March 12, 2015
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Much of Linux’s early business success was based on the Linux, Apache, MySQL and Python/PHP/Perl (LAMP) stack. Looking ahead Red Hat and Docker is hoping that “RHELDoc,” a software stack made up of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Docker containers, can do for the cloud and data center what LAMP did for servers.
Red Hat partners with Docker to create Linux/Docker software stack. More>
March 10, 2015
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Some things go great together. Bread and butter, baseball and spring, and Agile and DevOps. But since you can’t taste or easily watch Agile in DevOps, let me explain why they go together so well.
First, a quick refresher: DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers working together using Agile for IT services from their design to production support. It’s also not some special sauce you can just add to your company and suddenly everything IT will be better. If you think that simply embracing DevOps will magically make things better, you’re indulging in Cargo Cult behavior and you’ll get no-where.
March 10, 2015
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“If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen” could be the unofficial motto of the Linux kernel community. Over the years, there has been one conflict after another in the heart of the the Linux development community, the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). Now, in order to make the LKML more peaceful, the group has adopted a Code of Conduct.
This title isn’t quite accurate; it’s not a code of conduct. Rather, it describes a method to resolve conflicts. It says:
March 7, 2015
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OpenSSL, arguably the world’s most important Web security library with its support for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) in such popular Web servers as Apache and Nginx, has had real trouble. First, there was HeartBleed and more recently there is FREAK. It’s been one serious security problem after another. Now, the NCC Group, a well-regarded security company, will be auditing OpenSSL’s code to catch errors before they appear in the wild.
March 6, 2015
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On Feb. 26, the Federal Communications Commission voted, along strict party lines, to approve new net neutrality rules by reclassifying broadband as a regulated public utility. So does that save the Internet or lock it up in a bureaucratic, censored, expensive prison?
I’ve been using the Internet since the ’70s, and reporting on it since the ’80s, and in all that time I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much nonsense said about it as has been said over the past year.
March 6, 2015
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Great, just great. FREAK, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) security hole, isn’t only in programs that use Apple’s SSL implementation or old OpenSSL. We now know that FREAK is present in Microsoft’s Secure Channel (SChannel) stack too.