The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Photo: Linux Mint. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Teams now runs on Linux. Which Linux?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. “We wanted to take all the savings that we could get from manufacturing and turn that into lower prices for customers overall.”

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. 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.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads. Closing Thoughts.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. WSL, which is the part of Windows that lets you run Linux. In 2019, I think you had said to Wired , “The operating system is no longer the most important layer for us. ” This is a pressure that every operating system feels.

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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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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

But I’m just as interested in something they share: their attempts to bring their desktop operating systems into the modern era of what I’ll call “Managed Operating Systems.” That’s not to say operating systems like macOS or Windows 10 are un managed, of course, but they’ve historically tended to be a little more open.

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