February 3, 2015
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, a leading Linux developer, recently announced that he had finally retired his “traditional” Linux distro for all “rolling-release” Linux systems. He’s not the only one; rolling-release distros are becoming much more popular. So, you ask, what the heck is a rolling-release Linux distro? Well, I’ll tell you.
February 3, 2015
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You can treat your cloud just like it was a data center full of servers with system administrators cracking the whip over them, but that misses the point of how to get the most from your cloud with DevOps.
The real secret of clouds is that they enable developers and system administrators (operators) to work together, hence DevOps: The portmanteau of development and operations.
January 30, 2015
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Private vs. hybrid vs. public and IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS. Here’s my primer on how to start figuring out what’s what with clouds.
First, you do get that a cloud is not just a bunch of servers, right? To refresh your memory, the key difference for users is that cloud computing services are delivered as a utility. Got it? Good.
Moving on, there are three basic ways clouds are presented to users. These are public, private, and hybrid. If anyone can access a cloud service simply by using a credit card or for free — for example, Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Office 365, Dropbox file storage, or Amazon Web Services (AWS) — then it’s a public cloud.
January 30, 2015
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In the United States, Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest holiday of the sports year. Watching it is easy. You just get together with your fellow fan friends at whomever’s home has the biggest HDTV and bring out the beer and chips. But, if you can’t get to a TV, or if you’re out of the country, you can still watch the National Football League’s championship over the Internet.
January 30, 2015
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What do 3,000 or so Ubuntu server and cloud users have to say about the cloud that you might care about? A lot. Besides having its own cloud offering, Ubuntu OpenStack, Ubuntu is the most popular operating system by more than two to one on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). In other words, Ubuntu cloud users know what they’re talking about when they talk cloud.
January 29, 2015
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Who says you can’t have fast, good and cheap? The Document Foundation‘s latest release of the most popular open-source office suite, LibreOffice 4.4 is quite fast on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows; it works well on all three desktop operating systems, and it won’t cost you a penny.
The best open-source office suite, LibreOffice 4.4, gets new release. More>