April 19, 2015
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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.
April 17, 2015
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I’ve used almost every desktop on the planet, but Ubuntu 15.04 with the Unity 7 interface may be the easiest. Heck if my now 82-year-old mother-in-law can be an Ubuntu user, you can be one too!
Six Clicks for Linux beginners: Ubuntu 15.04, Vivid Vervet. More>
April 16, 2015
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The good news is that open-source software is used in the vast majority, 78 percent, of businesses. The bad news is that far less do even a half-way decent job of managing it.
It’s an open-source world: ?78 percent of companies run open-source software. More>
April 15, 2015
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NGNIX‘s slogan should borrow Avis’s iconic tagline, “When you’re number two, you try harder.” While Apache is far more popular, 50.7 percent to NGINX’s 14.4 percent – by Netcraft’s web server count — NGINX is trying hard with its latest update, NGINX Plus Release 6 (R6), to challenge Apache for the top spot.
April 15, 2015
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Remember Jennicam? Back in 1996, Jennifer Ringley decided to record her life one image at a time every three minutes. Her life blew up. Her site briefly became one of the the top 10 most popular sites on the web. She was on Letterman, her story made it to The Wall Street Journal, she appeared on This American Life, and her public/private life spiralled out of control. She left the internet in 2003. She hasn’t really been back.
April 14, 2015
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You can’t judge a book by its cover, or a Linux by its interface. If you glance at Ubuntu 15.04, Vivid Vervet, you won’t see a lot different from Ubuntu 14.10. Don’t let first impressions fool you. Underneath that slick Unity 7.x interface, there’s a lot of changes.
The five biggest changes in Ubuntu 15.04, Vivid Vervet. More>