Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).

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Linux Open Source Windows Operating Systems 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Dataconomy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It’s packed with tools for exploring hardware, software, and wireless protocols. Soon, custom firmware emerged, expanding the attack canvas to Android and Windows, spamming users with unwanted advertisements, and potentially compromising device security. Wall of Flippers is an open-source Python project offers a beacon of hope.

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Windows Linux Operating Systems Wireless 41

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Ulrich Speidel shares some of the findings after the volcanic eruption in Tonga.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 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. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Alpine Linux 3.5 Nothing this time around! Way to go, Daniel! was recently released.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. configurations. Nothing this time around! Very handy!

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. 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

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. 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

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Open Source Linux Software Software 100

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. Servers/Hardware. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. I’m a 1Password user (just wish they’d release a “real” Linux client and bring back support for local vaults to all platforms), so seeing this article on how Agile Bits (the company behind 1Password) is using Terraform with AWS was pretty cool. Nothing this time around (sorry!). Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Servers/Hardware. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. What’s that? See here.).

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

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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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. 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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Servers/Hardware. Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Since the launch of the.NET Core open source development platform in June 2016, it can be used on non-Windows machines. Java is more than 20 years old; it is used by millions of developers and on billions of devices around the world, and can be run on any hardware and operating system through the Java virtual machine.

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Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Cilium, the open source project working to bring eBPF-powered networking and security to Kubernetes environments, has hit the 1.0 Servers/Hardware. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. Check back next time! and vSphere.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Servers/Hardware. I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

It would be great to see Docker get support for connecting containers directly to Open vSwitch (OVS), which is generally considered the de facto standard for networking on Linux hosts. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, but I’ll keep my eyes open for more content to include next time.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

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. Thomas Maurer has a nice post on first steps with Windows Containers. Hyper-V on Nano in Windows Server 2016 TP3? Or how about Nano from Windows Server 2016 TP3 as a Hyper-V guest?

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. Servers/Hardware. 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. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. Technology Short Take #30.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The courses are designed to be completed in succession, starting with the Apple Device Support course, which focuses on the skills and expertise you’ll need as a help desk professional, technical coordinator, or service provider for an organization that relies on Apple hardware and software.

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SCRUM Project Management Course Network 135

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

Resources 66

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

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. These are all basically network attacks, enabled by poorly configured IoT devices for true IoT hacking, I'm thinking you're going to need a bit more than a Kali Linux box on your side.

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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. These are all basically network attacks, enabled by poorly configured IoT devices for true IoT hacking, I'm thinking you're going to need a bit more than a Kali Linux box on your side.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Shifting gears a bit, Golub talks a bit more about the changes over the last 3 years in regards to Docker (the open source project) itself. Hykes says these rules are the impetus behind the separation between Enterprise Edition and Community Edition, and why there are tools like Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows.

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Linux Open Source Windows Security 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It manages all the hardware and all the software on a system. So what do we mean by managing all the hardware? That program, then, handled all the issues of hardware and software. And now, what has happened is we've got much more massive hardware, much more massive memory, much more massive applications. And software?

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Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Servers/Hardware. Michael Dales shares his experience trying out Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a Linux development environment.

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