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Review: RHEL 7 lands with a jolt
One of the hallmarks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is that it overwhelmingly favors stability over currency. As such, RHEL generally ships with packages and frameworks that are years behind the current releases.
The top iOS 8 features for business users
When it shows up in the coming weeks, Apple's iOS 8 is set to bring several new features, including its HealthKit and HomeKit platforms, to the iPhone and iPad.
Support letdowns tarnish Apple's sterling quality
A petition has been circulating for nine months demanding that Apple fix what seems to be a defect in its 2011 Mac
Container convergence: Docker, VMware, and Google team up
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Famo.us talks big, but jQuery Foundation isn't worried
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Free beer! Now Amazon has cloud developers' attention
You know the hunt for developers is getting tough when free beer enters the equation. Amazon.com will reopen a "pop-up loft" in downtown San Francisco this fall to give developers a place to learn more about Amazon Web Services.
Docker founder Solomon Hykes explains Docker
Solomon Hykes is pretty sure you only know two things about Docker: First, it uses Linux containers, and second, the Internet won't shut up about it. In the video below, Hykes gives a talk at LinuxCon to explain exactly what Docker is and the philosophy behind it.
Review: RHEL 7 anchors enterprise-focused ecosystem
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is more proof that operating systems aren't dead, they're becoming vessels for containerized applications. RHEL 7 performed well in our testing, but it's worth noting that this no longer just a simple OS it's an increasingly abstracted component in the larger Red Hat ecosystem.
Although Red Hat took a long time between the RHEL 6 and 7 releases, during that period they've been sending numerous updates poised towards stable infrastructure.
New Windows coming in late September -- but which one?
It looks like we're due for a preview of Windows sometime in late September.
The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far)
Choose your side on the Linux divide
Last week I posted about the schism brewing over systemd and the curiously fast adoption of this massive change to many Linux distributions.
The beginner's guide to Docker
Docker has revolutionized application virtualization. This open source project enables users to package any application in a lightweight, portable container so that installing a server-side Linux app almost as easy as installing a mobile app -- from the command line, no less. Docker has caught on in record time, garnering support from Red Hat, Google, Microsoft, and more shortly after it burst onto the scene.
In this Deep Dive, InfoWorld offers a dose of Docker wisdom:
JXCore's new trick: Convert Node.js projects into self-running apps
JXCore, a fork of Node.js, garnered attention for the intriguing way it boosts Node performance by adding a novel multithreading mech
Our 10 favorite techie Simpsons episodes and moments
Software testers balk at ISO 29119 standards proposal
Efforts by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) to standardize software testing are receiving some pushback, with an online petition launched to stop the plan.
Why developers should get excited about Java 9
With work moving forward on the next edition of standard Java, developers can start looking forward to what they will get with the planned upgrade.
