Google Cloud Next 2025: News and insights
Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas) is highlighting the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing. This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with announcem...
Linux Mint Introduces More Regex Filters to Nemo
Finding the exact files you want in the Nemo file manager will soon be easier and faster. Linux Mint is bringing ‘enhanced’ search functionality to the next major version of its GTK-based Nemo file manager (which is likely to see release the same t...
Linux Mint Expands Regex File Search in Nemo
Finding the exact files you want in the Nemo file manager will soon be easier and faster. Linux Mint is bringing ‘enhanced’ search functionality to the next major version of its GTK-based Nemo file manager (which is likely to see release the same t...
Monthly News – March 2025
Hi everyone, Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank all the people who donate, sponsor and contribute in various ways to our project. Many thanks to all of you! Note: The features which are previewed in this post are planned for upcoming re...
The View from Here
Imagine an investigative journalist, renowned for her work exposing corruption. She is communicating with a confidential informant and on the verge of cracking a high-profile case. She believes her conversations with the informant are secure - until a...
Google adds natural language query capabilities to AlloyDB
Google is enhancing AlloyDB, its fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to help developers build applications underpinned by generative AI. Announced at Google’s annual Cloud Next conference, the updates could give the PostreSQL-compatible All...
Google Cloud introduces cloud app design center
Google Cloud has introduced Application Design Center, a service that helps platform administrators and developers design, deploy, and manage applications on the Google Cloud Platform. Application Design Center is in public preview. Application Design...
What is Kubernetes? Scalable cloud-native applications
Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have become increasingly popular since Docker launched in ...
Four paradoxes of software development
Civil engineers can rightfully claim that no two bridges are exactly alike. However, bridges share many known characteristics, and the materials they are built with have known characteristics. Building bridges involves many known knowns and not as m...
Five things to consider before you deploy an LLM
If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks, including hammering nails. Since the debut of ChatGPT, there has been growing fervor and backlash against large language models (LLMs...
Five things to consider before you deploy an LLM
If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks, including hammering nails. Since the debut of ChatGPT, there has been growing fervor and backlash against large language models (LLMs...
We’re in Kenya. Fedora at Murang’a University
On March 28, 2025, we brought Fedora to Murang’a University of Technology in Kenya. The event introduced students to open source, Fedora Linux, and the many ways they can participate in the global Fedora community. This wasn’t just another tech tal...
