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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Linux Distribution. Applications.

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The Linux Migration: April 2017 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

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. Applications. LTS (“Xenial Xerus”).

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The hard truth about lifecycle management

CIO Business Intelligence

Search for a definition of lifecycle management and you’ll find something along the lines of: A strategic approach to managing the life cycle of an application or platform from conception to end of life — from provisioning, through operations, to retirement. But retiring the application or platform? The view from here?

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DockerCon 2016 Vendor Meetings

Scott Lowe

While at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, I took some time on the expo floor to talk to a number of different vendors, mostly focused on networking solutions. I suspect I have a lot more to learn about the application deployment cycle/pipeline before I can truly appreciate what JFrog has to offer, but it certainly seems pretty useful.

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Best Laptops Under $200 in 2016-2017

Galido

Today, most applications are now on the cloud, meaning, you don’t need much to run many applications, as all the processing is done on the server in the cloud. Here are some of our favorite full Windows 10 machines (compatible with Linux) for 2016-2017. HP Stream 11 (2016). Asus E402SA.

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5 trillion bytes a day: SpaceX engineers flash some facts about Starlink satellites

GeekWire

SpaceX tends to play its satellite cards close to the vest, in part because the process of building a satellite system is “highly proprietary” — as one of the company’s vice presidents, Patricia Cooper, said in a 2016 filing with the Federal Communications Commission. Just last month, SpaceX and the U.S.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Operating Systems/Applications.

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