March 30, 2020
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Open-source programmers and engineers have been working on a wide variety of projects to beat coronavirus. These range from hospital management programs to speeding up drug development to building inexpensive ventilators. Now, Debian Linux, one of the oldest and largest Linux distribution communities, is throwing its programming resources behind a hack-a-thon trying to beat COVID-19.
March 28, 2020
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Some people in my life are still having trouble believing the Coronavirus is all that bad. Actually, it’s worse than many can imagine. Let’s look at some cold, hard numbers.
Yesterday, March 27, we went over 100,000 cases in the US. In the States we currently have a doubling rate of four days. That means by April 12, Easter, we’ll have well over a million cases.
The death count, 367 yesterday. is doubling every three days. And, that’s without our hospitals cracking under the strain. It’s all too likely, without beds and sufficient resources of even basic supplies such as N95 masks–never mind urgent care beds and ventilators–our hospitals will buckle and the death rate will spike.
Even without that, by April 12, the cold hard numbers say we’ll be seeing well over 10,000 deaths a day. We are Not going back to work, church, or normal life by then, no matter what anyone tells you.
March 27, 2020
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Well, wasn’t that fun? For about two hours, Google and its main services, such as Gmail, Google Docs, and YouTube were down for US East coast users. So, what happened?
It wasn’t just you: Why Google suffered widespread outages More>
March 26, 2020
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Kubernetes is the container orchestrator we all love. But it’s not unconditional love. Some users were a bit overwhelmed with the last release’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) infrastructure update, which required clusters to be explicitly updated. So, some folks are very happy to see that Kubernetes 1.18 is much more of a “fit and finish” release.
Kubernetes 1.18: Buffing up the leading container orchestrator More>
March 25, 2020
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SUSE, a major Linux and open-source cloud company, will help any organizations building medical devices to fight COVID-19.
The Germany-based company is doing this by offering free support and maintenance for its flagship SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating system and container technologies. These can be embedded in medical devices. These SUSE programs and their support packages are available immediately to meet the urgent demand to get medical devices into the hands of users as fast as possible.
SUSE offers free enterprise Linux support to medical devices manufacturers
March 24, 2020
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Welcome to life working at home, where the only one standing between you and all kinds of malware, ransomware and other security threats is, well, you.
Sure, the tech support desk will try to help you, but it’s not like they can stop by your desk and install a patch for you anymore. It’s a brave new scary world and we’re all trying to do the best we can. So, here, are six tips on how to keep your computer safe.
Don’t let the coronavirus make you a home office security risk More>