Fedora & openSUSE: what is common in the latest releases?

The second half of November brought us two exciting new Linux distribution releases: openSUSE Leap 42.2 and Fedora 25. While both of them are based on the RPM packaging format and cover everything from embedded through desktops to servers, there are ...

Troubleshooting Java support in syslog-ng

Java based destination drivers were introduced to syslog-ng last year. The syslog-ng application uses libjvm.so to embed a Java Virtual Machine inside syslog-ng. Java libraries tend to have a large binary footprint, even just the Java Runtime Environ...