8 ways your company can support and sustain open source

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April 30, 2019

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The success of open source continues to grow; surveys show that the majority of companies use some form of open source, 99% of enterprises see open source as important, and almost half of developers are contributing back.

Preparing Your Enterprise for the Worst With Disaster Recovery, Monitoring

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SDx Central

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April 25, 2019

With the rise of both man-made and natural disasters (including fires and earthquakes), the disaster recovery (DR) market has growing importance in protecting an enterprise and its user community, according to RackWare co-founder and CEO Sash Sunkara.

“It is a really critical requirement [for enterprises] and when people think about DR there are certain things that they should really think about when putting a plan together,” Sunkara said. This includes implementing the correct infrastructure monitoring and disaster recovery toolset so that an enterprise’s network, applications, and end-users don’t experience any downtime.

The state of Linux graphic design tools in 2019

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Linux.com Editorial Staff

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April 25, 2019

Before I begin this test of Linux graphic design tools, I should admit two things up front. First, I am a designer, not a software developer. Second, although I try to incorporate open source methodologies and principles wherever I can, my field pretty much demands that I use Adobe software on a sticker-emblazoned MacBook Pro. (I know, hate me if you must.) For the purposes of this research project, however, I am running Fedora 29 on a repurposed Mac Mini.

K3OS: A Kubernetes OS Distro for Edge Computing

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The New Stack

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April 24, 2019

On the heels of its release of k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution designed for the edge, Rancher Labs has announced an accompanying operating system called k3OS.

The k3OS preview release is available with support for x86 and ARM64. With k3OS, Kubernetes cluster configuration and the underlying OS configuration are defined with the same declarative syntax as other Kubernetes resources, meaning both can be managed together.

Rancher has been working with a number of customers including wind turbine company Goldwind Smart Energy on using Kubernetes in resource-constrained environments.

How to Change User Password in Ubuntu

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Tecmint

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April 24, 2019

In this short quick article, we will show you how to change a user password in Ubuntu Linux using the graphical interface as well as the command line interface. As you are well aware, most operations on Ubuntu are applicable to its derivatives such as Linux Mint, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and many others.

Ubuntu 19.10 Daily Builds Are Now Available to Download

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Softpedia

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April 23, 2019

Canonical just kicked off the development cycle of the next release of their widely-used Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 19.10, allowing testers and early adopters to download daily build ISO images.

3 Things About Cloud and IoT You Need to Consider

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InfoWorld

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April 22, 2019

The internet of things (IoT) and cloud-based providers are bound at the hip. That said, most people don’t understand how, why, or what to expect. I’ve been asked some good questions that drove me to do some research and testing. Perhaps the answers are of interest to you as well.

Linux 5.1 Picking Up Keyboard Mappings For Full-Screen, Toggle Display Keys

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Phoronix

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April 22, 2019

Coming as a late addition to the Linux 5.1 kernel are some long overdue keyboard key mappings for different functionality…

Tutorial: Deploying a Web Application on Google Cloud Run

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The New Stack

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April 22, 2019

Google Cloud Run is a serverless environment to run containers. For the background and context of this latest Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service, refer to my previous article.

In this tutorial, we will deploy a web application based on Node.js and MongoDB to the Cloud Run platform. Since Cloud Run is meant to host and scale stateless web applications, we will use mLab service to persist data. Since both mLab and Cloud Run are serverless, we just need to focus on the code and business logic instead of worrying about the infrastructure.

Move Data to the Cloud with Azure Data Migration

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InfoWorld

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April 16, 2019

Despite more than a decade of cloud migration, there’s still a vast amount of data running on-premises. That’s not surprising since data migrations, even between similar systems, are complex, slow, and add risk to your day-to-day operations. Moving to the cloud adds additional management overhead, raising questions of network connectivity and bandwidth, as well as the variable costs associated with running cloud databases.