Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. The following sections describe my current, active environment.

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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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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won’t be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.

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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. My line-up of applications also remains largely unchanged as well.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. Servers/Hardware. I hope that you find something useful here.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. A “highly evasive” Linux malware named OrBit has emerged; see here for more details. Howard Oakley takes a look at virtualization on Apple silicon Macs. Networking. William Lam confirms that ESXi 7.x

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Over the past few years, Apple has made a relentless push to get the iPad past the old criticism that it’s “just a big iPhone.” iPad hardware. Apple wants to push the iPad into classrooms, and the idea of trying to hang on to dozens of Lightning headphones or Bluetooth headphones sounds like a nightmare. It still has a 10.2-inch

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 29, 2017

As part of my Linux migration (see my initial progress report ), late this past week I started setting up my first non-Apple laptop since 2003. Look, I get it—I used an Apple laptop for 14 years. If you’re considering moving to Linux, the E7370 may be a good platform to consider. 16 GB of RAM. 512 GB NVMe SSD.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It’s packed with tools for exploring hardware, software, and wireless protocols. Researchers demonstrated the ability to bombard Apple devices with bogus connection requests, triggering an endless torrent of pop-ups and wreaking havoc on notifications. Well, Wall of Flippers is here to become a remedy for that!

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Howard Oakley has a great series on Apple Silicon; the series is up to three posts so far. The first post provides a high-level overview of how Apple Silicon M-series chips are different, and the second post has more details on the capabilities of the P and E cores. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip. And speaking of the Apple M1 chip, Ernie Smith shares how he managed to “break” his M1-powered Mac using Dropbox.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

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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!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Losing to Apple—whose M-series chips are widely regarded as faster and more efficient than Intel’s chips—has apparently stung the chip giant into revving up the innovation engine. Dennis Felsing shares some thoughts on switching to macOS after 15 years on Linux. Read more here. Yes please!

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. Since Apple’s announcement at WWDC 2020 about the transition to ARM-based CPUs, there’s been a lot of analysis and discussion of what this means.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. As millions of other users did, I also adopted the iPhone (and later the iPad), further strengthening Apple’s hold on my personal computing landscape. Instead, Apple’s engineers set out to design an operating environment that was tailored to the form factor.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. This will become even more useful, in my opinion, when Linux support is added.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. That’s a neat trick.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Jeff Johnson shows how to log some information being sent between macOS and Apple.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. That proved to be more of apples to oranges comparison, but I think the OS example is a good comparison. For instance, in the case of hardware, we may have a single pane of glass to monitor hardware related events.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. There was a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with the Touch Bar. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Sam McGeown discusses deploying ECMP with NSX for a provider logical router.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. A redesign for Apple’s long-stagnant System Preferences app? (Seriously.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced). A new VPN security flaw has been uncovered that affects a wide range of UNIX- and Linux-based systems.

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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

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It provides the basics behind X.509v3

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. OS X users might find this Apple support article on OS X wireless roaming to be helpful. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Show Notes. Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 5, 2011

UNCERTAINTIES: APPLE. Whether Apple releases low-end iPhone. 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. . * Planned merger of smartphone and tablet versions of Android (“Ice Cream Sandwich”?).

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Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. It is available for GNU / Linux. We can develop Web applications much faster by minimizing the steps, time and convolution involved in programming. Objective-C.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Show Notes. Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2017

In this article, I want to share with you the steps I took to enable wireless networking on an older (mid-2011) 13” MacBook Pro running Fedora 25. This is driven by a continued need to evaluate Fedora 25, as I’ve run into a few potential roadblocks with Ubuntu 16.04 as my primary laptop OS.

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