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Red Hat and Fedora: Cloudwashing, Making a Users Inventory, Ousting Yum and in Come Proprietary Software Blobs to Flathub

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 29th of January 2019 05:17:31 PM
  • Open Outlook: Cloud

    Hybrid cloud is a new reality for IT.  While the benefits of this model are many, I believe that organizations should embrace hybrid cloud because it can give them more choice.  Until recently, our choices to deliver solutions were primarily mutually exclusive of one another -- will I build the app in house on my own?  Will I outsource the infrastructure to a service provider? Will I buy a SaaS based app? Will I just put everything in the public cloud? While each of these choices had their own merits, orchestrating them can be difficult.  The platform we've advanced, the Red Hat OpenShift platform, is designed to allow for more choice in how to leverage benefits of a hybrid multi-cloud world.  

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    Rather than relying upon a unique identifier that is transmitted to the Fedora update servers, the revised proposal is focusing upon just transmitting the "variant" (indicating if you are running Fedora Workstation or one of the other spins) and then a new "countme" variable. That countme variable would be managed client-side and under current thinking would increment weekly to reflect the age of the Fedora system: that would allow Fedora to see the age of the systems, new vs. updating installs to new releases, the number of users just running in Docker / cloud / other short-lived instances, and other metrics but without relying upon a per-system UUID.

  • Fedora 30 Might Finish Removing The Old Yum Package Manager

    Yum was supposed to be removed from Fedora 29 in favor of the modern DNF package manager that is largely compatible with Yum commands of the past. But its retirement was delayed due to the request being late in the cycle and some infrastructure like Koji and Pungi having not finished the migration to DNF interfaces. Yum's retirement might come for Fedora 30 but it could be too late.

    The change proposal was posted today to retire Yum 3. It's largely the same proposal as what was suggested for Fedora 29 and largely to no surprise since DNF as the default package manager has been working out well.

  • Flathub Adds WPS Office For Easy Linux Installation And Update

    Yet another important application has been added to Flathub, a service for hosting and distributing Flatpak applications: WPS Office, making it even easier to install and update on Linux.

    WPS Office is an office suite for Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, that includes three components: WPS Writer, WPS Presentation and WPS Spreadsheet. The personal basic version is free to use (but not open source software), with a professional version being available for a subscription fee.

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