Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. Jeff Geerling describes his backup plan. Virtualization. Thomas Leonard has an interesting blog on using virtualization to isolate Xwayland. is available.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Engin Diri’s article on continuous cluster audit scanning with Trivy is a “two-for-one” article: you get to see some Pulumi YAML to create a Kubernetes cluster on Civo, and you get to see writing policies for the Trivy Operator. Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter.

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

If you’re new to this process, let me break this down for you: When you first log in to your cloud services provider console, you have to configure a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which requires networking knowledge. You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system.

Linux 92

Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. If that doesn’t work for your office’s Windows-only programs, you can always keep running Windows 7, with a lot less danger, on a virtual machine (VM) on Linux. Gimp , for example, instead of Photoshop.

Linux 106

Linux Windows How To Operating Systems 106

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Virtualization. This is notable (for me, at least) primarily because a growing number of Docker images are based on Alpine Linux.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60