Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

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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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Best IT Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following rss feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Via Russ White , RFC 9199 was drawn to my attention (“Considerations for Large Authoritative DNS Server Operators”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. This is pretty neat.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow have a blog series that, in their words, “aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Networking.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Testing and Quality Assurance To guarantee compatibility across various devices, operating systems, and eBook reading software, white label ed platforms perform extensive testing and quality assurance s. Operating System Testing Apart from device compatibility, K12 eBooks must also work across different operating systems.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Check out this blog post on the AWS re:Invent announcement , and take a look at Weave’s blog post on their involvement. Operating Systems/Applications. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 28, 2021

As I sit at my desk typing this blog, I have 15 Chrome tabs eating up 790MB of memory. I also have 17 Microsoft Edge tabs open, which take up 535MB of memory. Aside from those two extra tabs on Edge, I have the same webpages open, yet Chrome is hogging more memory. Complaints about the resource-hogging Google Chrome… Read more.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Networking.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. Check out Linux Academy’s free Serverless Concepts course that will get you up to speed on how to do more by going serverless. Why use it?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. I was very glad to see this blog post about the financial future of the GnuPG project. Via the Kubernetes blog, Rory McCune of Aqua Security provides some guidelines for securing admission controllers. Operating Systems/Applications. Running Docker on an M1 Max-based system? Read more here.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? You can get more details on Koyeb’s Pulumi provider in this blog post.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

release of netsim-tools in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows. should keep blogging.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Yes, please! (I

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. I read a couple of Cilium-related blog posts recently that may be useful.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Here’s another collection of articles and blog posts about some of the common technologies that modern IT professionals will typically encounter. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Operating Systems/Applications. That’s cool.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

More information on the script is in his blog post. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Operating Systems/Applications. The features and capabilities of this new release are described in this blog post.

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Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018 - Information Technology Blog. When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. It is available for GNU / Linux.

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Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Operating Systems/Applications. Kubernetes 1.15

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Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 21, 2023

Testing and Quality Assurance To guarantee compatibility across various devices, operating systems, and eBook reading software, white-label platforms perform extensive testing and quality assurance. Operating System Testing: Apart from device compatibility, the eBooks must also work seamlessly across different operating systems.

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eBook Quality Assurance Operating Systems Tools 78

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Ansible has made some good progress in supporting network automation in the latest release (2.2), according to this blog post. Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Top Tech Websites 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following RSS feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Operating Systems/Applications. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced). A new VPN security flaw has been uncovered that affects a wide range of UNIX- and Linux-based systems. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

, but we’ll stick it here anyway: check out this blog post on cilium-health , a tool for troubleshooting cluster connectivity. It’s good to see my friend Brent Salisbury blogging again, this time writing about measuring bandwith using iperf and Docker. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Check out Mark Russinovich’s blog post on SONiC , then pop over to Kamala Subramaniam’s more in-depth SONiC post. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Have fun reading! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). blog/videos-around-world-2015.

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