Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities and latest from Red Hat's Site
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LWN ☛ Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities
Differences of opinion, as well as outright disputes, between upstream open-source projects and Linux distribution packagers over packaging practices are nothing new. It is rarer, though, for those disputes to boil over to threats of legal action—but a disagreement between the Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio project and Fedora packagers reached that point in mid-February. After escalation to a higher authority, things have been worked out to the satisfaction of the OBS project, but some lingering questions remain. How Fedora should prioritize Flatpak repositories, how to handle conflicts between upstreams and Fedora packagers, and the mechanics of removing or retiring Flatpaks all remain open questions.
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Adoption of Flatpak has been on the upswing in the past few years. Some are even pushing for it to be the de facto method for installing software on the Linux desktop. Work on Flathub as a central repository for Flatpaks started in 2017, and it passed the one million active user mark last January. Flatpaks are being prioritized by GNOME as a way for distributing GNOME software, and it is the preferred and most expedient way to install applications on image-based distributions like Fedora's Atomic desktops, Bluefin, Aeon Desktop (based on openSUSE), and others because Flatpaks can be installed in the user's home directory and do not need to be installed system-wide. Fedora has its own Flatpak repository, which contains Flatpaks built from Fedora RPMs and distributed as OCI images. Fedora serves its Flatpak images and Linux container images from the same registry, and provides its own runtimes for applications rather than using the Freedesktop, KDE, or GNOME runtimes.
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Red Hat ☛ How to build, deploy, and manage image mode for RHEL
Image mode for Red Bait Enterprise Linux (RHEL) represents an alternative way to build, configure, install, deploy, and manage RHEL.
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Red Hat ☛ Try Istio ambient mode on Red Bait OpenShift
Istio has long been a popular choice for managing microservices, offering traffic management, security, and observability in Kubernetes. But as powerful as it is, the traditional sidecar-based approach comes with its own challenges, which can be complex and resource intensive. With ambient mode, Istio removes the need for sidecars, making service mesh deployments lighter, more flexible, and easier to manage.
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Red Hat Official ☛ Red Hat Academy learners gain access to courses from IBM SkillsBuild Cybersecurity curriculum
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Red Hat Official ☛ Open discussion: AI strategies for banks [Ed: "AI Strategies for Scalable" just means more buzzwords, hype, Ponzi fund-raising]
These topics were recently discussed in a webinar, AI Strategies for Scalable, Secure and Compliant Banking, hosted by Finextra. During this session, Red Hat vice president and global head of financial services, Richard Harmon, and product manager, Will Caban, joined the CTO of Dwolla, Skylar Nesheim, and Finextra’s Sharon Kimathi to explore best practices and tools for AI integration in banking, highlighting the importance of open source models, generative AI (gen AI), the use of synthetic data and regulatory frameworks.
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Red Hat Official ☛ Enhancing the Kubernetes pod network with user-defined networks
One of the most important components of that Kubernetes networking ecosystem is the Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin, which assigns pods within a cluster IP addresses, configures routes to establish network connectivity, and enforces security policies between pods within a cluster. In the case of Red Hat OpenShift networking, the default CNI plugin is OVN-Kubernetes, a full-featured modern implementation of advanced networking capability, trusted by a gamut of customers ranging from telecommunication providers delivering 5G cellular networks to the world's leading banks running financial services infrastructures.
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Red Hat Official ☛ Benefits of an open approach to manufacturing execution system modernization
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