The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

The move might have helped rebut Epic’s complaints, but it also highlighted just how arbitrary Apple’s policies can seem. Steam Mobile lets players manage games for Windows, Mac, and Linux — but not iPhones or iPads. But Steam has a nearly anything-goes policy on porn, and Steam Mobile and Link put those games a few taps away on iOS.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Jonathan Bowman writes about the new crypto policies in Fedora 33 and whether you’ll need to adjust your SSH keys. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Ben Kehoe provides readers with a hygienic Python setup for Linux, macOS, and WSL. Programming.

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. I’m thankful that Bill Demirkapi followed a responsible disclosure policy. Networking. Servers/Hardware. seems appropriate to include.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. Here’s Chip Zoller’s comparison of Gatekeper and Kyverno. Via TecMint, James Kiarie explains how to use VirtualBox VMs on KVM in Linux. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Tim Hinrichs provides some details on Rego , the policy language behind the Open Policy Agent project. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

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. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Networking. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Here’s a review of targeted attacks and APTs (advanced persistent threats) on Linux. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms. More details are found in this article. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Hint: no technology is perfect.).

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