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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Revenue in Microsoft’s Surface hardware business rose 28% to more than $1.7 By comparison, the base price is $999.99 After years of stagnation and declining demand, global PC shipments rebounded in the second quarter , limited only by supply chain disruptions caused by pandemic-related manufacturing slowdowns. Microsoft Photo).

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

That proved to be more of apples to oranges comparison, but I think the OS example is a good comparison. Normally, the touch points between managing the two environments are at a very high level such as hardware and application management. I’ve also seen how difficult it is to manage both the product and operations model.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2021

Not only are they the company’s first tablets running its own HarmonyOS operating system, but the smaller MatePad Pro and MatePad 11 use Snapdragon chips produced by Qualcomm rather than the Huawei-designed Kirin processors found in its previous devices. Huawei has announced a trio of new MatePad tablets; a new 12.6-inch

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system. A better comparison would be with XenClient which I wrote about here. The largest drawback for XenClient has been its lacklustre hardware support. Microsoft has done general purpose operating systems well, forever.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s a beautiful piece of hardware, and a novel take on mobile computing. Hardware: This is a sleek, high-quality device. Some have reported issues with hardware discoloration and cracking around the USB-C port; I haven’t run into those issue on my device.). But it’s a very promising device. Microsoft Photo).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Servers/Hardware Manoj Kumar provides a beginner’s guide to Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. This article provides a comparison of Apache APISIX 3.0 and Kong API Gateway 3.0. (Be

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

While we aren’t expecting any announcements on the level of Apple’s shift to custom silicon in its computers, which was WWDC 2020’s big news, Apple presumably has some notable changes in the works for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and its other operating systems. Read on to learn everything we expect from the big show.

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Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Many iPhone users and Apple fanboys alike stand by their product no matter how limited Apple makes their storage capacities, while Android geeks have long time been able to freely add storage/memory cards to their devices and take advantage of more powerful hardware. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price. iPhones have a beautiful design.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Schuberg Philis has a nice write-up of their CloudStack+NVP deployment here.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Windows 11 has only just arrived on new devices earlier this month, so Microsoft and OEMs will be hoping the supply issues improve and that the new operating system drives even more demand for laptops and PCs. Hardware revenue is up again this quarter by 166 percent, thanks to continued demand for Xbox Series X and Series S consoles.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Servers/Hardware. What I’d like to find—but haven’t yet—is a good, in-depth comparison of fundamental concepts between AWS, Azure, and GCP. Operating Systems/Applications. 509 certificates used in mTLS. Timothy Prickett Morgan takes a look at Tesla’s “Dojo” supercomputer.

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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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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Good stuff!

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Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. Note that the Playbook hardware was not updated for Playbook 2.0,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

February 2017: Cook expands his thoughts on AR’s potential , adding a new comparison: AR is a big idea, like the smartphone. The first step in making it a mainstream kind of experience is to put it in the operating system. Apple’s AR hardware is perennially two years away. Even we can’t predict what’s going to come out.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Next is an older article from Patrick Ogenstad that provides an introduction to ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning). There’s some good information in their article.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

App Store exclusivity is part of that, but so are security measures like the code-signing and hardware root-of-trust systems. On the software side, there is a range of private APIs and OS-level entitlements that are only enabled after App Store review, tying the systems that much tighter together.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud. I’m not sure about that. If you have strong feelings about this, hit me on Twitter and let’s discuss. A browser-based side-channel attack ?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Paul Johnston shares several comparisons in support of how tech teams should run more like sports teams. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post. Lots of geekery in here!

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. In 2019, I think you had said to Wired , “The operating system is no longer the most important layer for us. ” So anything that is a client operating system ultimately does rendezvous with cloud computing. PWAs, which are progressive web apps.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today, Facebook still has to operate under the parameters set by Apple and Google, which make and control the world’s dominant smartphone operating systems. But in this new world that will likely rely on VR/AR headsets and digital sensors, Facebook is striving to create its own rules and operating platform.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? (Do I need to talk about how understanding a service mesh is a good thing for networking professionals?

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). 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.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Operating Systems/Applications. This is an awesome collection of patched fonts.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. In the event that you need yet-another-introduction to Kubernetes networking, Mark Betz has a three-part series you may find helpful/useful ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Read more about it here. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you this time.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ). Servers/Hardware. This news came out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015: Ericsson has announced a new “hyperscale” hardware platform based on Intel’s Rack Scale Architecture (RSA).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Personally, I could’ve done without the little product advertisement at the end, but that’s just me. Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

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