Ubuntu Cloud News – October 2016

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Canonical announced the availability of a new service for Ubuntu which any user can enable on their current installations – the Canonical Livepatch Service.

Announcing SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

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SUSE® today announced SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, the latest enterprise-ready OpenStack platform for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds.

The Dirty Cow Linux bug: A silly name for a serious problem

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According to the Red Hatbug report, “a race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. Thankfully RHEL 5 and 6 seem unaffected by the bug.

Ubuntu’s OpenStack on IBM’s Big Iron

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Not only is it the most deployed operating system on public clouds, its version of OpenStack accounts for over half of OpenStack cloud deployments, used by the likes of Deutsche Telekom, Bloomberg and Time Warner Cable.

What’s new with Zimbra Collaboration 8.7

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(Nasdaq:SYNC), the trusted multiscreen technology and monetization partner for video, internet and communications providers, device manufacturers and enterprises, announced the latest product release—Zimbra Collaboration 8.

Red Hat Platform-as-a-Service cloud loves containers

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Red Hat is making it clear it’s all containers all the time in its Red Hat OpenShift cloud. When Red Hat launched its OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud in 2013, the focus was on making life easier for developers. OpenShift’s theme remains the same but Red Hat has made it crystal clear that developing on the cloud today … Read More

Missiles to Legos: 10 reasons to run Linux instead of Windows

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From the Large Hadron Collider to the Tesla Model S, this 25-year-old operating system can be found in some amazing places. But there’s one place Windows still has the edge. Over the years, I’ve had my fair share of disagreements with both Linux and Linux users. But as Linux has entered its second quarter-century, I’ve found myself thinking about all … Read More

Samba 4.5 Is a Massive Release That Improves Security, Adds Many New Features

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Samba 4.5 has been released and it is the latest, newest stable branch of the free widely-used, cross-platform, and open-source software project that re-implements the SMB/CIFS networking protocol on UNIX-like platforms. Samba is being used by default in numerous, if not all GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as on Apple’s macOS, to allow users to access network shares from other computers that run Microsoft Windows and to interact with them to exchange any file format that exists today. As expected, Samba 4.5 is a massive release, which not only resolves many of the issues from previous versions but also introduces a bunch of new features and enhancements to make this open source software even more reliable and secure. As such, to improve security, Samba 4.5 comes with NTLMv1 … Read More