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Fedora / RHEL / IBM: Red Hat's Hummingbird, Oracle Rebrands Products as "AI Database" for Linux, and Fedora Flatpaks Discussed
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The Stack ☛ Red Hat's Hummingbird project to offer Linux container images
The product team tells The Stack why Hummingbird's micro-sized images are the answer to customer demands.
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Oracle AI Database 26ai coming soon for Linux x86-64 on-premises platforms [Ed: LOL at "AI Database"; is there anything they have not yet rebranded for the latest hype and Ponzi-type scam?]
Big news for our on‑premises community: Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x86‑64 will be released in January 2026 as part of the quarterly Release Update (version 23.26.1). Oracle Engineering has been hard at work building a new generation of database that architects AI and Data together, and delivers AI-native data management on all the leading cloud platforms. Oracle AI Database is already available as an Oracle‑managed service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, as well as on Oracle engineered systems. Now that we have delivered Oracle AI Database on all leading clouds, we are making it available for on‑premises Linux x86-64 platforms, giving you even more choice to simplify architectures, accelerate AI‑driven development, and meet your security and performance needs no matter where your data lives.
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LWN ☛ Another Fedora Flatpak discussion
Many distributions provide support out of the proverbial box for Flatpak packages, but Fedora is unusual in that it also provides, and defaults, to its own repository of Fedora-built Flatpaks. This has been a source of confusion for Fedora users, who expect to get the Flatpak built by the original developers and hosted on Flathub. It has also been a source of conflict with upstream projects, because users complain of bugs in Flatpak packages they are not responsible for. The situation has also frustrated some Fedora developers, who would prefer to put Flathub's offerings first. A new complaint that Fedora has apparently used manifests from Flathub to build the packages for Fedora—without giving credit to the original authors—has spurred discussions about Fedora's Flatpaks once again. While no concrete changes are on the table, yet, there may be some movement toward addressing persistent complaints.
Any developer or project can provide a repository with their software in Flatpak format; however, Flathub is the de facto hosting service for Flatpaks these days. Projects that publish Flatpaks expect users to get them from Flathub, and users looking for software would generally expect to get the Flathub version of a Flatpak.