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Fun Linux Things

CIO Musings

Unix has become Linux, and it is running on an amazing variety of devices. New lineages of Linux have emerged.Some are highly specialized, some are more generic. I run Linux on a half dozen platforms at home. Circa 2009. A quick google search revealed not one, but several Linux distros that will run on this unit.

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Black Hat and DEF CON: The song remains the same

Network World

I’m looking at the July 20-27, 2009, issue of Network World. The front page headlines are: - Black Hat to expose attacks - Microsoft’s embrace of Linux seen as strategic - Data Loss Prevention Clear Choice Test - Burning Questions: 1) Are mobile Web apps ever going to grow up? Yes, history repeats itself.

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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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Top Sites Running Drupal : spf13.com

SPF13

Linux Journal. Mon Dec 21, 2009. BBC Music Magazine. BBC Countryfile Magazine. BBC Focus Magazine. BBC Who Do You Think You Are Magazine. BBC History Magazine. BBC Home And Antiques. CNN (cnngo.com). British Government. President Obama. Australian Prime Minister. New Zealand Government. Duke University. courtesy of @jrlaughlin.

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Sessions at the Fall OpenStack Summit

Scott Lowe

Virtualization Congress 2009 Sessions. Linux Networking Virtualization Docker KVM Libvirt OpenStack' Sessions at the Fall OpenStack Summit. Similar Posts: Collection of OpenStack Summit Session Liveblogs. Installing the Docker Plugin for Heat. Docker Making Its Move. Vote for My Site!

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Why I Might Leave OS X

Scott Lowe

Macintosh iPhone Linux' I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Why I Might Leave OS X. Similar Posts: The Future of the OS. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Apple on Intel. Apple and Virtualization. This is What Snow Leopard Needs.

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Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

We launched AWS Support in 2009 and since the launch the mission has remained constant: to help customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by AWS.