Network World

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Open source is a wonderful thing. A significant chunk of today’s enterprise IT and personal technology depends on open source software. But even while open source software is widely used in networking, operating systems, and virtualization, enterprise security platforms still tend to be proprietary and vendor-locked.

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TechSpot

MARCH 3, 2023

Some influential people in the open-source community are pushing for the adoption of a one-stop app store for Linux-based operating systems. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Operating systems based on the open-source kernel aren't as reliable as Windows for anti-cheat systems, forcing Apex Legends to abandon official support for the platform. Read Entire Article Developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher EA recently shared some harsh insights about Linux as a gaming platform.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 16, 2023

KeePassXC is a secure and open-source password manager for desktop operating systems. Read Entire Article Its latest release fixes macOS issues and improves some UI elements. It comes highly recommended for cloud-free password storage.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers?

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Network World

JUNE 22, 2016

In a world where any new software project is built in large part on existing third-party code, finding and patching vulnerabilities in popular open-source libraries is vital to creating reliable and secure applications. Libarchive is an open-source library first created for FreeBSD, but since ported to all major operating systems.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Networking This article on running WireGuard in Docker may prove useful if that’s an approach I decide to adopt for my AWS lab infrastructure. A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered. Check out the newsletter to get the link to the Istio article.)

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

To help address that, I looked around to find an open, interoperable way of adding an extra layer of encryption onto my data. What I found is described in this post, and it involves using the open source EncFS and OSXFUSE projects along with an application from BoxCryptor to provide real-time, client-side AES-256 encryption.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here’s your weekend reading—a collection of links and articles from around the internet on a variety of data center- and cloud-related topics. Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. Welcome to Technology Short Take #175!

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), a bevy of security articles (including a couple on very severe vulnerabilities), Kubernetes, AWS IAM, and so much more! Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them. Servers/Hardware.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

’s lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of its articles in GPT-4 and other AI models. ” The need for strong open-source models: “The consolidation of power in AI is a huge risk. The countervailing forces are, number one, open source models. Related coverage on GeekWire: NYT v.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In any case, I’ve spent the last month collecting links to articles and tutorials from around the web on all the various technologies that us IT folk are likely to encounter in our day-to-day adventures. Looks like some significant bandwidth increases could be on the horizon; see this article for more details. Using Auth0?

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

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Vox

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the company’s new operating systems at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The company’s new operating systems want you to know — and control — who’s watching you online. Open Sourced is made possible by the Omidyar Network. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. This is useful, in my opinion, because now platform operators have a “starting point” on the specific threats they need to try to mitigate.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. David Both has an article on using systemd journals for troubleshooting. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Mina Abadir shares some experiences around migrating from PlanetScale to Amazon Aurora. Rory McCune explains Kubernetes authentication.

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Network World

APRIL 13, 2017

Samsung has had enough struggles with Tizen , the open-source operating system it is positioning as an alternative to Android. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here But now Tizen is being blasted by a security expert for being full of egregious security flaws and sloppy programming.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Mirantis published an article discussing a framework they built for bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack that allows OpenStack to place workloads onto bare-metal nodes instead of onto a hypervisor. I don’t have anything for this area this time around, but I’ll stay alert for articles to add next time. Servers/Hardware.

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Network World

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Cisco Systems' Talos team has developed an open-source tool that can protect the master boot record of Windows computers from modification by ransomware and other malicious attacks. The tool, called MBRFilter , functions as a signed system driver and puts the disk's sector 0 into a read-only state.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 29, 2017

Did you know that the reservations systems of the biggest carriers mostly run on a specialized IBM operating system known as Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L. Jackson 2017 ) Follow me at [link].

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Using Puppet with Multiple Operating Systems. I tested this code on both CentOS 6.3 Using Puppet for Account Management.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. This is an older article (published in May of last year), and it’s a bit on the lengthy side, but I like the tack the author uses.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #48, another installation in my irregularly-published series that collects links, articles, and thoughts from around the web. This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway).

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Vox

JUNE 24, 2020

Apple’s operating system updates will also require app developers to post a clear notice telling them what is being tracked. Open Sourced is made possible by the Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! This article on using osquery for behavioral detection of macOS malware was an interesting read. Read this article and you will be enlightened.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Rory McCune has a series of articles on PCI compliance in containerized and Kubernetes environments. food references in the title of this article are almost too much.

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Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

If you are reading this article, it means that you want to start studying programming. When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. Kotlin is an open source language. Objective-C.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories. Don’t worry—I’ll keep my eyes peeled and my RSS reader ready to pull in new articles in those categories for next time. Sander Rodenhuis wrote an article on security policies in Kubernetes.

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Vox

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s a somewhat disappointing showing for what seemed to be a promising technical solution from two of the biggest tech companies in the world whose mobile operating systems power nearly all of the world’s mobile phones. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. Even Apple and Google can’t fix that.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2022

I particularly like how the authors of this post on the principle of ephemerality included a “homework/call to action” section for each of the major areas discussed in the article. Operating Systems/Applications. Paul Johnston explains why he believes serverless systems aren’t software systems.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. This particular Technology Short Take is a tad heavy on cloud computing, but there’s a decent mix of other articles as well.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). (See See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Networking.

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