Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Ben Kehoe provides readers with a hygienic Python setup for Linux, macOS, and WSL. Corey Minyard of MontaVista disusses the role of Linux and virtualization in safety-critical systems. Programming.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s a Linux gaming PC that runs many but not all Windows games, on the go like a Nintendo Switch, only with way more horsepower, shorter battery life, and a seriously noisy fan. I’ll talk about Windows more later, but TL;DR: I don’t recommend Windows on the Deck at all. Consider this our Steam Deck FAQ.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. For instance, there was the whole Windows vs. automobile industry meme that was going around a few years ago. That proved to be more of apples to oranges comparison, but I think the OS example is a good comparison.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

I’m picky about touchpads, but this one is quite roomy, with a smooth Gorilla Glass surface — I’d choose it over plenty of touchpads I’ve used on multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops. Resizing a window or sending it to fullscreen, for example, takes just a bit longer than it does on $600 devices. But I got impatient at times.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

In the last few weeks, though, I’ve revisited the idea of a plain text productivity system as part of my migration to Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop OS, and I think I’ve resolved some of the issues that were present in my last attempt. Further, I very recently decided to make Ubuntu Linux 16.04 I’m not sure about #4 yet.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. OpenSSH on Windows —what a time to be alive! Servers/Hardware. This is an awesome collection of patched fonts.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. If I ever get my hands on a Windows 10 box (I’m seriously considering adding a Windows 10 box to my home office setup), I’m going to try this process. Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS). Operating Systems/Applications.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

Three initial reactions, on my end: $399 for this seems crazily inexpensive, particularly by comparison with the Valve’s VR headset Index. Internally, the Steam Deck runs on a new version of SteamOS , the Linux-based operating system that Valve used to run for its Steam Machine project.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document. in the comparison, even though RHEV 3.1

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Technologies covered include Microsoft Windows and Azure, Amazon Web Services, VMware, Linux, Google Docs, Drupal, WordPress, OpenStack, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Chef, and Chef Solo. These three CloudMASTER courses guide students through a wide expanse of cloud based technologies.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 13, 2013

I plan on during a full comparison of View and XenDesktop. But, before I do a comparison I thought I’d share what I like and don’t like about XenDesktop. There’s client’s for Blackberry, Windows 8, iOS, Linux and Android just to name a few. What I like. Virtualization Citrix VDI XenDesktop'

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system. For comparison’s sake. The Deck, like Valve’s Steam Machine before it, uses a custom operating system based on Linux, with a special Proton compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

In this respect, you could make a comparison between Consul and etcd, the distributed key/value store bundled with CoreOS Linux. Installing Consul is pretty easy, actually: Download the Consul software (binaries are provided for 32-bit Linux, 64-bit Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows). Installing Consul. Running Consul.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

So, the “typical” administrator will have strong Windows skills. If I were to still be in the business of administering servers, I’d be a Windows expert and feel comfortable managing Linux appliances within the environment. This is a different skillset than most administrators that run Windows infrastructures.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

You get noticeably more vertical screen space, and I could comfortably stack windows side by side without ever having to zoom out. This configuration worked so well that I’m comfortable saying the i7 model is really best for developers and other power users who are coding or running desktop Linux applications.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 9, 2023

Compatible with Windows, Linux, and Unix, VisualVM stands as a reliable and versatile troubleshooting tool for Java developers and administrators, empowering them to identify and resolve issues efficiently. Setting up Pyroscope is a breeze, regardless of whether you are using Docker, Linux, or seeking documentation for Ruby or Go.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 20, 2016

HPE will be bundling Docker with every ProLiant server (though I still haven’t seen anything around the Linux distribution that will be used). Golub also calls out Microsoft, mentioning not only the work being done to run Docker on Windows but also the collaboration with Microsoft around Azure.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2016

HPE will be bundling Docker with every ProLiant server (though I still haven’t seen anything around the Linux distribution that will be used). Golub also calls out Microsoft, mentioning not only the work being done to run Docker on Windows but also the collaboration with Microsoft around Azure.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Although this post is a bit older (it’s from September of last year), it’s still an interesting comparison of both OpenStack and CloudStack. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Interested in some OpenStack inception? How about some oVirt inception?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. It’s important to note that these security enhancements don’t really represent “net new” functionality but rather reflect existing Linux security constructs now being exposed and usable by Docker. More details are Nano Server are available here.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Naturally, things get a lot more interesting once you download Wootility , Wooting’s companion software that’s available across Windows, Mac, and Linux. Maybe this is an unfair comparison. On more than one occasion, Windows refused to pick up the Wooting Two HE’s gamepad inputs at all.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2021

Mac, Windows or Linux? Finding creative ways to have moments of awe — whether it’s in nature, listening to profound music, or watching something that lets your brain remember that whatever is going on in this moment is small in comparison to the big picture. Favorite superhero or sci-fi character? Twitter: @Charna Parkey.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

After testing Unix, Miller went to fuzz Windows NT and other systems. Worms, by comparison, are able to replicate on their own so the Morris worm exploited an overflow vulnerability in Finger to spread from system to system. And it's on your Mac, and virtually any company that runs the Linux operating system.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

After testing Unix, Miller went to fuzz Windows NT and other systems. Worms, by comparison, are able to replicate on their own so the Morris worm exploited an overflow vulnerability in Finger to spread from system to system. And it's on your Mac, and virtually any company that runs the Linux operating system.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For those interested, the Astro’s functionality is built on top of Fire OS and Linux. The Astro also has Alexa Guard integration, allowing it to alert you to sounds of a broken window or smoke alarm, just like an Echo speaker. Amazon’s execs were eager to tell me how useful it is to check if the oven was left on when you aren’t home.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

CODEN: Basically, the fundamental issue is look at that early Unix and Linux operating systems that were providing these very basic services that are still the the only things we really need from the operating system today. There's the commercial side of it, you know, Mac OS, Windows, Android. It's every bit as fast as Linux.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

But the comparison to Netflix or Spotify is beside the point. It might simply not want to cede control of the user experience when an iPhone simply becomes a tiny wireless TV screen for games running on remote Windows or Linux PCs. Apple won’t say exactly why it won’t allow cloud gaming platforms on the App Store. ”It

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s got an ARM processor, and it runs Linux and we’re off to the races. Windows is open. Things like Steam were created on Windows, because Gabe and the team could go build an app on Windows products. Frankly, Chrome was built on Windows. I’ve seen it work on Windows—. I do fundamentally believe that.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. I guess there have been for example a virus tool comparisons that both can found and so on but I'm not aware of any like systematic long running effort of measuring a set of tools and how they can form. It would be interesting.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. I guess there have been for example a virus tool comparisons that both can found and so on but I'm not aware of any like systematic long running effort of measuring a set of tools and how they can form. It would be interesting.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. I guess there have been for example a virus tool comparisons that both can found and so on but I'm not aware of any like systematic long running effort of measuring a set of tools and how they can form. It would be interesting.

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