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Mint 22.2 “Zara”, 22.1 “Xia”, Debian 13.0, 13.1, Fedora 42, and more now available
admin October 23rd, 2025
Posted In: Debian, Fedora, Linux, Mint, NEW, News, Open Source, Operating Systems, Technology
Tags: Debian, fedora, Latest OS, linux, Mint, Open Source, ubuntu
Debian 12.9, Mint 22.1, Fedora 41, more
As always, the latest releases are available to be installed, such as Linux Mint 22.1 (and of course 22.0), Debian Stable 12.9, of course Ubuntu LTS 24.04.1 (and 24.10), Fedora 41, Centos 10, and more – ask us for your favorite if you don’t see it listed.
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joe January 28th, 2025
Posted In: Debian, Fedora, Linux, Mint, Open Source, Operating Systems, Technology
Open-Washing AI and the REAL Open AI Definition
I saw both of these within 24 hours –
“Open-Washing” is a thing these days, many companies are trying to spin their AI offerings as “Open”, and piggyback on the brand image of Open Source, when actually they’re really not that open. Some even have it in their name – eg, “Open AI”, which isn’t…
In response, the Open Source Initiative released the OSAID “Open Source AI Definition” – Which we have endorsed. More on that in our next post, stay tuned…
Here’s the article, from yesterday: The illusion of AI openness
joe December 20th, 2024
Posted In: AI, Open Source, Reviews, Technology
Hardware Servers Less than 1/10th the cost of Cloud
We’ve known this since the beginning of when the “Cloud” momentum started in the marketplace a decade or two ago, but it’s always refreshing to see the media coverage supporting this –
DHH (Ruby on Rails Creator, Basecamp, 37Signals Founder) corroborates it:
37Signals CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million • The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/cloud_repatration_savings_calculated_basecamp/
joe December 8th, 2024
Posted In: News, servers, Technology
Tags: Cloud, DHH, TheRegister
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9 (RHEL 9) Released & Available With eRacks Systems!
Released in 17th May 2022, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9 helps users innovate, optimize, protect, and trust their traditional and modern workloads across their datacenter, cloud, and edge environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux remains an economic driver, with the overall Red Hat Enterprise Linux footprint forecast to touch more than $13 trillion of the global economy in 2022. RHEL 9 is now available with the following major features with all of the systems in eRacks.
Enhanced web console performance metrics
This feature makes it easy for the system admin and operation team to monitor and identify performance metrics. It allows quick report generation and presentation with one click.
Kernel live patching
It is one of the best features for managing kernel update, RHEL 9 provide the ability to manage kernel patching with a cockpit web console.
Streamlined image building
RHEL 9 comes with various improvements like an image builder that gives the ability to build RHEL8 and RHEL 9 images through a single build node. This feature is very useful for the developer community.
Improved container development
RHEL 9 ships launch with upgraded version podman with new features and advanced technology.
Link Time Optimization
It allows speeding up various applications and running services as well as source code inspection at the time of compilation.
Application Updates
You can find all application releases with new versions which available in RHEL8 such as newer versions available of Perl, python, ruby, git, apache, Nginx, MySQL, MariaDB, and more.
Enhanced security
- Smart card authentication via the web console.
- Additional SELinux security profiles.
- Detailed SSSD Logging and search capabilities.
- Integrated OpenSSL 3.
- Integrity Measurement Architecture allows you to dynamically verify the integrity of the OS.
- The SSH root password is now disabled by default.
Support for Newer Versions of Programming Languages
- RHEL 9.0 offers the following new versions of dynamic programming languages:
- PHP 8.0
- Node.JS 16
- Perl 5.32
- Python 3.9
- Ruby 3.0
Download Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9 (RHEL 9) for Free.
To download RHEL 9. Check out the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product page.
Or you can get the hassle free Pre-Installed Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9 (RHEL 9) or your preferred versions or any of your preferable Open-Source Distribution by purchasing any systems from eRacks Systems’ Store.
Asif Raihan May 30th, 2022
Posted In: Linux, New products, Open Source, Operating Systems, servers, Technology
Tags: linux, New products, Open Source, operating system, Red Hat, Releases, upgrade