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Own your Enterprise Linux upgrade timeline with RLC Pro
Every six months, the upstream Enterprise Linux community ships a new minor release and retires the previous one. Your team's upgrade calendar resets: regression testing, application re-validation…
CentOS Connect / FOSDEM trip report
Waffles, fries, and beer! Can you guess where we were last week? That’s right. We were in the wonderful city of Brussels, Belgium. We were there for more than just the food and beverages. We were…
Debugging and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks
The error says "line 11, column 5" but line 11 looks fine. Sound familiar? Ansible error messages can be cryptic. A missing space breaks everything. A typo in a variable name fails silently until…
CIQ launches RLC Pro: redefining the Enterprise Linux standard
RLC Pro unifies open source availability and enterprise capabilities in one solution, eliminating infrastructure fragmentation. A foundation built for modern infrastructure, with variants purpose…
Achieving idempotency with shell commands
Introduction Ansible is powerful, but mastering it at enterprise scale requires understanding key concepts that aren't always straightforward, and having the right platform to implement them reliably…
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Preparing your infrastructure for post-quantum cryptography
Your security team is asking about post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Your auditors are asking about PQC. Your customers are asking about PQC. And when you go looking for FIPS-validated post-quantum…
Rocky Linux from CIQ bootable container images now available
Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) now ships as bootable container images, letting organizations deploy and manage their Linux infrastructure using the same container workflows they use for applications…
Fuzzball adds preview support for CoreWeave provisioning
The next version of Fuzzball includes preview support for the AI-focused cloud computing platform CoreWeave, making CoreWeave the second cloud environment and first “neo-cloud” that can be natively…
The zero-day gap: why patching alone leaves Linux systems exposed
A new kernel CVE drops on Friday afternoon. Your security team flags it as critical. Exploit code is already circulating on GitHub. Your patch cycle is 30 days. What happens in that gap? For most…
Running Jupyter notebooks on HPC clusters without SSH tunneling
Every HPC center has the same support ticket: "How do I run Jupyter on the cluster?" The answer usually involves SSH tunneling, port forwarding, and a series of steps that look something like this…
Reactive vs. proactive security: why your Linux infrastructure needs both
The reactive security model Most enterprise security operates on a straightforward cycle: detect threats, respond to incidents, patch vulnerabilities, repeat. This model has served organizations well…
CVE management: automate discovery to remediation
When your security team asks, "Are we vulnerable to CVE-2026-XXXX?" the answer needs to come in minutes, not hours. With over 100 new CVEs published daily—and some days exceeding 1,000—manual…