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Linux Kernel 5.3 is Here with Mostly Desktop-Centric Improvements
The Linux Kernel 5.3 has arrived and it’s a mixed bag of changes, most of which will benefit desktop users. There are, of course, some improvements and features that could eventually bring to life some...
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Python’s Pallets Project Gets a Much-Needed Infusion of Corporate Cash
Despite the many advantages of using open source software, one of the often-cited downsides is the lack of constant support. If people using the software run into issues and need help, it may not come...
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Percona, PostgreSQL and the Complex Database Landscape
The world of open source databases is only growing more complicated, with a growing number of organizations using multiple databases in multiple environments, according to a new survey by Percona....
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What Is the Biggest Concern Developers Have about Open Source?
Tidelift sponsored this post. In June of 2019, Tidelift and The New Stack jointly fielded a survey of professional software developers. Almost 400 people responded with thoughts about how they use open...
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How Much Time Do Developers Spend Actually Writing Code?
Tidelift sponsored this post. Chris Grams Chris is the head of marketing at Tidelift. Chris has more than 20 years of experience building open source technology companies, including a decade each at...
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Why SAP’s Support for Cloud Foundry Is Indefinite
The Cloud Foundry will continue to serve as a cornerstone of SAP’s cloud offering, both for its massive IT infrastructure as one of the world’s largest software makers and to better support its...
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Open Application Model: A Vendor-Neutral Spec for Modular Apps
A newly announced open source project from Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud, the Open Application Model (OAM) aims to separate the concerns of the developer, application operator and infrastructure...
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Ubuntu 19.10 Promises an Improved Experience for AI/ML Developers
Canonical’s Ubuntu 19.10 Linux distribution is here, and it might well be one of the more exciting releases of the open source platform to come in quite some time. Although there are some UI/UX...
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Linux Kernel Security in the Age of Spectre, Meltdown
The security landscape for Linux has been a different world since the hardware-based attacks of Spectre, Meltdown and others have proliferated, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman, speaking at the last...
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Survey Shows How Developers and Their Employers Measure Good Open Source...
VMware sponsored this post. Is a company a good citizen of open source communities or guilty of “openwashing”? The question gets asked almost anytime a corporation markets a product as open source or...
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Context: All Things Open 2019
VMware sponsored this podcast. On this week’s episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we discuss one of our favorite yearly events, the All Things Open open source conference, held earlier this month...
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Linux Foundation Introduces a Telemetry Policy for All Projects
The Linux Foundation has introduced a new policy around the collection and usage of telemetry data, which may have far-reaching implications given the number of projects under the Linux Foundation’s...
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Delta Lake: A Layer to Ensure Data Quality
One of the Linux Foundation’s newest projects, called Delta Lake, aims to ensure the reliability of data across data lakes at a massive scale. These Big Data systems most commonly are used for machine...
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Open Source Tools: The Good, the Bad and the Truth in Between
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon sponsored this post, in anticipation of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Nov. 18-21 in San Diego. Kara de la Marck Kara is CloudBees Open Source Community Manager. Previously, Kara...
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The Bacon Method: A Plan for Building Communities That Matter
Amanda Brock Amanda provides consultancy to organizations around open source and collaboration and supports legal teams through mentoring. She is the Chair of the Open Source (OS) and Intellectual...
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SaltStack: Plugin-Oriented Programming Could Help Open Source Woes
SaltStack sponsored The New Stack’s news coverage of SaltConf19. Open source projects today, even purportedly successful ones, often stagnate as they become more maintenance-centric. They don’t...
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SaltStack: Enterprise 6.1 Helps to Remove Security Neglect
SaltStack sponsored The New Stack’s news coverage of SaltConf19. Many organizations are experiencing the burden of vulnerability-detection fatigue — and because they lack resources and other...
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The Surprising Truth About How Many Developers Contribute to Open Source
Tidelift sponsored this post. In June of 2019, Tidelift and The New Stack jointly fielded a survey of professional software developers. Almost 400 people responded with thoughts about how they use open...
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How SREs and Automation Can Save Your Security Infrastructure
SaltStack sponsored The New Stack’s news coverage of SaltConf19. Fail fast, fail often. Survival depends on not only becoming a software company but leveraging DevOps so that your organization has...
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Upcoming Linux 5.5 Kernel Improves Live Patching, Scheduling
The Linux 5.5 kernel is to arrive in early 2020, and we’re starting to get a clear picture as to what this kernel is to bring to the open source platform. Although you might not find any deal maker or...
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