• Red Hat, DataTaag to discuss open source tech and digital transformation

  Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions along with Data TAAG Technologies is set to host a workshop focused on digital transformation.

  The event will be held on 20th September at the Palazzo Versace, Dubai.

  According to both companies, the event will look into best practices and innovations on how organisations today can optimise open source technologies in their digital transformation journey.

• Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership of the Identity Management Solution

  One of the main questions people ask when they hear about the IdM solution is: Is Identity Management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux free? It is. Identity Management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a component of the platform and not a separately licensable product. What does this mean? This means that you can install IdM on any Red Hat Enterprise Linux server system with a valid subscription and get support from Red Hat.

• Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. Raises Position in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)

• Red Hat (RHT): Expecting Momentum To Continue - Stifel

• Share Activity Lifted for Red Hat Inc (RHT) in Session

• Red Hat Inc (RHT), and Dollar Tree Inc (DLTR) Seeing Increased Action in Session

To give you all some background, Pipewire is the latest creation of GStreamer co-creator Wim Taymans. The original reason it was created was that we realized that as desktop applications would be moving towards primarly being shipped as containerized Flatpaks we would need something for video similar to what PulseAudio was doing for Audio. As part of his job here at Red Hat Wim had already been contributing to PulseAudio for a while, including implementing a new security model for PulseAudio to ensure we could securely have containerized applications output sound through PulseAudio. So he set out to write Pipewire, although initially the name he used was PulseVideo. As he was working on figuring out the core design of PipeWire he came to the conclusion that designing Pipewire to just be able to do video would be a mistake as a major challenge he was familiar with working on GStreamer was how to ensure perfect audio and video syncronisation. If both audio and video could be routed through the same media daemon then ensuring audio and video worked well together would be a lot simpler and frameworks such as GStreamer would need to do a lot less heavy lifting to make it work. So just before we starting sharing the code publicaly we renamed the project to Pinos, named after Pinos de Alhaurín, a small town close to where Wim is living in southern Spain. In retrospect Pinos was probably not the worlds best name

Also: Bodhi 2.11.0 released

• Oracle Now Supports Btrfs RAID5/6 On Their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel

  Besides incorporating the RHEL 7.4 changes from Red Hat into their recent Oracle Linux update, their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) has received a few updates of its own.

  A Phoronix reader wrote in this morning to point out that Oracle is now supporting RAID 5/6 modes on Oracle Linux with UEK. It was just with Linux 4.12 that RAID 5/6 support was fixed or at least mostly, and that has now been backported to the Oracle Linux 7 Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. The Btrfs RAID5 and RAID6 modes were previously considered in bad shape.

• Texinfo 6.5 released

  We have released version 6.5 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format.

• GCC 5.5 Status Report (2017-09-16)

• GCC 5.5 Will Come Before Killing Off GCC5

  Red Hat's Jakub Jelinek has announced that GCC 5.5 will be released soon.

  Jakub is planning to do a release candidate of GCC 5.5 at the end of next week followed by the official release. This will mark the end of the GCC 5 series.

• Lucrative Stocks in today’s market: Red Hat, Inc. : RHT

• Capital Counsel LLC NY Has $58.70 Million Stake in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)

• Red Hat Inc (RHT) Price Lingering Above the Cloud

• MACD in Focus: Red Hat Inc (RHT)

• Experimenting with a Personal Fedora Atomic and OpenShift Origin Server

  Last weekend I decided to play around with my old workstation that’s just been sitting around powered off for years now, mostly replaced by a RaspBerry Pi3 which handles most of my home network and storage. The workstation is from around 2009, isn’t particularly fast but has 6GB of RAM and doesn’t consume much power if you yank the video card. I have a small Rails 4 app running as a backend for one of my Android pet projects, and thought it might be fun to repurpose this machine to host it on OpenShift.

  I really don’t want to have to think about upgrades much, CentOS would then be a pretty good option but I thought it would be better to get a taste of what’s been going on with Project Atomic, a minimal OS just for running containers, which allows you to upgrade and rollback the whole OS filesystem as if you were using git.

• Put Everything on Fire and Make Friends with the Robots

  From 29 August to 1 September 2017 Fedora contributors from all over the world flocked to Hyannis, Massachusetts to meet and work on improving Fedora. I was lucky to be part of it.

• Test Days: Internationalization (i18n) features for Fedora 27

• PHP version 7.0.24RC1 and 7.1.10RC1

• Website and portfolio design

• Internationalization Track at Flock 2017

• Downloading RHEL 7 ISOs for free

  A year and a half ago, frighteningly close to 1st April, Red Hat announced the availability of a gratis, self-supported, developer-only subscription for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a series of other products. Simply put, if you went to developers.redhat.com, created an account and clicked a few buttons, you could download a RHEL ISO without paying anything to anybody. For the past few months, I have been investigating whether we can leverage this to do something exciting in Fedora Workstation. Particularly for those who might be building applications on Fedora that would eventually be deployed on RHEL.

• Red Hat Graphics team looking for another engineer

• Red Hat Inc (RHT): What Are The Future Prospects?

• The Concentrated Portfolio - August Update

• Is Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) The Right Stock For Heady Investors?

• PSA: If you had dnf-automatic enabled and updated to Fedora 26, it probably stopped working

  Fedora 26 included a jump from DNF 1.x to DNF 2.x. It seems that DNF 2.x came with a poorly-documented change to the implementation of dnf-automatic, the tool it provides for automatically notifying of, downloading and/or installing updates.

• COPR for Xfce - 4.13 (update)

  I had written about my COPR earlier [0]. For sometime, I had not been updating it. Now, the COPR is up-to-date again.

  The COPR xfce-414 can be enabled on Fedora 25+ using the command below...

• Flock 2017@Cape Cod

  It was another exciting year for me and another exciting conference to attend to give my talk about Zanata - Flock @ Cape Cod from 29-August to 1-Sept.

• Flock 2017

• Flock 2017: trip report

• Flock 2017 event report

• Flock 2017 event

• Attended Flock 2017

• My First Flock: Hyannis, Massachussetts

• Flock 2017 was awesome!

• Fedora User Wiki

• F26-20170912 updated isos released