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Article: Equinix Expanding Capabilities of Its Open Source Bare Metal Automation Platform Tinkerbell

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Equinix Expanding Capabilities of Its Open Source Bare Metal Automation Platform Tinkerbell

More enterprises are said to be taking interest in the platform now that it’s been open sourced as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project. Here’s a company name you didn’t use to hear in conjunction with open source software release cycles but now increasingly will: Equinix.

When the colocation giant acquired Packet, a bare metal cloud provider, last year, the crown jewel was Packet’s infrastructure automation technology, which made the experience of provisioning bare metal servers similar to that of provisioning VMs in a public cloud.

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Article: AlmaLinux, the $1M Drop-In CentOs Replacement, Is Out and Bound for Data Centers

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AlmaLinux, the $1M Drop-In CentOs Replacement, Is Out and Bound for Data Centers

Its creator, CloudLinux, built the distribution at warp speed, racing to fill the void left by Red Hat’s EOL announcement for CentOS. AlmaLinux, designed as a drop-in replacement for CentOS 8, is headed for data centers.

The company behind the new Linux distro, CloudLinux, announced general availability of the first stable release of AlmaLinux OS in a virtual event Tuesday. It was conceived just this past December, immediately after Red Hat’s announcement that it was killing CentOS.

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Article: Lyft, Spotify, Others Form Open Source Mobile-App Infrastructure Group

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Lyft, Spotify, Others Form Open Source Mobile-App Infrastructure Group

The new Mobile Native Foundation is meant to help mobile-first software companies avoid writing infrastructure code that does the same things.

The Linux Foundation these days seems to spawn baby foundations faster than rabbits make baby bunnies. Earlier this month it announced yet another project that will operate under its umbrella: the Mobile Native Foundation.

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Article: Open Source 101: Go Online & Find Your Way Around Open Source

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Open Source 101: Go Online & Find Your Way Around Open Source

This five-year-old event, which played to small regional audiences in pre-COVID times, is hosted by the people behind All Things Open, one of the largest open source conferences on the East Coast. While All Things Open is targeted at folks who work in the deepest levels of open source, Open Source 101 is designed for folks who are just getting their feet wet in the open source ecosphere.

“A lot of the attendees at open source 101 are early career technologists,” said Todd Lewis, the founder and chairperson for both events.

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Article: Digital Data Helps Public Health Departments Keep Tabs on, Tackle the Flu

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Digital Data Helps Public Health Departments Keep Tabs on, Tackle the Flu

No one needs a reminder that this flu season was one of the worst in recent years. Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control suggests it may have been worse than the 2009 season, when the swine flu pandemic strain swept the country.

The good news, however, is that digital data is helping researchers and public health organizations provide more timely predictions about the spread of the flu and assessments of seasons in progress. The advantage is that public health officials no longer have to wait for a Monday-morning quarterback approach to flu season, but can stay on top of its spread as it happens.

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