May 6, 2015
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Do you want to use OpenStack, but you’re afraid of the headaches of getting its architecture just right? Well, EMC is here to help with OpenStack reference architectures for three leading OpenStack vendors: Canonical, Mirantis, and Red Hat.
EMC partners with Canonical, Mirantis, and Red Hat for OpenStack. More>
May 6, 2015
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I’m already fond of Red Hat‘s latest flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1. Some of you, though, thanks to legacy Linux software, are still using RHEL 6.x. You’re in luck. Red Hat isn’t just still supporting RHEL 6.x, it’s improving it. The beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7, is out now.
May 4, 2015
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You’ve always been able to run containers on a variety of operating systems: Zones on Solaris; Jails on BSD; Docker on Linux and now Windows Server; OpenVZ on Linux, and so on. As Docker in particular and containers in general explode in popularity, operating system companies are taking a different tack. They’re now arguing that to make the most of containers you need a skinny operating system to go with them.
>Why? (Besides giving them a new revenue stream?)
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, the first Linux company to seize on the idea of a lightweight, container-friendly Linux, explained: “We think we can make the operating system effectively irrelevant.”
May 4, 2015
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Before we declare Docker the champion of the container wars, CoreOS begs to differ. If CoreOS was just doing this alone, it might not matter much. But, CoreOS has some big friends, Red Hat, Google, VMware and Apcera, that will make its efforts count.
Google, Red Hat, and VMware announce CoreOS container support. More>
May 4, 2015
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Too old for Linux? Nonsense! Too young? Please. Linux is for anyone of any age.
Consider James Anderson. He’s an 84 year-old volunteer at Free Geek, a Portland, Oregon non-profit organization, which rebuilds old computers for users who need them. As shown in a Linux Foundation video, he works there every Friday to rebuild laptops using Linux that can be sent to Africa.
May 1, 2015
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The most popular open-source cloud program, OpenStack, may also be the hardest to use. Just ask anyone trying to find good OpenStack architects and engineers. With its latest release OpenStack 11, Kilo, the level of expertise needed to master OpenStack is getting lower.