Red Hat Excuses, Puff Pieces, and Java Offerings
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Behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s dropping of LibreOffice
In an event that has surprised many, Red Hat, one of the largest open-source software companies, has announced it’s dropping LibreOffice from its desktop operating system,Red Hat Linux, or more accurately, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). It’s assumed that users of LibreOffice — a drop-in replacement for the ubiquitous Microsoft Office — will, if an office suite is needed, deploy the software in containerized form, such as in a Flatpak.
The company will continue to support the package for the lifetime of support agreements on RHEL 7, 8, and 9.
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Red Hat upgrades OpenStack Platform to support modern network deployments [Ed: Lacking much-needed disclosure that Red Hat pays this site to produce puff pieces about itself]
Enterprise Linux company Red Hat Inc. today announced the upcoming launch of its newest version of OpenStack. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 will be released in the coming weeks, with new management and operations tools designed to enhance its flexibility, efficiency and security and improve its usefulness at the network edge. -
How to monitor Quarkus native executables with JFR
This article will explain how to profile and monitor Quarkus native executables using JDK Flight Recorder (JFR). It will provide a step-by-step guide through building, running, and inspecting a Quarkus-native executable with JFR. You will also learn about the current features available, depending on your GraalVM/Mandrel version and how you can start using them.
This article is meant for those already somewhat familiar with Quarkus native executables and who want to know the extent of JFR support in native mode and how to enable it.
To get the most out of this article, you should already be familiar with building Quarkus native applications. If you're just getting started, you can learn how to build Quarkus Java applications and Quarkus native applications. This article will walk you through everything from scratch. But we recommend reading the previous two articles, Improvements to Native Image JFR support in GraalVM for JDK 20 and Implementing JDK Flight Recorder support for GraalVM Native Image.
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Improvements to Native Image JFR support in GraalVM for JDK 20
This article describes the improvements to the Native Image JFR support in GraalVM JDK 20. This is a follow up to a previous article's section, Implementing JDK Flight Recorder support for GraalVM Native Image. JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is a powerful tool that assists the profiling, debugging, and monitoring of Java applications. We will discuss the new developments available in GraalVM for JDK 17 and JDK 20.