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Libby Clark | The Linux Foundation | August 10, 2016 bottles-631731_1920.jpg
Corey Quinn, Director of DevOps at FutureAdvisor, shares his perspective on the downside of containers.
Be Cautious With Containers Says FutureAdvisor’s DevOps Director
Docker and microservices-based architectures have expanded our horizons with respect to how the industry builds and supports applications at scale, says Corey Quinn, Director of DevOps at FutureAdvisor and an early developer behind SaltStack. Nonetheless, Quinn, in his LinuxCon and ContainerCon...
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Light Reading | August 10, 2016
Open Source Explodes Enterprise Procurement
Open source gives startups an opportunity to shoulder big vendors aside by leveraging the cloud to disrupt traditional relationships, says Martin Casado, a pioneering software-defined networking entrepreneur turned venture capitalist.
"It turns out one of the most difficult things for a startup to...
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Enterprise Networking Planet | August 10, 2016
Midokura Embraces Container Networking
Software Defined Networking (SDN) firm Midokura today is announcing a new update to its enterprise platform that provides multi-cloud connectivity as well as some container networking support as well.Midokura CTO, Pino de Candia explained that the new Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) 6.2 update is...
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OMG! Ubuntu | August 10, 2016
This Guy Tested 100 DRM-Free Humble Games on Linux So You Don’t Have To
One of the many things I love about the Linux community is how ridiculously helpful it can be.
Like a lot of us, Børge A. Roum has bought a lot of Humble Bundles over the years. And, also like a lot of us, says he was lured in by the inclusion of Linux DRM-free games. But have you ever hit a...
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Phoronix | August 10, 2016
KDE Kirigami UI Framework Makes First Debut
The previously talked about KDE Kirigami UI framework has now experienced its first public release. The Kirigami UI framework is designed for mobile and convergent applications written in Qt. Today's announcement explains, "Kirigami is not just a set of components, it is also a philosophy that...
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OpenSource.com | August 10, 2016
A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers and Image Signing
Fundamentally, all major software, even open source, was designed before image-based containers. This means that putting software inside of containers is fundamentally a platform migration. This also means that some programs are easy to migrate into containers, while others are more difficult.
I...
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The New Stack | August 10, 2016
SUSE Offers RHEL Support for Mirantis OpenStack, While Red Hat Demurs
Mirantis and SUSE are joining forces to offer seamless support for running the Mirantis OpenStack distribution not only on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) but, surprisingly, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS as well.
Many of our larger customers run two or three different Linux flavors...
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James Heggs | August 10, 2016
Zero to Continuous Delivery with Google Cloud Platform
I recently gave a talk at a local Docker meetup based in Manchester, UK. This blog accompanies that talk. Over the course of this article I hope to give the reader instructions for creating a continuous delivery pipeline that utilises Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and specifically Google Container...
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OpenSource.com | August 10, 2016
Advice for Building a Career in Open Source
Back in 1998 when I discovered Linux and open source, I never would have believed that I would make a career out of this. Back in those days I didn't have a clue about what I wanted to do, but I knew I wanted it to involve technology in some way.
Since those dim distant days filled with teenage...
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Paula Rooney | August 9, 2016 block-chain.jpg
Most of the industry’s players are optimistic about the prospects for public and private blockchains, but it’s clear that the technology will take a little time to evolve.
The Next Generation of Open Source Blockchains
Never before has any open source project generated as much attention on the international stage as Bitcoin.
But Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency platform void of allegiance to any nation or financial institution, is just the first of an expanding and more sophisticated class of open source blockchains...
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