Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

Ansible uses YAML to describe your automation jobs, which is easy to learn in comparison to other languages because it looks very similar to plain English. But y ou can do all of that and more in our free Ansible Quick Start course on Linux Academy , right now. LPI Linux Essentials 1.6. Why is it considered to be the simplest?

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

As a leading Portuguese IT sourcing partner, they also take the responsibility of managing and developing consultant skills very seriously. This course is designed for system administrators or cloud technologists who wish to further develop their skills for evaluating, deploying, and administering cloud services.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

ADLINK has developed the Pocket AI, a portable GPU featuring an NVIDIA GPU with Tensor-Core technology. Pocket AI is the perfect device for AI developers, professional graphics users, and embedded industrial applications for boosting productivity by improve the work efficiency,” says the official product description.

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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 11, 2020

It’s not unusual to see “networking professionals need to learn developer tools,” but how often do you see “developers need to learn these networking tools”? Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Servers/Hardware. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. ” Get ready to get nerdy! Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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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. If you’re a developer-type person, I would first ask why you’re reading my site, then I’d point you to this post on the AMQP, MQTT, and STOMP messaging protocols.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

We aren’t looking at developer heavy environments such as Paypal, Netflix etc. 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. I believe OpenStack see’s application developer’s as the ultimate customer.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2014

I mentioned at the start of this post that I’d provide some comparison to other methods for deploying containers in an automated fashion. It will be interesting to see how things develop on this front. Interoperability Virtualization Automation Docker Linux OpenStack' See the blog posts I provided earlier.).

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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. Tony Bourke has a two-part series on ZFS and Linux and encryption ( part 1 , part 2 ). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. What does this mean? You’re welcome.

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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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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Naim next goes through some pricing comparisons showing how EFS is much cheaper than DIY storage solutions using EC2 instances and EBS volumes. A new feature announced last week is EFS File Sync, which is designed to get data from on-premises file systems into EFS, and is designed to operate up to 5x faster than traditional Linux copy tool.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. And while we’re on the topic of AKS, AKS developer Weinong Wang shares how to access control plane logs for AKS. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client.

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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. The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Are you a developer?

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Dataconomy

JUNE 9, 2023

The pursuit of writing clean, reliable, and high-performing code is a constant challenge for developers but luckily dynamic code analysis is here to help. Dynamic code analysis is a powerful approach that allows developers to gain deeper insights into their code’s behavior during runtime.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

That’s part of the reason why Amazon is limiting its availability at launch — even after years of development, it still has a lot to figure out. The company says it used Qualcomm silicon here because of the Astro’s long development time. For those interested, the Astro’s functionality is built on top of Fire OS and Linux.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2015

He draws some comparisons between the use of full-machine virtualization (aka VMs) with the use of Linux containers—not that one is better or worse than the other, but that they are different and therefore have different characteristics and different use cases. That lead to “automagically configured” web services (PaaS).

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

For comparison, even OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo caps out around the same token count, and that’s no small feat. It’s a hybrid approach that mirrors what open-source giants like Red Hat did in the Linux world, fostering community while keeping the cash registers ringing. That’s the equivalent of a 50-page book. Image credits: Mistral

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 10, 2019

Oh, did I forget to mention, other than installing Linux, I really shouldn’t be left to my own devices with a Linux console. The best comparison I have is VMware vSphere. Unlike vSphere, K8s is focused on the developer experience. On top of all that, I’m pretty rusty touching deep technology.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). I love how developers come up with these themes around certain projects. Technology Short Take #42.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

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. The 713 supports all the latest Android apps, which are in varying stages of development for Chrome OS.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

That’s all wrapped up in some big changes to how apps are distributed on Windows: Microsoft is opening up the Windows app store, allowing developers to put more kinds of apps in the store, and it’s allowing developers to bypass the fees in the store if they want to use their own payment systems. PWAs, which are progressive web apps.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A physical Switch game, with a quarter for comparison. Fireteam Elite , from the small San Jose-based developer Cold Iron Studios, is closer to the top end of the scale. When in doubt, get something with Mario on the cover and you’ll probably be okay. Photo: Thomas Wilde). Guilty Gear Strive. Resident Evil Village.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Rancher—the company behind RancherOS (Linux distro that uses Docker for system services as well as user applications) and Rancher (a management platform for containerized infrastructure)—recently announced a container metadata service they’re saying is analogous to Amazon’s Instance Metadata service.

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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. Or is there more I’m not seeing?

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Network World

MAY 17, 2024

Red Hat went all-in on generative AI at its annual summit last week, offering a wide range of tools for operational and development teams to help them build and deploy generative AI systems. These improvements include the ability to serve AI models at the edge and better model development. But Red Hat had everything else.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This episode looks at how fuzz testing has evolved over the years, how open source projects have for the most part gone untested over time, and how new efforts to match fuzzing to software development are today helping to discover dangerous new vulnerabilities before they become the next Shellshock. What’s a worm?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This episode looks at how fuzz testing has evolved over the years, how open source projects have for the most part gone untested over time, and how new efforts to match fuzzing to software development are today helping to discover dangerous new vulnerabilities before they become the next Shellshock. What’s a worm?

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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. Wooting is aware of these issues, but unfortunately, it’s something that would need to be addressed by individual game developers to fix. Maybe this is an unfair comparison.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It was not a literal time machine, but a way of capturing the software development process by recording intervals and storing them in the close. Then, when a vulnerability was discovered later on, a developer could go back in time and find the moment the fault was introduced into the code. He called it Time Stone.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Factors such as performance, scalability, security, privacy, development tools, and governance all play a role in determining the suitability of a particular blockchain for smart contracts. Not all blockchains support smart contracts, and some do have limited capabilities or require significant development effort to implement.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

To answer these questions I’ll talk with an expert on developing security testing tools, someone who was, coincidentally, there the moment Heartbleed was discovered. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

To answer these questions I’ll talk with an expert on developing security testing tools, someone who was, coincidentally, there the moment Heartbleed was discovered. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function.

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