By Jim Lynch Why a MacOS user switched to Ubuntu Linux Apple’s MacOS has long been the de facto alternative to Windows. But what happens when a MacOS user tires of doing things Apple’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Red Hat needs to get real about the cloud
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•By Matt Asay Red Hat ended 2016 with a precipitous 12 percent drop in its stock price, courtesy of its CFO’s departure and lighter-than-expected revenues. Losing a CFO to a grass-is-greener …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu Core has the keys to IoT security
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•By Swapnil Bhartiya In October, a DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure took down a big chunk of the internet, making sites like Amazon and Twitter inaccessible. It was the first major attack …read more Source:: OpenSource
Move over Memcached and Redis, here comes Netflix’s Hollow
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•By Serdar Yegulalp A new open source project released by Netflix after two years in internal use is being positioned by the company as a powerful way to cache datasets that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Canonical offers direct Docker support to Ubuntu users
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Enterprise Ubuntu users running Docker in production now have a new source for Docker support: from Canonical. Earlier today, Canonical and Docker announced joint support for the commercial edition of Docker …read more Source:: OpenSource
Azure customer saves Microsoft from an RHEL disaster
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Broken authentication, improperly secured configuration files, and poor certificate management: Attackers could have exploited these issues to compromise any RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) instance on Microsoft Azure. Ian …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: The miracle of Lubuntu for older computers
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•By Jim Lynch Lubuntu breathes new life into older computers When it comes to Linux distributions you generally don’t hear a lot about Lubuntu. However, this Ubuntu spin can be a great help …read more Source:: OpenSource
Fedora 25 stakes out leading edge, not bleeding edge
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•By Serdar Yegulalp With the release of Red Hat’s 25th Fedora distribution of Linux, Fedora pursues a three-pronged attack, aiming to be a developer’s paradise, a flexible server, and a strong …read more Source:: OpenSource
Why a cross-platform Microsoft is good for your business
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•By Mary Branscombe Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member. Google is joining not just the .Net foundation but the steering committee, alongside RedHat and Samsung, which is …read more Source:: OpenSource
RHEL 7.3 touches up container tools, touches on IoT
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 was all about transforming the enterprise OS into a lean, mean, cutting-edge, container-running machine. Now, a year later, containers are such a stock element of …read more Source:: OpenSource