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Red Hat
Company blog · redhat.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Red Hat is the company blog at redhat.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2007, 788 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,263 times, most often “Podman now supports Docker Compose natively”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.
Most-linked posts?
- Podman now supports Docker Compose natively18 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2021-02-11
- Command Line Heroes Podcast11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2018-01-20
- Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2023-06-26
- Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet (2023)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-11-14
- Final nail in the coffin of Red Hat rebuilds?6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-06-21
- The pros and cons of the Strangler architecture pattern6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-08-25
- Mastering systemd: Securing and sandboxing applications and services6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-04-27
- Java: RedHat X IBM Annoucement6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-02-06
- Red Hat Universal Base Image5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-05-07
- /legal/patent_policy.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-03-02
What Hacker News says?
Here is a longer explainer: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-open-source-upstream
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on “Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise”Submitted IBM acquires Red Hat as a story · 2611 points
HN discussionRedHat blog says no versions of RHEL are affected. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-...
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on “Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise”Submitted Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS as a story · 997 points
HN discussionRHEL no, Fedora 41 and Rawhide yes. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-... https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00...
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on “Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise”Submitted IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B as a story · 552 points
HN discussionThe part about UEFI? https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bios-uefi
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on “CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops”Submitted Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend as a story · 420 points
HN discussion> Second quarter total revenue of $823 million, up 14% year-over-year, or 14% in constant currency ARR around $3.3 billion. I think they have sold the company very cheap. Source - https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-repor...
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups as a story · 343 points
HN discussionIBM has been historically a Linux contributor. Eclipse, their open source IDE, opened the other to Java and other programming languages in the OS. And Power processors supported Linux early on. From that perspective to purchase Red Hat makes sense. It makes even more sense as the announcement states that they are trying to create a bigger cloud provider to compete with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsof…
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know as a story · 336 points
HN discussionThere were several threads about this. We merged them into the one that was posted first. We changed the url to the most readable and least press-releasey. The others were: https://twitter.com/EdHammondNY/status/1056604618015285248 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-sa... https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r...
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac as a story · 324 points
HN discussionEditors: This really should be the top link. Additionally, there's more detail in the email sent to RedHat employees, published here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-... Edit: Notably, from Jim Whitehurst's email: > ... When the transaction closes, as I noted above, [Red Hat] will be a distinct unit within IBM and I will report directly to [IBM chair, president, and CEO] Ginni [Rometty].
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted Linux is not about choice (2008) as a story · 301 points
HN discussionhttps://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r... "- IBM to maintain Red Hat’s open source innovation legacy, scaling its vast technology portfolio and empowering its widespread developer community - Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team"
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted Do we really need swap on modern systems? as a story · 291 points
HN discussionNow official - https://www.redhat.com/en
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released as a story · 289 points
HN discussionNow official! It's at $190/share vs Friday's $116.68 close https://www.redhat.com
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted What makes us Red Hat as a story · 280 points
HN discussionRedhat website confirmed it. https://www.redhat.com/en
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on “IBM acquires Red Hat”Submitted Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF as a story · 272 points
HN discussionHas anyone taken apart the llama community license and compared it to validated open source licenses? Red Hat is making a big deal about releasing the Granite LLM released under Apache. Is there a real difference between that and what Llama does? https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai/open-source-llm
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on “Open source AI is the path forward”Submitted Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a story · 256 points
HN discussionFrom https://code.facebook.com/posts/112130496157735/explaining-r... > As our business has become successful, we've become a larger target for meritless patent litigation. This type of litigation can be extremely costly in terms of both resources and attention. It would have been easy for us to stop contributing to open source, or to do what some other large companies do and only release software that isn't used in…
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on “Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js”Submitted Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus as a story · 250 points
HN discussion> there are open legal questions about whether the GPL and its variants are enforceable. At this point in history, there are multiple legal cases where GPL violators were taken to court and lost or settled. See: BusyBox and Linksys/OpenWrt. GPL v3 also has a nice clause that allows companies to "repair/cure" their non-compliance. > Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently i…
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on “Redis is open source again”Submitted DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers as a story · 250 points
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