Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As a result, I’ve stepped up my work on a Linux migration, and I’m happy to report that I’ve made some progress. Linux Distribution. I’ve looked at a fair number of Linux distributions. I also went back and looked again at Ubuntu derivatives like Linux Mint. Here’s a quick update on where things stand so far.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Linux Distribution. Chat/Instant messaging: I continue to use the Slack Linux client and Pidgin.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Shortly after I announced my intention to migrate to Linux as my primary desktop OS , a number of other folks contacted me and said they had made the same choice or they had been encouraged by my decision to also try it themselves. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? Q: Which distribution of Linux did you choose?

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Microsoft is planning to build its new Chromium-based Edge browser into Windows 10 later this year. Microsoft has started testing this 20H2 update with Windows Insiders today, and the company plans to use the 20H2 naming for testers and commercial customers and a more friendly name for consumers.

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Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. Microsoft Certified Azure Developer – Exam AZ-203 Prep course is first up, with flash cards, hands-on labs, and in-depth content to help you pass the AZ-203 exam and get your certification. Want to know more? All About Azure.

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Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. Microsoft Certified Azure Developer – Exam AZ-203 Prep course is first up, with flash cards, hands-on labs, and in-depth content to help you pass the AZ-203 exam and get your certification. Want to know more? All About Azure.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. Microsoft Certified Azure Developer – Exam AZ-203 Prep course is first up, with flash cards, hands-on labs, and in-depth content to help you pass the AZ-203 exam and get your certification. Want to know more? All About Azure.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 28, 2021

I also have 17 Microsoft Edge tabs open, which take up 535MB of memory. As I sit at my desk typing this blog, I have 15 Chrome tabs eating up 790MB 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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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. If you think that sounds like a pretty intense role reversal for Apple and Microsoft, well, you’re not wrong. Microsoft announced Windows 11 today.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. Gabriel Sieben ruminates on the potential dangers of Microsoft Pluton , a new security chip co-developed by Microsoft and AMD. What do I have in store for you this time around? Networking.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Microsoft is working on Office updates for the new Mac silicon, and Word and Excel are already running natively on the new Mac processors, with PowerPoint even using Apple’s Metal tech for rendering.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Peyton Smith and Mitchell Moser share seven common Microsoft Active Directory misconfigurations that adversaries tend to abuse. Networking.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Microsoft has released the first preview version of its Android apps support in Windows 11. I’ve installed the preview version on two systems — a gaming rig with a Core i9 11900K and Microsoft’s Surface Pro X — to get a feel for exactly how well Android apps run on Windows 11. The experience of installing apps is very simple.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2017

The next version of Windows Server will let you run Linux containers using Hyper-V isolation (and connect to them with bash scripts), encrypt network segments on software-defined networks and deploy the Host Guardian Service as a Shielded VM rather than needing a three-node physical cluster.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

That might be an easier lift for developers than it is to bring games to Stadia, which requires developers to port their games to Linux so they can run on Google’s server hardware — and it doesn’t hurt that plenty of companies have been bringing their console games to PC recently, including Sony. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge.

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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. App Services : Microsoft’s suite of serverless technologies. The post Going Serverless: Where to Start appeared first on Linux Academy Blog. Why use it?

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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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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. I hope that you find something useful here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. Microsoft offers a similar service called Microsoft Azure Stack. The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back. What a time to be alive: Microsoft has its own Linux distribution.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 19, 2024

NVIDIA’s strategic goal with NIM is to foster a network of AI-prepared containers that are built upon its hardware infrastructure, with these specialized microservices acting as the principal software component for organizations eager to accelerate their AI initiatives.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip. First, that there is a CLI for Microsoft 365. Thinking of buying an M1-powered Mac? You may find this list helpful. UEFI implants and executable PNGs ?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Dennis Felsing shares some thoughts on switching to macOS after 15 years on Linux. Here’s some information on why Microsoft Exchange stopped delivering e-mail messages on January 1, 2022. BIOS updates without a reboot , and under Linux first? What do you think microsegmentation means ? Yes please!

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Who would have thought that one day you’d refer to a Microsoft web site for instructions on configuring something in Linux? John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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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. Microsoft seems to be all about shocking the world these days (see my related mention of their SQL Server announcement below). At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC).

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The overall form factor — a convertible 2-in-1 tablet with an attachable keyboard that also doubles as a protective case — is the same as last year’s model , but Kano has made big improvements to the internal hardware. The new model is the continuation of Kano’s ambitions to expand into the educational computing space.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Here’s an article describing how to establish a site-to-site VPN between a Cisco ASA and Microsoft Azure. Servers/Hardware. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. The post has a nice list of Linux replacements for popular OS X apps. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Interesting.

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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. In Vehicle Infotainment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

To contrast it with the usual lifecycle management, imagine for the sake of argument that some of your applications run on top of EnGarde Secure Linux. That EnGarde runs on an end-of-life server doesn’t mean it will install on the new hardware you have no choice about buying when your end-of-life server becomes an expired server.

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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. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full-stack engineer. 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.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and now an architect at Microsoft Azure, has a blog post about how Kubernetes enables containers-as-a-service (CaaS), which in turn is the foundation for the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. Linux Containers take center stage - Linux Containers of all forms, will mature and become interoperability building blocks of the cloud computing world.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full-stack engineer. 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.

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