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April 21, 2015
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Ubuntu 15.04 container-friendly Linux for cloud and servers arrives soon

Don’t look now but Ubuntu has become the Linux for clouds. On the AmazonElastic Compute Cloud (EC2), for example, Ubuntu is the most popular operating system by an almost two to one margin. 64 percent of production OpenStack users have also chosen Ubuntu to stay on top. Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is adding even more cloud and container functionality to the next version, Ubuntu 15.04.

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April 20, 2015
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Jokers, hackers, and airline safety

Chris Roberts, security researcher and founder and CTO of One World Labs, is well known for speaking his mind on airlines not taking in-flight networking security seriously. They may not, but the FBI does. After Roberts tweeted, “Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? “PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone ? :)” He found himself detained at the next airport for four hours and his gear confiscated.

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April 19, 2015
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Containers: In the beginning

Today, containers are the hot topic of cloud computing. With them, system designers and cloud architects can have as many as six times the number of server applications on a hardware server as you can with a virtual machine (VM).

But, for all the excitement about Docker, the headline container technology, and how even Microsoft has embraced this open-source technology, we’ve never really looked at containers’ origins. You see, this “new” technology is decades old.

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