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Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model

GeekWire

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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Malware and Antivirus Systems for Linux

Galido

Each computer system may have a malware or viruses, including Linux. Fortunately, there are only a few viruses which can affect Linux, but users are usually not installing antivirus software but later on they pray that their OS is not endangered. Thankfully, a low-footprint software exists for Linux. Linux Viruses.

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Google and Hortonworks Team Up: HDP Now Part of Google Cloud

CTOvision

Microsoft Shows More Love For Linux, HDInsight Now Supports Ubuntu On Azure (microsoft-news.com). An Open Microsoft: Azure HDInsight Available for Linux (windowsitpro.com). Jason Verge, "Hortonworks Becomes Official Google Cloud Feature". Hortonworks was already available on Microsoft''s Azure cloud, and Amazon''s AWS.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. More information is available in this Helm blog post. Networking.

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

It originally ran a custom Linux operating system that reviewers loved ( Laptop Mag ’s Mark Spoonauer said it was “ten times simpler to use than any Windows notebook”) and was generally heralded as a new kind of computer with tremendous mass appeal. This was state-of-the-art tech blogging in 2009.

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The Sovrin Ecosystem

Phil Windley

I've discussed the Foundation, it's mission, and organization at some length in a previous blog post. —Evernym is a commercial software vendor that developed the initial technology for Sovrin and continues to be a large contributor to the open source code that Sovrin is based on. Evernym, Inc. click to enlarge).