Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 19, 2018

I won’t go into all the gory details here; see this post for some background and then see this update from last October that summarized my previous efforts to migrate to Linux ( Fedora , specifically) as my primary desktop operating system. The motivation for using Linux is something I’ve already discussed.

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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. The hardware is, admittedly, crowded, and you’re going to want to rework some keybindings sooner or later, but it all works better than I expected it would. For comparison’s sake.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. 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. Lots of geekery in here! Programming.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Servers/Hardware. I knew Microsoft was cozying up to Linux, but I honestly didn’t expect they would port SQL Server to Linux. Have fun reading! Networking. Read more about it here.

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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. Servers/Hardware. What does this mean?

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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. Servers/Hardware. 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.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM.

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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). Servers/Hardware. 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). Servers/Hardware. 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

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?” Servers/Hardware. Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. ” Get ready to get nerdy! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Servers/Hardware. 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 ).

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM.

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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). Servers/Hardware. Want or need to use multiple external networks in your OpenStack deployment?

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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. Servers/Hardware. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client. There’s some good information in their article. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Servers/Hardware. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience.

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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). Servers/Hardware. 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

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS). JJ Asghar provides some direct steps to getting PowerCLI 10+ working on Ubuntu Linux. Thomas Maurer has a “first impressions” post on the Microsoft Surface Book 2. (I

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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. Servers/Hardware. Giuliano Bertello shares why it’s important to RTFM; or, how he fixed an issue with a Cross-vCenter NSX 6.2

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Servers/Hardware. 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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

At this point, every platform has a virtual storefront, so there’s always room for a few gift cards, and unlike hardware or collectibles, scalpers can’t buy up all the digital media before you can get to the store. A physical Switch game, with a quarter for comparison. Photo: Thomas Wilde). Resident Evil Village.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

WSL, which is the part of Windows that lets you run Linux. That’s in comparison to the very controversial 30 percent that Apple charges. The new terminal, and the fact that now we even support the full Linux UI on Windows. Linux is now first class on Windows, and Android is just another subsystem.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It manages all the hardware and all the software on a system. So what do we mean by managing all the hardware? That program, then, handled all the issues of hardware and software. And now, what has happened is we've got much more massive hardware, much more massive memory, much more massive applications. And software?

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

But the comparison to Netflix or Spotify is beside the point. Games of the future may not need players to own powerful hardware or even to pay full price for the title itself. Apple has the added benefit of granting its own products access to iOS hardware and software privileges many third-party devs do not.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Servers/Hardware. It may prove useful to others who are also seeking to improve their knowledge of MPLS. Thanks Jason!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Servers/Hardware. 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.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The decision to do hardware SKUs was really centered on that. But] if it’s, we’re going to go compete with one hardware competitor and we just want to make it as easy as possible to compare our one product to their one product, that was the thought process that would have you push to say, no, just do one thing. Is it playing out?

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2025

The closest comparison, Ballmer said, was the companys alliance with IBM, developing operating systems for early personal computers. We were looking, at that time, at maybe acquiring HTC, because it was already clear we would have to do hardware. We worked intensely with OEMs on the advantages of Windows versus Linux, he said.

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