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Two years ago when openSUSE decided to move the base of openSUSE Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), they were entering uncharted territory. SLE is a tightly controlled enterprise ship that runs on mission critical systems. On the other hand openSUSE has been a community-driven project that, despite sponsorship from SUSE, is relatively independent. It became clear, though, that moving … Read More

In this series previewing the self-paced Containers for Developers and Quality Assurance (LFS254) training course from The Linux Foundation, we’ve covered installing Docker, introduced Docker Machine, and some basic commands for performing Docker container and image operations. In the three sample videos below, we’ll take a look at Dockerfiles and Docker Hub. Docker can build an image by reading the … Read More

The WannaCry ransomware epidemic hit hard: the malware to infect over 300,000 victims around the globe causing chaos. Factories, the UK’s National Health Service, the Russian postal service and even Chinese government agencies were amongst the victims of the indiscriminate WannaCry attack before the outbreak was brought under control – although not before costing billions in damages and lost productivity. … Read More

Cisco’s “network intuitive” will enable the scale, complexity, and security required by the billions of devices to be added to the internet in future, according to CEO Chuck Robbins. “We are going to build the secure, intelligent platform on which you can run the business of the future,” Robbins said during his keynote at Cisco Live Las Vegas on Monday, … Read More

With the growth of technology and new ways of working, innovation is playing a huge role in the workplace. The most successful organizations are those that can prep for the future and push the envelope creatively to find the next innovative idea. But what if how we have been thinking about innovation is all wrong? Open innovation is a newer … Read More

The Linux platform can do quite a lot of things; it can be just about anything need it to be and function in nearly any form. One of the many areas in which Linux excels is that of storage. With the help of a few constituent pieces, you can have a powerful NAS or cloud storage solution up and running. … Read More

Academic researchers depend on a variety of highly specialized software to power their studies. The commercial software options in common use are expensive; either investigators must purchase a large number of licenses for common applications like data analysis tools, or they have to buy costly single licenses for specialized software, such as an application for a specific laboratory device. It’s … Read More

Watching your favorite TV shows and movies series is what you all guys do every day. Flash, Iron Fist or Moana and many more awesome movies and tv shows that we love to watch. The problems come when you are traveling. Many of your shows or movies are restricted to a particular region and cannot be accessed when you are … Read More

Linus Torvalds took to the stage in China for the first time Monday at LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China in Beijing. In front of a crowd of nearly 2,000, Torvalds spoke with VMware Head of Open Source Dirk Hohndel in one of their famous “fireside chats” about what motivates and surprises him and how aspiring open source developers can … Read More

What’s the logical next step for software-defined networks, software-defined storage, and the like? The software-defined data center of course. That’s what Red Hat is bringing to market today in its Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure. This is a production-ready, open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software stack. This is a software-centric architecture, which tightly integrates compute, storage, networking, and virtualization resources to help … Read More

After much anticipation, LinuxCon, ContainerCon and Cloud Open China is finally here. Some of the world’s top technologists and open source leaders are gathering at the China National Convention Center in Beijing to discover and discuss Linux, containers, cloud technologies, networking, microservices, and more. Attendees will also exchange insights and tips on how to navigate and lead in the open … Read More

CoreOS’s rkt started at the beginning of 2014 as a security-focused alternative to Docker. The project aimed to create a signature verification of cloud-native apps by default; the intention was to guarantee the integrity of the apps. It also stepped away from the central-daemon design of Docker, which requires root privileges for all operations. By contrast, the rkt process is … Read More

With so much innovation happening in open source projects, why not take advantage of it across your product and supply chain? I’ve been writing for a while on topics related to product and supply chain management in the context of open source communities, and I’ve noticed a few consistent themes in my articles and blog posts. Most notable is the … Read More

Now that they choose to ditch their powerful Unity desktop environment for GNOME, the Ubuntu Desktop development team has a lot of work on their hands testing various components and technologies that aren’t quite familiar. In his report last week, Canonical’s Will Cooke revealed the fact that the Ubuntu Desktop team is working hard on implementing a testing infrastructure based … Read More

Nearly two years ago, Toyota stunned much of the auto world when it revealed that it had no plans to offer Apple CarPlay or Android Auto on any of its vehicles. Instead, Toyota said that it was going to build an infotainment system of its own. New reports indicate that work on that system is proceeding quickly, and it’s going … Read More