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Softpedia | November 22, 2016
Fedora 25 Officially Released as the First Major OS to Offer Wayland by Default
Today, November 22, 2016, Fedora Project officially announced the release of the Fedora 25 Linux-based operating system, which is a major milestone featuring the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software.
Six months in development and delayed twice, Fedora 25 Linux is now available for...
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Shutterstock Tech | November 22, 2016
5 Ways to Hone your Production Incident Postmortems
I’ve messed up many times, as has everyone else on my team. There have been outages, oversaturated content, and frustrated users. We’ve put out a lot of fires. And we’ve done a lot of postmortems afterward.
“What’s a postmortem?”
I’m delighted you asked! Postmortems, also referred to less deathly...
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OpenSource.com | November 22, 2016
25 Years of Linux in 5 Minutes
Jeremy Garcia of LinuxQuestions.org and Bad Voltage (a podcast) delivers 25 years of Linux in five minutes: starting with Linux's first steps as "just a hobby" for creator Linus Torvalds, to its staggering popularity today with 135,000 developers from more than 1,300 companies and 22 million lines...
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Container Journal | November 22, 2016
Testing LXD, Canonical’s Container Hypervisor for Linux
Canonical is betting that LXD, which it calls the “pure-container hypervisor,” can beat VMware, KVM and other traditional hypervisors. To see for myself, I recently gave it a whirl. Here’s what I found.
By “pure-container hypervisor,” Canonical means it is a hypervisor that works by creating...
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The New Stack | November 22, 2016
OPNFV Demonstrates How to Cut the Cord from Proprietary Hardware Designs
There are few things more frustrating than a dropped call. At the keynote during OpenStack Barcelona 2016 conference, the folks behind the Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization Project (OPNFV) demonstrated, in a most dramatic fashion, the resilience of Network Functions Virtualization...
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LinuxJournal | November 22, 2016
Radio Free Linux
Do a web search for "Linux radio station", and the pickings are slim indeed, with most sites promoting instead ham radio software or streaming audio players, and a handful devoted to setting up a streaming web radio station—including one such optimistic article in Linux Journal some 15 years ago (...
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Carla Schroder | November 21, 2016 josh-aas-lets-encrypt.png
Josh Aas of Let's Encrypt explains how the Achilles heel of managing web encryption is not encryption itself, but authentication, which requires trusted third parties, and secure mechanisms for managing the trust chain.
The Urgency of Protecting Your Online Data With Let's Encrypt
We understand that online security is a necessity, so why is only 48.5% of online traffic encrypted? Josh Aas, co-founder of Let's Encrypt, gives us a simple answer: it's too difficult. So what do we do about it? Aas has answers for that as well in his LinuxCon North America presentation.
Aas...
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OpenSource.com | November 21, 2016
4 Ways to Open Up your Project's Infrastructure
Open source isn't just about opening up your code—it's also about building a supporting infrastructure that invites people to contribute. In order to create a vibrant, growing, and exciting project, the community needs to be able to participate in the governance, the documentation, the code, and...
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More Than Seven | November 21, 2016
The End of the General Purpose Operating System
As interesting chat on Twitter today reminded me that not everyone is probably aware that we're seeing a concerted attempt to dislodge the general purpose operating system from our servers.
I gave a talk about some of this nearly two years ago and I though a blog post looking at what I got right,...
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CIO .com | November 21, 2016
Best Open Source Management Tools
Open source software provides an attractive alternative to more costly commercial products, but can open source products deliver enterprise-grade results? To answer this question we tested four open source products: OpenNMS, Pandora FMS, NetXMS and Zabbix. All four products were surprisingly good....
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