March 3, 2015
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With Linux 4.0, you may never need to reboot your operating system again.
One reason to love Linux on your servers or in your data-center is that you so seldom needed to reboot it. True, critical patches require a reboot, but you could go months without rebooting. Now, with the latest changes to the Linux kernel you may be able to go years between reboots.
March 2, 2015
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Chromebooks are pretty darn handy. Even some hardcore Windows users now acknowledge that a Chromebook might be just what you need for work. But, as great as Chromebooks are, and as much progress as Google has made in getting “Web-only” apps such as Google Docs to work offline, there are still times that you want an application that’s only available off-line such as the LibreOffice office suite or the GIMP photo editor. For those times, it’s darn handy to be able to run a Linux desktop on a Chromebook.
It’s been possible to do that, thanks to the Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment (Crouton), for some time. But, what you couldn’t do was have a Linux desktop, such as Ubuntu or Debian, on the same screen while you were running Chrome OS.
Now you can.
How to run Linux and Chrome OS on your Chromebook Simultaneously. More>
March 2, 2015
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When you think spy agencies and the cloud, you probably think about the National Security Agency (NSA) snooping on the cloud. Well, guess what? Intelligence agencies use the cloud for their own IT as well. Or, at least the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), aka the Company, does with its own private Amazon cloud.
Is cloud computing secure enough for spies? CIA bets on Amazon. More>
February 27, 2015
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Everyone loves clouds these days. But telecomm companies are understandably cautious about entrusting their technology to the cloud. Wouldn’t you be if a failure mean dropping phone or data services to millions of customers? Still, Juniper Networks and Canonical, Ubuntu Linux‘s parent company are certain they can devise a carrier-grade OpenStack cloud for virtualizing core networks and network functions.
Canonical and Juniper team up on carrier-grade OpenStack SDN. More>
February 27, 2015
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The newly minted Cloud Foundry Foundation would like you to believe that the open-source war for the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has been won and that it’s the winner. Red Hat with its OpenShift PaaS begs to differ.
Red Hat invites all to work on its OpenShift PaaS cloud. More>
February 26, 2015
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today to accept FCC chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal that the Commission “use its Title II authority to implement and enforce open Internet protections.” Or, to put it in plain English, your ISP must provide equal broadband access to you or any site — Amazon, Netflix, etc. — without slowing down or speeding up sites for additional fees.