Scott Lowe

JULY 9, 2017

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. I’m still using the Dell Latitude E7370, which continues—from a hardware perspective—to perform admirably. This seems to happen most frequently with presentations.

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Linux Report Dell Mobile 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 9, 2017

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. I’m still using the Dell Latitude E7370, which continues—from a hardware perspective—to perform admirably. This seems to happen most frequently with presentations.

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Linux Report Dell Mobile 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform. Macintosh iPhone Linux' An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Why I Might Leave OS X. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Apple Operating Systems Applications Linux 149

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Linux Distribution. Chat/Instant messaging: I continue to use the Slack Linux client and Pidgin.

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Linux Report Vmware Google 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. I’m still using the Dell Latitude E7370, which continues—from a hardware perspective—to perform admirably. This seems to happen most frequently with presentations.

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Linux Report Dell Mobile 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen chose to produce software for a range of PCs, rather than making hardware of their own.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2025

Clippers / Intuit Dome Photo) [Editors Note: Microsoft@50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. We were looking, at that time, at maybe acquiring HTC, because it was already clear we would have to do hardware. I made a bunch of trips to Taiwan.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft Photo) Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. You know, ‘Linux is going to kill us, Lotus is going to kill us.’ Bill Gates needed a coat.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

This presentation was delivered at sinfo.org in Feb 2015. 60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. Due to time constraints we only focused on 4 of the 6 principles. Transcript. What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

But laying a digital foundation for the future presents unique challenges in the healthcare industry. You’ll be expected to have skills such as C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Linux development, Java, database administration, and an understanding of security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.

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Healthcare Systems Administration Business Intelligence Software 261

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In particular, the use of OpenFlow to perform granular per-flow control when there are thousands (or maybe only hundreds) of flows presents a scalability challenge (for now, at least). Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 5, 2011

Yesterday I completed co-presenting the three-part Ketchum webinar series on Tapping the Power of Mobile. The rise of independent hardware manufacturers could create new winners. Linux Mobile OS (in addition to Android and Bada) should not be discounted as key competitors. UNCERTAINTIES: OTHER. *

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Operating Systems Mobile System Windows 119

Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

Consider the typical items in your budget in a traditional IT environment like hardware maintenance costs, costs associated with OS patching, storage administration, and testing. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Make sure your staff are properly prepared with hands-on training from Linux Academy.

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Linux Budget Cloud Resources 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Linux distributions that offer ARM support, though—like Ubuntu, RHEL, and SuSE—are supported, however. It will be interesting to see how the support of a “Tier 1″ hardware vendor like HP affects the adoption of ARM in the enterprise. In vSphere 5.1, Technology Short Take #25.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 123

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. Only a true geek would be interested in this, but here’s some information on running OpenBSD in KVM on Linux. Given my past interest in OpenBSD and my present interest in KVM on Linux, this might be something I’ll be trying myself soon. That’s pretty handy. Technology Short Take #27.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Servers/Hardware I thought this write-up of Andy Bechtolsheim’s keynote at Hot Interconnects 2024 was an interesting summary of where we could see hardware development go in the next 4 years. Giacomo Coletto shares some “quality of life” improvements for Arch Linux. I can’t say I disagree.

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Linux Storage Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68

Linux Academy

MARCH 7, 2019

This required a large, upfront capital investment, a lengthy procurement cycle, and placed the responsibility of creating, running, and maintaining all the hardware and software for the business on a group of dedicated resources. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Maximizing Your Business Value.

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Cloud Web Services Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Michels starts with a brief overview of his background, then proceeds to position today’s talk as a follow-up (of sorts) to a presentation he did in Boston. Michels discusses that there are typically two approaches to DIY OpenStack: The “Donald” approach leverages whatever around, including older hardware.

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Hardware Operating Systems Linux Network 60

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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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 9, 2016

In order for the software to operate correctly, the supporting software in the environment has to be identical to the software that was present when the software was developed. Containers cannot generally provide the same level of isolation as hardware virtualization. What All Of This Means For You.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Testing latency and jitter using a Spirent shows that an SRF compares very favorably with an edge router, but not so well against a core router (even though everything on the SRF is software-based running on Linux).

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

Proporre un fornitore alternativo, non presente sulla piattaforma, diventa più difficile, anche quando il CIO, a ragion veduta, lo ritiene valido. Per esempio, è più difficile reperire professionisti che sappiano lavorare con Linux e l’open source in genere. “I

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Dell Cloud Backup Software 162

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. Christian Mohn shares an approach of storing private information in a Git repository along with GitBook for publication/presentation.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it. I’m also present in a number of Slack communities, and you’re welcome to contact me directly there as well.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. One project that caught my attention was Tart , a CLI-driven tool that leverages the virtualization support present in macOS to run virtual macOS instances. network virtualization).

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

To further enhance the performance of a server running LightOS (a “brick” in their terminology), Lightbits also offers a hardware acceleration card called the LightField. Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. NVMe/TCP acceleration.

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Meeting Storage HP Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. Skaugen takes some time to describe more fully the specifications around 2-in–1 devices, coming from hardware partners like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. General Linux Networking Storage Virtualization Hardware IDF2013 OpenStack' This would allow for greater flexibility with the Nova scheduler.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration. For example, their product runs natively as an agent/daemon/service on various UNIX platforms, various Linux distributions, and all recent versions of Windows Server.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2016

Whitebox/britebox hardware with Linux-based NOSes. Think about all the various innovations/changes that are happening in the networking space: Devices providing streaming telemetry, instead of relying on polling (which doesn’t scale). The addition of application programming interfaces (APIs) to existing NOSes.

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