reference architecture. (SDX Central)