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Some genuinely exciting news piqued my interest at this year’s DockerCon, that being the new operating system (OS) LinuxKit, which was announced and is immediately on offer from the undisputed heavyweight container company, Docker. The container giant has announced a flexible, extensible operating system where system services run inside containers for portability. You might be surprised to hear that even includes the … Read More

While the options for Linux computers from commercial vendors are still needles in the proverbial haystack of OEM Windows equipment out there, there are more and more options available to a consumer who wants a good, solid device that’s ready-to-use with no messing around. Still, there are more Linux OEM computers than I could look at for one article—and the options tend … Read More

New Release of the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Red Hat OpenStack Platform This week, we’re thinking about Red Hat, particularly as we are in Boston for the Red Hat Summit (May 2-4) and the week after for the OpenStack Summit (May 8-11). And we have some exciting news to share! Today we are announcing the next generation of the … Read More

Containers are becoming the de facto approach for deploying applications, because they are easy to use and cost-effective. With containers, you can significantly cut down the time to go to market if the entire team responsible for the application lifecycle is involved — whether they are developers, Quality Assurance engineers, or Ops engineers. The new Containers for Developers and Quality … Read More

Today, if you’re building a new product or service, open source software is likely playing a role. But many entrepreneurs and product managers still struggle with how to build a successful business purely on open source. The big secret of a successful open source business is that “it’s about way more than the code,” says John Mark Walker, a well-known … Read More

Is the Raspberry Pi ready to take over the low-end thin client market? This week, NComputing unveiled the RX-HDX, its second Raspberry Pi based thin client. In addition, ViewSonic announced a software upgrade for the Pi-based SC-T25 thin client that it announced last year. The future of thin clients — low-cost, remotely managed virtual client computers — has always been … Read More

Imagine taking Linux Mint, placing the Cinnamon desktop on it and then theming it to not only to serve as a perfect drop-in replacement for Windows 7 but to be one of the most beautiful Linux desktops you’ve seen in a long while. That’s what Feren OS has managed —  and has done so with aplomb. Feren OS first arrived … Read More

Chef, a leading DevOps company, announced at ChefConf 2017 that it was adding new capabilities to it flagship Continous Automation/DevOps program, Chef Automate. This enables enterprises to transition from server- and virtual machine- (VM) based IT systems to cloud-native and container-first environments with consistent automation and DevOps practices. Chef started as an open-source cloud configuration management and deployment application. It’s … Read More

I work with businesses that are just getting started or just hitting a period of growth every day and one common frustration among passionate owners is servers: what they are, when they are needed, and how to go about getting one. It doesn’t need to be overwhelming to know when your small business is ready for a server. If you … Read More

It’s not even been a year since Frank Karlitschek, co-founder and former CTO of ownCloud, forked ownCloud into Nextcloud. Since then, this do-it-yourself, open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud has become increasingly popular. Now, its latest version, Nextcloud 12, the program is adding more Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) features. Perhaps the most important of these is Spreed, an end-to-end encrypted audio/video chat system. With … Read More

Google is not only one of the biggest contributors to the open source community but also has a strong track record of delivering open source tools and platforms that give birth to robust technology ecosystems. Just witness the momentum that Android and Kubernetes now have. Recently, Google launched a new home for its open source projects, processes, and initiatives. The … Read More

AMD has just announced its next generation CPUs for the datacenter called “EPYC” set to launch later this quarter. EPYC processors are based on AMD’s Naples CPU silicon featuring up to 32 cores, 64 threads, massive amounts of cache and I/O bandwidth. AMD “EPYC” CPUs Designed for the Datacenter EPYC is AMD’s reborn Opteron, a product designed to finally challengIne tel … Read More

Ubuntu Linux comes in a few officially recognized flavors, as well as several derivative distributions. The recognized flavors are: Kubuntu – Ubuntu with the KDE desktop Lubuntu – Ubuntu with the LXDE desktop Mythbuntu – Ubuntu MythTV Ubuntu Budgie – Ubuntu with the Budgie desktop Up until recently, the official Ubuntu Linux included the in-house Unity desktop and a sixth … Read More

Infamous government hacker Edward Snowden believes open source is a fundamentally better way to use technology compared to proprietary technology that he believes disempowers users. Snowden was interviewed at the open source cloud computing project OpenStack Summit in Boston via video from a non-descript location and spoke about his personal use of open source technology. In 2013 Snowden, then a … Read More