July 26, 2016

Kudu Now a Top-Level Apache Project

The Apache Software Foundation has promoted Kudu to a top-level project. Originally developed by Cloudera, Kudu is a columnar storage manager for Hadoop that was designed for fast processing of OLAP workloads. It also supports Apache Spark and Impala. ?Under the Apache Incubator, the Kudu community has grown to more

Linux Kernel 4.7 Released

Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 4.7, the fourth update for the open source operating system this year. Key new features in the release include the LoadPin Linux Security Module and the schedutil cpu frequency scaling governor. In his note announcing the release, Torvalds noted that “the final patch wasn’t