LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Is Available For Testing

LibreOffice 7.1 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 the fourth pre-release since the development of version 7.1 started at the end of May, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.1 RC1, 87 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 64 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.1. Also: LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite

Getting to know Kyeong Sang Kim, Red Hat general manager for Korea

We’re delighted to welcome Kyeong Sang Kim to Red Hat as a general manager for Korea. In the new role, he will be responsible for Red Hat’s business operations in the country. Kyeong Sang is an expert in the field of IT consulting, supporting numerous business innovation projects for more than 25 years. Prior to joining Red Hat, Kyeong Sang served as the CEO of SICC (Ssangyong Information & Communications Corp), where he successfully led the company’s digital transformation to the cloud. He has also held several other leadership roles at global companies, including Accenture. We caught up with Kyeong Sang to find out more about his interest in open source and Red Hat, and his insights on leadership.

CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers

Last month, Red Hat caused a lot of consternation in the enthusiast and small business Linux world when it announced the discontinuation of CentOS Linux. Long-standing tradition—and ambiguity in Red Hat's posted terms—led users to believe that CentOS 8 would be available until 2029, just like the RHEL 8 it was based on. Red Hat's early termination of CentOS 8 in 2021 cut eight of those 10 years away, leaving thousands of users stranded. As of February 1, 2021, Red Hat will make RHEL available at no cost for small-production workloads—with "small" defined as 16 systems or fewer. This access to no-cost production RHEL is by way of the newly expanded Red Hat Developer Subscription program, and it comes with no strings—in Red Hat's words, "this isn't a sales program, and no sales representative will follow up."