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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

Photo: Linux Mint. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Teams now runs on Linux. Which Linux?

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Ecco le ragioni che spingono i migliori manager IT a lasciare l’azienda

CIO Business Intelligence

Tuttavia i manager di alto livello possono abbandonare anche per una miriade di altri motivi, anche se i loro superiori sono delle superstar. Gli snack gratuiti, i tavoli da ping-pong e le feste natalizie “non sono cultura d’ufficio, sono vantaggi d’ufficio” che, secondo i sondaggi, non interessano alla maggior parte delle persone. “Ci

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

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. This is a pretty detailed write-up of a remote code execution vulnerability prsent on most Dell computers (courtesy of Dell SupportAssist).

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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

It originally ran a custom Linux operating system that reviewers loved ( Laptop Mag ’s Mark Spoonauer said it was “ten times simpler to use than any Windows notebook”) and was generally heralded as a new kind of computer with tremendous mass appeal. Dell, HP, Lenovo and others all chased after the netbook idea furiously.

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Looking Ahead: My 2017 Projects

Scott Lowe

Launch an open source book project. Since my efforts at making code contributions to an open source project aren’t going so well (though I’m going to keep moving in that direction), I figured I’d contribute in a way I know I can do. This is something I’ve been tossing around for a while now.

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Technology Short Take #36

Scott Lowe

with the Floodlight open source controller. Using Dell EqualLogic with VMFS? It’s kind of funny: I was doing a bit of reading on ZeroVM , a new open source lightweight hypervisor, trying to understand where it fits in the overall virtualization space. I reserve the right to revise my view in the future.).

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Cloud microservices make their play

Cloud Musings

Cloud services brokerage, still struggling to be even recognized as a real market, is being seriously threatened by open-source approaches from giants like Booz Allen Hamilton’s Jellyfish and the European Commission-funded CompatibleOne open-source broker. So what about platform-as-a-service? Stay tuned.

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