News briefs for November 6, 2018.
VMware has acquired Heptio, which was founded by Joe Beda and Craig
McLuckie, two of the creators of Kubernetes. TechCrunch
reports that the terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed and
that “this is a signal of the big bet that VMware is taking on
Kubernetes, and the belief that it will become an increasing
cornerstone in how enterprises run their businesses.” The post also
notes that this acquisition is “also another endorsement of the ongoing
rise of open source and its role in cloud architectures”.
The energy needed to mine one dollar’s worth of bitcoin is reported to
be more than double the energy required to mine the same amount of
gold, copper or platinum. The
Guardian reports on recent research from the Oak Ridge Institute in
Cincinnati, Ohio, that “one dollar’s worth of bitcoin takes
about 17 megajoules of energy to mine…compared with four, five and
seven megajoules for copper, gold and platinum”.
Happy 15th birthday to Fedora! Fifteen years ago today, November 6,
2003, Fedora Core 1 was released. See Fedora
Magazine’s post for a look back at the Fedora Project’s beginnings.
Microsoft announced the availability of two new Linux distros for
Windows Subsystem for Linux, which will coincide with the Windows 10
1809 release. ZDNet
reports that the Debian-based Linux distribution WLinux is
available from the Microsoft Store for $9.99 currently (normally it’s
$19.99). Also, OpenSUSE 15 and SLES 15 are now available from the
Microsoft Store as well.
ReactOS
0.4.10 was released today. The main new feature is
“ReactOS’ ability to now boot from a BTRFS formatted drive”. See the
official ChangeLog for more
details.