Steven Vaughan-Nichols

1 week ago | freerepublic.com | Martin Brinkmann |Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Free RepublicBrowse · SearchGeneral/ChatTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments. End Of 10 [With Support for Windows 10 ending in October of 2025, this is a website encouraging collaboration to help those leaving Windows 10 for Linux]Endof10 ^ | 5/6/2025 | Endof10.orgPosted on by ransomnote[H/T openurmind]PlacesEventsDIY InstallSupport for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

1 week ago | zdnet.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

IBMWhen you think of mainframes, you probably think of spinning tape drives, reams of computer cards, and text-only, green-on-black 3270 terminals. IBM's latest mainframe, the LinuxONE Emperor 5, is not your grandpa's mainframeThe fifth generation of its flagship LinuxONE platform, the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5, is engineered to deliver unprecedented levels of security, cost-efficiency, and AI acceleration for mission-critical enterprise workloads.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

7 hours agoMessaging app used by Trump official suspends operations after reported hackAn encrypted messaging app that President Donald Trump's then-national security advisor Mike Waltz used during a Cabinet meeting last week has …14 hours agoHidden Apple Maps feature can make your life a lot easier — here's how to find itWhile most of us are pretty familiar with Apple Maps at this point, hidden features pop up every now and then.

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Last month, Synadia, the primary maintainer of the NATS messaging system, tried to withdraw NATS from the open source governance of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Its motive was to try to profit from NATS by switching NATS’ open source Apache 2 license to the Business Source License (BSL), even though Synadia had previously donated NATS to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2018.

1 week ago | zdnet.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Rowan Trollope, chief executive officer of Redis David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesOver the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant problem with this attempt to squeeze more money from their formerly open-source programs: it doesn't work. Redis, the widely used in-memory key-value database, appears to have figured this out.