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. You can create code (a function) that does a specific task, throw it into your FaaS provider (Google, AWS, Azure, etc.), What is serverless framework?

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Linux Cloud Architecture Open Source 92

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. Servers/Hardware. The folks at Netskope have a pair of blog posts on GCP OAuth token hijacking in Google Cloud ( part 1 , part 2 ). Networking.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Mete Atamel has a great walkthrough of using Workflows on Google Cloud to connect various API-driven services together. Operating Systems/Applications. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post. Programming.

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

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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Open Source Linux Automotive Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Via Teri Radichel , I saw this article from Google Project Zero about zero-click security vulnerabilities in Zoom. As I understand it, this is the culmination of an effort launched about a year ago when Google started signing the “distroless” images. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

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.

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Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Developed by Google, programming language Go has gone from being a curiosity in the world of programming to a language that many would not hesitate to describe as “the great discovery.” Tech giants such as Google and Yahoo, along with NASA and Reddit, use Python for their websites. It is available for GNU / Linux.

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Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. WSL, which is the part of Windows that lets you run Linux. In 2019, I think you had said to Wired , “The operating system is no longer the most important layer for us. ” This is a pressure that every operating system feels.

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Windows Microsoft Operating Systems System 80

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The first was on RESTful control of Cumulus Linux ACLs (this one isn’t actually sFlow-related); the second was on combining sFlow telemetry and RESTful APIs for visibility and control in campus networks. Servers/Hardware. Both articles are worth reviewing if hardware selection is an important aspect of your role.

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Vmware Linux Network Cloud 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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. If this is the case, I’d highly recommend working on that.).

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Seth Vargo walks through how to use Terraform to setup and configure a Google Cloud Run service. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances. The investment in your family will pay off in later years, trust me.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems. Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. Ben Thompson has an in-depth analysis of how Google is challenging AWS. Operating Systems/Applications. Alpine Linux 3.5

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Also, here’s Google Project Zero’s write-up (along with a support FAQ from Google on mitigation).

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog. CIO Dashboard. Dark Reading.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

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. Servers/Hardware. What does this mean?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. YACOOS (Yet Another Container-Optimized Operating System) has gone GA; this time it’s Google’s (imaginatively-named) “Container-Optimized OS”. You can get more details via this Google blog post. You can get more details via this Google blog post.

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. Operating Systems/Applications. Like Google GVisor, I suspect this will see limited uptake (at least initially) since it requires a specific base image in order to work. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog. CIO Dashboard.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog. CIO Dashboard.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85!

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog. CIO Dashboard. Dark Reading.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Google Online Security Blog. Google Online Security Blog is Google’s own security blog. CIO Dashboard.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

The first escalation occurred when Apple laid out in clear terms why it has no plans to ever approve cloud gaming services from its tech rivals Google and Microsoft. The company is also suing Google on similar grounds, after Google removed Fortnite from its Play Store. Epic’s complaint argues that behavior also breaks the law.

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Apple Industry Cloud Mobile 145

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. However, until now, most of the focus on unikernels has overlooked the operations side. Sorry, Charlie! Here’s a write-up by Larry Smith Jr.

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Tech Republic

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Learn how to use the hidden browser window controls in ChromeOS for an enhanced browsing experience with this step-by-step guide.

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Windows How To Open Source Operating Systems 96

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

4K, which Amazon says is coming soon, might be more of a challenge for Luna on this hardware, especially without dialing down graphical settings in some demanding games. Amazon’s main cloud streaming rivals, Microsoft and Google, are using entirely different hardware and operating systems for their own cloud gaming services.

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Windows Hardware Linux Microsoft 96

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. The Internet Era: 00s • Internet changes everything • Open source movement gains traction (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) • Tech selling ads, bits, hardware & services • Google Dominates. The Software Era: ?

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Open Source Linux Software Software 100

The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

But I’m just as interested in something they share: their attempts to bring their desktop operating systems into the modern era of what I’ll call “Managed Operating Systems.” That’s not to say operating systems like macOS or Windows 10 are un managed, of course, but they’ve historically tended to be a little more open.

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Windows Operating Systems Linux System 74

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: There are at least two complete operating systems available for pentesters. The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security. There are other pentesting operating systems like Parrot. It has its own operating system, its own resources, and its own drive. And it’s free.

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Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52