Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 19, 2018

I won’t go into all the gory details here; see this post for some background and then see this update from last October that summarized my previous efforts to migrate to Linux ( Fedora , specifically) as my primary desktop operating system. The motivation for using Linux is something I’ve already discussed.

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Linux Hardware Media System 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 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. Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

The system will reportedly become available for reservations on July 16. Three initial reactions, on my end: $399 for this seems crazily inexpensive, particularly by comparison with the Valve’s VR headset Index. It seems here like Valve has beaten most of them to the punch. Will anyone actually be able to get one of these things?

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Operating Systems System Comparison Linux 114

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. That proved to be more of apples to oranges comparison, but I think the OS example is a good comparison. Hypervisors should be treated the same as Linux and Windows management. We love to compare things in IT.

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Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

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. Running distributed systems such as etcd, Kubernetes, Linkerd, etc., Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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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.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s a Linux gaming PC that runs many but not all Windows games, on the go like a Nintendo Switch, only with way more horsepower, shorter battery life, and a seriously noisy fan. Compare to the Nintendo Switch, where The Witcher 3 looks like dirt by comparison.). Consider this our Steam Deck FAQ. All that said, most games seem to work!

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

This course is designed for system administrators or cloud technologists who wish to further develop their skills for evaluating, deploying, and administering cloud services. This course is designed for system administrators who wish to plan, design, and implement cloud services for their organizations.

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Systems Administration Cloud Course Training 84

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system. For comparison’s sake. The Deck, like Valve’s Steam Machine before it, uses a custom operating system based on Linux, with a special Proton compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run.

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Hardware Linux Operating Systems Software 105

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Ravello Systems (now part of Oracle Cloud following their acquisition by Oracle) has a REST API that allows you to programmatically interact with their service. Operating Systems/Applications. Have fun reading!

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Operating Systems/Applications. More details are found in this article. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Programming Cloud Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. Operating Systems/Applications. has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Here’s Chip Zoller’s comparison of Gatekeper and Kyverno. Operating Systems/Applications. Via TecMint, James Kiarie explains how to use VirtualBox VMs on KVM in Linux. Nic Cope has an interesting post discussing Crossplane and some design/implementation considerations. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Linux Academy

MAY 3, 2019

Deployment of the role, by comparison, is easy. Using Ansible Facts to View System Properties. The post Ansible Roles Explained | Cheat Sheet appeared first on Linux Academy. It is worth noting here that I reference the httpd.yml , httpd.conf.j2 , and index.html files without full paths as they are stored within the role.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 9, 2023

It entails executing the code and examining its actual execution paths, data flows, and interactions with the system or environment. Validation of assumptions : Dynamic analysis allows developers to validate their assumptions about how the code interacts with different components, systems, or user inputs.

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Analysis Software Development Applications Tools 65

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client. There’s some good information in their article.

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Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

That includes anything elaborate with Linux, and anything that requires an external monitor. For comparison, the Spin 513 is largely competing with Mediatek and Intel Celeron machines. It’s important to understand what this system isn’t made to do. I just want to Zoom, man. No fingerprint sensor on this.

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Windows Comparison Intel Examples 105

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This means it runs as a cluster of systems so that there is no single point of failure. Other systems can then use Consul, either via HTTP or via DNS, to discover the providers of a given service. In this respect, you could make a comparison between Consul and etcd, the distributed key/value store bundled with CoreOS Linux.

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Linux Applications Examples System 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS). JJ Asghar provides some direct steps to getting PowerCLI 10+ working on Ubuntu Linux. I myself have done this a couple of times—it’s really straightforward.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Linux Academy

MAY 3, 2019

Deployment of the role, by comparison, is easy. Using Ansible Facts to View System Properties. The post Ansible Roles Explained | Cheat Sheet appeared first on Linux Academy Blog. It is worth noting here that I reference the httpd.yml , httpd.conf.j2 , and index.html files without full paths as they are stored within the role.

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Construction Linux Examples Comparison 83

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications. What does this mean?

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 12, 2020

Postman is a cross-platform application, so while my post was centered around Postman on Linux ( Ubuntu , specifically) the steps should be very similar—if not exactly the same—when using Postman on other platforms. This post assumes you’ve already installed Paw on your macOS system. Prerequisites.

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Authentication Comparison Linux Tools 78

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Seen this

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems. I hope you stick around.

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Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

Linux Academy

MAY 3, 2019

Deployment of the role, by comparison, is easy. Using Ansible Facts to View System Properties. The post Ansible Roles Explained | Cheat Sheet appeared first on Linux Academy. It is worth noting here that I reference the httpd.yml , httpd.conf.j2 , and index.html files without full paths as they are stored within the role.

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Construction Linux Examples Comparison 60

The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

I didn’t encounter any performance issues with that system when I ran it through my daily load of office work, which included bouncing between 10–12 Chrome tabs and spreadsheets, Slack, Twitter, Spotify, streaming, and occasional photo editing. It’s a load that has given weaker systems (like Lenovo’s $279 Chromebook Duet) some trouble.

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Storage System Windows Examples 82

The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

That’s all wrapped up in some big changes to how apps are distributed on Windows: Microsoft is opening up the Windows app store, allowing developers to put more kinds of apps in the store, and it’s allowing developers to bypass the fees in the store if they want to use their own payment systems. PWAs, which are progressive web apps.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2014

I mentioned at the start of this post that I’d provide some comparison to other methods for deploying containers in an automated fashion. Other solutions, like fleet, at least let you just point to a cluster of systems instead of a specific system. Interoperability Virtualization Automation Docker Linux OpenStack'

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Virtualization Linux Network Fashion 71

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. OpsWorks provides an event-driven configuration system with rich deployment tools that allow you to efficiently manage applications over their lifetime, including support for customizable deployments, rollback, patch management, auto scaling, and auto healing.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Although this post is a bit older (it’s from September of last year), it’s still an interesting comparison of both OpenStack and CloudStack. Operating Systems/Applications. General KVM Linux Networking OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet RedHat SDN Security Storage Virtualization VMware vSphere' Technology Short Take #30.

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