December 12, 2018
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Usually, when I get review hardware in, it’s not a big deal. It’s like working in a candy shop. At first, it seems great (“All the candy I can eat!”). Then, you quickly get sick of dealing with the extra equipment.
But, every now and again, I get a really fine machine, like Dell’s latest XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop. And I get excited again.
December 12, 2018
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Opera claims its eponymous web browser is “far faster than Firefox Quantum 58.” Mozilla claims its better use of CPU time makes Firefox really fast. And when I turned on Edge the other day, it claimed it’s the fastest browser of all.
OK, they can’t all be right. So, which Windows 10 web browser is the fastest of them all?
I put the most popular Windows 10 browsers to the test. These were Windows 10’s built-in Edge 41 and the increasingly decrepit Internet Explorer (IE) 11. I also checked out the latest versions of Chrome 64, Firefox 58, and Opera 51.
December 12, 2018
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If you want to use a safe third-party container, smart people know they should turn to Bitnami. This company packages, deploys, and maintains applications in virtually any format for any platform. Now, at KubeCon in Seattle, Bitnami announced its Kubernetes release: Bitnami Kubernetes Production Runtime (BKPR) 1.0, a production-ready open source project.
December 11, 2018
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How do you store data across a Kubernetescontainer cluster? With etcd. This essential part of Kubernetes has been managed by CoreOS/Red Hat. No longer. Now, the open-source etcd project has been moved from Red Hat to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
December 11, 2018
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When last I spoke to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical‘s founder, in Berlin, he told me that — when it comes to Kubernetes — enterprise “Kubernetes runs on Ubuntu.” Kubernetes, the most popular cloud container orchestration program, “makes life easier for people who want portability across public clouds. With multiple Kubernetes clusters you have one common way to run workloads on Linux over both private and public clouds.”
Of course, these days, it’s hard to find an enterprise technology company that isn’t pushing its Kubernetes credentials. Besides IBM/Red Hat, the acquisition made because of Kubernetes, Cisco, HPE, Microsoft, and Oracle, to name a few, are all adding Kubernetes to their software portfolios. Canonical, however, has been deploying Kubernetes almost since Google first rolled Kubernetes out the door in 2014.
December 7, 2018
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A little over twenty years ago, US Attorney General Janet Reno stated Microsoft had “used its monopoly power to develop a choke hold on the browser software needed to access the internet.” Although Microsoft would lose United States v. Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft survived. The root cause of this near disaster? Microsoft’s attempt to kill off Netscape,Internet Explorer’s web browser rival. That was then. This is now. This week Microsoft announced it was abandoning its inhouse, proprietary web browser: Edge.
Underlining that today’s Microsoft is not Gates and Ballmer’s Microsoft, Microsoft is replacing Edge’s EdgeHTML rendering engine with open-source Chromium. You know, Edge’s arch-rival Chrome’s engine.
For years, we looked closely as first one browser and then another challenged Internet Explorer for desktop web browser domination in the browser wars. Then, in 2012, Chrome, briefly, came out on top. Microsoft’s days of dominance were ending. By 2016, Microsoft’s time as number one had ended.
Edge? It was never a contender.
Edge goes Chromium, and open source wins the browser wars. More>