Red Hat/IBM: Flathub, Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, and Dell
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Flathub, the Linux desktop app store, is growing up
Rob McQueen, the GNOME Foundation Board President, looked into the future of Flathub, the Flatpak-based Linux desktop app, and he likes what he sees. McQueen reports Flathub has seen strong growth and ongoing progress.
Flathub now offers over 2,000 apps from over 1,500 GitHub collaborators. It's now averaging 700,000 app downloads per day, with 898 million HTTP requests totaling 88.3 TeraBytes served by its Content Delivery Network (CDN) every day. This growth is due, in part, to Flathub's ability to help developers publish their work in a way that makes it easy for people to discover, download, install, and use. And, lest we forget, eventually pay for them.
Flathub's success comes despite the challenges that have historically held back the mainstream growth and acceptance of desktop Linux. These problems include packaging difficulties for app developers that have made it hard for people to find, install, and use their applications. Flathub solves this by providing a common store and package platform to help users quickly discover and install applications.
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Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Elects Project Boards for Rocky Linux, Peridot
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today announced the inaugural projects and project boards that will initiate the work of the foundation. The officially hosted projects—Rocky Linux and Peridot—were named and respective project boards were elected on January 16 at the first annual meeting of the newly elected RESF board.
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Dell and Red Hat team up to evolve open telecom networks
Ensuring reliability in the telecom field continues to be top of mind, especially in the wake of a global pandemic.