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

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

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

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Or is there more I’m not seeing?

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

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

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Non-code contributions are, in my opinion, an important but oft-overlooked aspect of open source communities. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Intel Operating Systems Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Operating Systems/Applications. And, in the case of Docker, whether you’re talking about the open source Docker project or the company Docker, Inc. Read more about it here.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

Open Source 52

Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. First, I read this article by Chris Dent on his viewpoint that persistent IRC connectivity/use is actually harmful to open source communities.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. First, I read this article by Chris Dent on his viewpoint that persistent IRC connectivity/use is actually harmful to open source communities.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. Jesse Hu has shared a Helm chart for deploying VMware’s open source Harbor registry. I think the omission of AWS support at GA is a mistake, but what do I know?

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This recent Ars Technica article points out that a feature in Chromium—the open source project leveraged by Chrome and Edge, among others—is having a significant impact on root DNS traffic. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms.

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Linux Programming Cloud Open Source 60

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). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 60

Network World

MAY 17, 2024

IBM’s newly open-sourced Granite models? Other companies have also released open source gen AI, including Databricks and Snowflake, as well as Meta and Microsoft – even X and Apple are in the game. It’s almost as though Red Hat is building a new operating system with RHEL AI, but for AI. “It

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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. Throughout his career, Microsoft faced a wide range of competitors, from operating system rivals to cloud challengers. How does OpenAI compare to Microsofts past partnerships?

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