The executive director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, had a conversation with Linux creator Linus Torvalds as the keynote to the Open Source Leadership Summit, which took place mid-February. The 25 minute video is embedded below and explains some Linux background, growth, and development of open source. "Always inspiring and depressing, Mr. … [Read more...]
Resolve duplicate package errors in YUM
Something went awry this weekend while installing updates for my CentOS server. Using the standard 'yum update' command for the yum package manager, there were suddenly a large number of updates to install. I should not have approved them but what do I know compared to the package manager. Foolishly, I proceeded with the updates. Upon its completion, yum began complaining of … [Read more...]
Linus Torvalds TED Talks
If you would like to hear from 'the mind behind Linux', you can watch this Ted Talks interview with Linus Torvalds. He has fundamentally changed computing as so much of the Internet infrastructure runs off of Linux, Git is huge for software development, and other influences he has on the world. Check out the video embedded … [Read more...]
Microsoft will bring SQL Server to Linux in 2017
Microsoft stated today that the company will be extending its SQL Server to Linux. SQL Server 2016 will arrive on Windows Server later this year and is promised to arrive for Linux in mid-2017. We’re excited to announce SQL Server on Linux—another step towards making the industry-leading data management and business analytics platform available for any data, to run any … [Read more...]