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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

2015 PREDICTION TIME!! They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record. Linux Containers take center stage - Linux Containers of all forms, will mature and become interoperability building blocks of the cloud computing world.

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Stealthy, tricky to remove rootkit targets Linux systems on ARM and x86

Network World

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove. Called Umbreon, after a Pokémon character that hides in the darkness, the rootkit has been in development since early 2015 and is now being sold on the underground markets.

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The Linux Migration: Other Users’ Stories, Part 4

Scott Lowe

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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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 1 General Session

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the day 1 general session at DockerCon 2015, taking place this week (today and tomorrow, anyway) at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, CA. Improving the developer experience (building better tools) is important. This is my first DockerCon, and I’m looking forward to picking up lots of new knowledge.

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How to Increase AWS Certifications by 50% | Rackspace Case Study

Linux Academy

With their success based on delivering technical expertise and support to their customers, Rackspace looked to Linux Academy to provide engaging training and equip employees with the knowledge and skills needed to proactively solve customer problems and meet customer service level agreements. Linux Academy client since August 2015.

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Tech News Roundup March 11

CTOvision

Steve Ballmer no longer badmouths Linux but makes no apologies for calling it a ‘cancer’. Nextgov: Federal Agencies Cite June 2015 'Cyber Sprint' for Noncompetitive IT Contracts - ExecutiveGov. GitHub adds emoji reactions to help developers keep their comments on track. Apple: Far Too Important to Be Left to Judges - Newsweek.

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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 2 General Session

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog from the day 2 general session at DockerCon 2015. Porting it back to development wasn’t the right approach. This led BI to Fig (now Docker Compose), which led to a decrease in the time it took to get a development environment up and running. Here’s what I was able to capture.