Say Goodbye to Lock-In. Say Hello to Platform9 CE. If you've been searching for a free, modern, and enterprise-grade private cloud platform that doesn’t come with surprise license costs or bloated complexity, Platform9 just dropped exactly what you need. Meet the Private Cloud Director Community Edition (PCD CE)—a powerful new release...

I’ve been in this industry long enough to have installed Slackware from 20 floppies on a 486 with 8MB RAM just to prove a point. I compiled kernels at 3 a.m. because I wanted to learn. I’ve watched every “Year of the Linux Desktop” prediction crash and burn harder...