Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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Lenovo Plays The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game, In Systems
It has been nearly four decades since the Chinese Academy of Sciences handed Liu Chuanzhi and Danny Lui $25,000 to help found Legend, originally a maker of TV sets that, in the wake of the success of the IBM PC and the Apple II computer, decided maybe becoming a maker of PCs was a better idea.
And it has been thirty years since Legend, which was eventually renamed Lenovo, tipped its PCs on their side and helped create the X86 server market as we know it. It has been 17 years since Lenovo bought the PC business from IBM and eight years since Lenovo bought the Motorola smartphone business from Google and the System x X86 server business from IBM. The latter isolated Big Blue in its System z and Power Systems moats, and has set Lenovo on a course to be one of the largest makers of systems in the world.
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Find errors in packages through mass builds | Red Hat Developer
Even after thorough unit testing on both applications and their library dependencies, builds often go wrong and turn up hidden errors. This article introduces a new tool, the Mass Prebuilder (MPB), that automates builds on enormous numbers of reverse dependencies to find problems that are not caught through package testing.
Let's look at a simple example. Roughly 1,200 packages in Red Hat-based distributions depend on GNU Autoconf. Knowing all of the packages by heart is unlikely, building them manually would take ages, and judging whether a failure is due to a change in GNU Autoconf is very difficult. A job for the Mass Prebuilder!
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Edge solutions in rail transportation deliver efficiencies, security and flexibility with open source solutions
Railway systems have been around for centuries and serve as a highly cost-effective method for freight delivery and rail is growing in popularity among passengers. Rail systems with a significant legacy operational technology (OT) footprint are just embarking on the digital transformation journey.
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6 cloud-native development challenges to avoid
If your teams have begun developing cloud-native applications, how can you avoid common challenges when expanding your development strategy?
Setting clear goals – with milestones along the way – is essential to a successful cloud-native development journey. We interviewed former bankers, now Red Hat employees, for their insights on how to sidestep common roadblocks.
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Retaining IT talent: 5 tips for better training opportunities [Ed: IBM cites Gartner (corrupt) and spreads a lie: "If the Great Resignation has taught us anything"... there's no such thing, IBM is laying off lots of staff]
If the Great Resignation has taught us anything, it should be that when employees don’t see a future at your company, they will walk. According to a 2021 survey from Gartner, just 29 percent of IT workers worldwide intend to stay in their current roles over the next year.