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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. I’m still using the Dell Latitude E7370, which continues—from a hardware perspective—to perform admirably. This seems to happen most frequently with presentations.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Cloudera’s Doug Cutting delivered a presentation at Hadoop World that outlined key forces driving the data world forward which shed some important insights on where enterprise technology is going. Turns out that in parallel with this growth in capabilities in hardware is the adoption of technology. By Bob Gourley. Why do we care?

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Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

Consider the typical items in your budget in a traditional IT environment like hardware maintenance costs, costs associated with OS patching, storage administration, and testing. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Make sure your staff are properly prepared with hands-on training from Linux Academy.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 7, 2019

This required a large, upfront capital investment, a lengthy procurement cycle, and placed the responsibility of creating, running, and maintaining all the hardware and software for the business on a group of dedicated resources. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Maximizing Your Business Value.

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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. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. One project that caught my attention was Tart , a CLI-driven tool that leverages the virtualization support present in macOS to run virtual macOS instances. network virtualization).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Servers/Hardware. tackles the question of whether an API gateway is needed if a service mesh is present. For those new to Linux virtualization—or even if you’ve been around Linux virtualization for a while—this article explaining how Intel VT-x, QEMU, and KVM work together is full of good information.

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Linux Virtualization Security Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

To further enhance the performance of a server running LightOS (a “brick” in their terminology), Lightbits also offers a hardware acceleration card called the LightField. Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. NVMe/TCP acceleration.

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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. The article also has a link to a paper that Burns will present at HotCloud ‘16. Thanks Jason!

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

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?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform. Macintosh iPhone Linux' An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Why I Might Leave OS X. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 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. Christian Mohn shares an approach of storing private information in a Git repository along with GitBook for publication/presentation.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 25, 2021

The same goes for users of Linux distributions running on Intel-based hardware.) Although you can have multiple versions of a formula present on the disk in the correct locations, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Homebrew will recognize them as “installed.”

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances. Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

You will learn how to painlessly deploy fairly complex applications that scale across multiple instances in cloud technologies including Windows Azure Chef, Chef Solo, Linux and Windows Tools. Groups will complete a cloud assessment of Fortune 100 firms using public information and make presentations to the client.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Servers/Hardware. I like some of the ideas Tauleria presents and hope to be able to implement some of them soon in my own project(s). Paul Fitzgerald shows how to use Hyper-V and Docker to build a VyOS 1.2.0 Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2016

Whitebox/britebox hardware with Linux-based NOSes. Think about all the various innovations/changes that are happening in the networking space: Devices providing streaming telemetry, instead of relying on polling (which doesn’t scale). The addition of application programming interfaces (APIs) to existing NOSes.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Read this post-mortem on an outage to gain a better idea of some of the challenges this additional complexity might present when it comes to troubleshooting. Paul Czarkowski walks you through creating your first Helm chart.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 5, 2011

Yesterday I completed co-presenting the three-part Ketchum webinar series on Tapping the Power of Mobile. The rise of independent hardware manufacturers could create new winners. Linux Mobile OS (in addition to Android and Bada) should not be discounted as key competitors. UNCERTAINTIES: OTHER. *

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. Only a true geek would be interested in this, but here’s some information on running OpenBSD in KVM on Linux. Given my past interest in OpenBSD and my present interest in KVM on Linux, this might be something I’ll be trying myself soon. That’s pretty handy. Technology Short Take #27.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 30, 2017

to predict what sorts of opportunities will emerge over the course of the year, and I’d like to remain open to tackling a new or different project should it present itself. but which I’m not going to list as projects include: Migrating to Linux on my primary laptop (a new Dell Latitude E7370; see my brief hardware review here ).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices. This topic is the subject of some debate given that some claim OVS internal ports perform much better than Linux veth devices. Servers/Hardware. Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems. MAC learning on OVS under OpenStack?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

But laying a digital foundation for the future presents unique challenges in the healthcare industry. You’ll be expected to have skills such as C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Linux development, Java, database administration, and an understanding of security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.

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Healthcare Systems Administration Business Intelligence Software 95

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. Skaugen takes some time to describe more fully the specifications around 2-in–1 devices, coming from hardware partners like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. General Linux Networking Storage Virtualization Hardware IDF2013 OpenStack' This would allow for greater flexibility with the Nova scheduler.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Servers/Hardware. For what it’s worth, I’ve never tried NetBSD, but I have yet to run into any similar issues with any distribution of Linux I’ve tried. If you’re a partner/vendor/reseller/whatever and you’re participating in user group meetings, don’t try to turn it into a sales presentation.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Per RFC 1925 , every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation. Nick Janetakis discusses some of the differences it’s made for some of his Docker images to switch to using Alpine Linux as the base (instead of the more common Ubuntu or Debian base images).

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Fuzzing firmware presents a specific set of challenges that are not often present together in other targets. This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. Environment Setup.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Fuzzing firmware presents a specific set of challenges that are not often present together in other targets. This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. Environment Setup.

Programming 52

Programming Exercises Linux Authentication 52

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Thomas Graf explains why the Linux kernel community is replacing iptables with BPF. William Lam discusses the new MAC learning functionality present in vSphere 6.7 Yep, get used to it folks—it’s where the industry is headed. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you. Career/Soft Skills.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration. For example, their product runs natively as an agent/daemon/service on various UNIX platforms, various Linux distributions, and all recent versions of Windows Server.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube. Servers/Hardware. Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? Running vSphere 6? Good stuff.

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Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Kenneth Hui—with whom I have the privilege of co-presenting at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in less than a month—has a comprehensive write-up on using Vagrant and Chef to build an HA OpenStack installation on your laptop. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. Puppet code examples are available here.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup. This post contains a link to a useful presentation on the essential parts of EVPN. Servers/Hardware. The workflow incorporates Ansible, git, Jenkins, and Gerrit.

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