Lenovo Will Pre-load Ubuntu and Red Hat on All Its Workstations

TechRepublic calls it “a tectonic shift in the landscape… a massive company showing serious support for both Ubuntu Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.” Forbes reports:
Beginning this month, Lenovo will certify its ThinkStation PCs and ThinkPad P Series laptops for both Ubuntu LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Every single model, every single configuration across the entire workstation portfolio. [ZDNet adds…

‘FOSS Responders’ Want to Help Open-Source Groups Survive

“Thanks to the coronavirus, technology events have been canceled left and right,” writes ZDNet. “This, in turn, is damaging the finances of companies and groups that depend on these events.” Some open-source groups, such as The Linux Foundation, can deal with it. Others aren’t so fortunate. Some, such as Drupal Foundation, the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Open Source Matters (Joomla), and…

Java Programming Language Celebrates Its 25th Birthday. What’s Next?

May 23rd marks the 25th anniversary of the day Sun Microsystems introduced Java to the world, notes InfoWorld. Looking at both the present and the future, they write that currently Java remains popular “with enterprises even as a slew of rival languages, such as Python and Go, now compete for the hearts and minds of software developers.” Java continues to rank…