Linux can be used for everything, including gaming. When it comes to Linux gaming and distros, you have many options to choose from. We hand-picked and tested all distros and only included the best ones. All with a detailed overview, minimum requirements, and screenshots.
Gaming in Linux has evolved a lot in the past few years. Now, you have dozens of distros pre-optimized for gaming and gamers. We tested all of them and hand-picked the best. There are a few other articles and lists of this type out there, but they don’t really go into detail and they are pretty outdated. This is an up-to-date list with any info you’d need.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has evolved significantly since the concept began to be considered in the 1990s, and Martin Casado, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz, used his keynote at the Open Networking Summit to talk about how he’s seen SDN change over the past 10 years.
As one of the co-founders of Nicira in 2007, Casado was on the leading edge of some of this SDN evolution. At Nicira, they were focused on addressing two main issues in networking. First, if you look at the industry, specific, even customer level functionality, is tied down to the hardware, and second, operations are tied down to a box. As computer scientists, they assumed that these problems could be solved by creating high-level abstractions and using a modern development environment to reduce the complexity of implementing network systems; however, they quickly learned that networking is not computing. Networking, Casado says, is less about computation and more about distributed state management. This led Nicira down the path of creating a distributed SDN operating system based on the idea that a general platform would simplify the distribution model for application developers. They came to realize that it wasn’t quite this easy.
First, networking isn’t a single problem; different parts of the network have different problems. Second, it can be hard to reduce complexity in the platform when applications need to be able to manage this complexity in order to scale. The biggest change happening in the industry around this time in late 2008 and early 2009 was the idea of using a vSwitch as an access layer to the network for implementation of network functionality, and this proved to be a successful idea.
They also had the idea of creating a domain specific language that would help reduce some of the complexity; however, the downside was that they were never quite clear that they were able to get full coverage of the existing model, and by changing the abstractions, they were creating a massive learning curve and breaking existing tool chains. The turning point was when they decided that the abstractions themselves could be networks with logical networks sitting on top of a network virtualization layer / hypervisor that acts as the interface to the physical network.
All of this work led Casado to four key lessons:
Put product before platform.
Virtualize before changing abstractions.
Software over hardware.
Sales / Go to market are as important as technology
Watch the video of Casado’s entire talk to learn more about what he’s learned about the evolution of SDN over the past 10 years.
Interested in open source SDN? The “Software Defined Networking Fundamentals” training course from The Linux Foundation provides system and network administrators and engineers with the skills to maintain an SDN deployment in a virtual networking environment. Download the sample chapter today!
With a sprawling workforce, a wide range of devices running on multiple platforms, and a growing reliance on cloud infrastructure and applications, the idea of the corporate network as the castle and security defenses as walls and moats protecting the perimeter doesn’t really work anymore. Which is why, over the past year, Google has been talking about BeyondCorp, the zero-trust perimeter-less security framework it uses to secure access for its 61,000 employees and their devices.
The core premise of BeyondCorp is that traffic originating from within the enterprise’s network is not automatically more trustworthy than traffic that originated externally.
In this video from Switzerland HPC Conference, Stig Telfer from StackHPC presents: OpenStack for Research Computing. OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
“This talk will present the motivating factors for considering OpenStack for the management of research computing infrastructure. Stig will give an overview of the differences in design criteria between cloud, HPC and data analytics, and how these differences can be mitigated through architectural and configuration choices of an OpenStack private cloud…”
The large and complex software projects use some sort of coding standards and guidelines. These guidelines establish the ground rules that are to be followed while writing software.
a) How the code should be structured?
b) Which language feature should or should not be used?
In order to be effective, the set of rules has to be small and must be specific enough that it can be easily understood and remembered.
The world’s top programmers working for NASA follow a set of guidelines for developing safety critical code. In fact, many organizations, including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) focus on code written in C programming language.
GStreamer is great for all kinds of multimedia applications, but did you know it could also be used to create studio grade professional audio applications?
Written by Olivier Crete, Multimedia Lead at Collabora.
GStreamer is great for all kinds of multimedia applications, but did you know it could also be used to create studio grade professional audio applications? For example, with GStreamer you can easily receive a AES67 stream, the standard which allows inter-operability between different IP based audio networking systems and transfers of live audio between profesionnal grade systems.
Figure 1. AES67 at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 22-27.
Receiving an AES67 stream requires two main components, the first being the reception of the media itself. AES67 is simple because it’s just a stream of RTP packets containing uncompressed PCM data. In other words, this means it can be received with a simple pipeline, such as “udpsrc ! rtpjitterbuffer latency=5 ! rtpL24depay ! …”. There isn’t much more needed, as this pipeline will receive the stream and introduce 5ms of latency, which, as long as the network is uncongested, should already sound great.
The second component is the clock synchronization, one of the important things in Pro Audio. The goal of this component is for the sender and the receiver of the audio to use the same clock so that there aren’t any glitches introduced by a clock running to fast or too slow. The standard used for this is called the Precise Time Protocol version 2 (PTP), defined by the IEEE 1588-2008 standard. While there are a number of free implementations that can be used as master or slave PTP clocks, GStreamer provides the GstPTPClock class that can act as a slave that can synchronize itself from a PTP clock master on the network.
In any technology adoption decision organisations are faced with a balancing act between openness and convenience. Open standards and open source, while in theory driving commoditization and lower cost, also create associated management overheads. Choice comes at a cost. Managing heterogeneous networks is generally more complicated, and therefore resource intensive, than managing homogenous ones, which explains why in every tech wave the best packager wins and wins big – they make decisions on behalf of the user which serve to increase convenience and manageability at the individual or organisational level.
One of the key reasons that Web Scale companies can do what they do, managing huge networks at scale, is aggressive control of hardware, software, networks and system images …
There is a new internet of things (IoT) project launching at the Linux Foundation today—EdgeX Foundry. Dell is contributing its Fuse IoT code base as the initial code for EdgeX Foundry, providing an open framework for IoT interoperability.
“We lack a common framework for building edge IoT solutions—above individual devices and sensors but below the connection to the cloud,” Philip DesAutels, senior director of IoT at the Linux Foundation, told eWEEK. “That means every development that gets done today is bespoke, and that means it is fragile, costly and immobile.”
DesAutels said that with its common framework, EdgeX aims to help solve some of the current challenges of IoT deployment. EdgeX provides with developers a plug-and-play infrastructure to create edge solutions.
Developers, architects, sysadmins, DevOps experts, business leaders, and other professionals will gather in China June 19-20 to discuss the latest open source technology and trends at LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2017 (LC3).
This event — held for the first time in Beijing, China — features three conferences in one, with more than 100 conference sessions focusing on topics such as:
Kubernetes
Cloud Native & Containers
Linux
Blockchain
Networking & Orchestration
IoT & Embedded Linux
Professional Open Source
In a special keynote presentation, Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux and Git, will chat with Dirk Hohndel, VP, Chief Open Source Officer, VMware.
Other keynote speakers include:
Madam Yang Zhiqiang, Deputy General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute
Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation
Dave Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect, Cisco Systems
Dr. Sanqi Li, CTO of Product & Solutions, Huawei
With more than half of the speakers coming from outside of China, there is no better place to learn from leading open source experts from China and around the world.
Session highlights include:
Adoption and Localization of Kubernetes in China – Jiayao (Julia) Han, Caicloud
There is NO Open Source Business Model – Stephen Walli, Docker Inc.
Releasing a Linux Distribution In the Age of DevOps – Brian Stinson, The CentOS Project
The Business Reality of Building Open Source: What We Learned from OVS and OVN – Justin Pettit, VMware & Ben Pfaff, Open vSwitch Project
Challenge and Practice of SDN in Large Scale Data Centers – Jiang, Alibaba Cloud
Hardening Your IoT Endpoints: A Preventive Toolkit – Rabimba Karanjai, Almaden Research Center
At LC3, attendees can expect to learn about the newest and most interesting open source technologies as well as how to collaborate and lead in the open source community.
On Friday, April 28, The Linux Foundation will continue its new series of Twitter chats with leaders at the organization. This monthly activity, entitled #AskLF, gives the open source community a chance to ask upper management at questions about The Linux Foundation’s strategies and offerings.
Clyde Seepersad
#AskLF aims to increase access to the bright minds and community organizers within The Linux Foundation. While there are many opportunities to interact with staff at Linux Foundation global events, which bring together over 25,000 open source influencers, a live Twitter Q&A will give participants a direct line of communication to the designated hosts.
The second host (following Arpit Joshipura’s chat last month) will be Clyde Seepersad, the General Manager of Training and Certification since 2013. His #AskLF session will take place in the midst of many new training initiatives at the organization, including a new Inclusive Speaker Orientation and a Kubernetes Fundamentals course. @linuxfoundation followers are encouraged to ask Seepersad questions related to Linux Foundation courses, certifications, job prospects in the open source industry, and recent training developments.
Sample questions might include:
I’m new to open source but I want to work in the industry. How can a Linux Foundation Certification help me?
What are The Linux Foundation Training team’s support offerings like?
How will a Linux Foundation certification give me an advantage over other candidates with competitors’ certifications?
Here’s how you can participate in the first #AskLF:
Follow @linuxfoundation on Twitter:Hosts will take over The Linux Foundation’s account during the session.
Save the date: April 28, 2017 at 10 a.m. PT.
Use the hashtag #AskLF:To ask Clyde your questions while he hosts. Click here to spread the news of #AskLF with your Twitter community.
Be a n00b!:If you’ve been considering beginning a open source training journey, don’t be afraid to ask Clyde basic questions about The Linux Foundation’s methods, recommendations, or subjects covered. No inquiry is too basic!
More dates and details for future #AskLF sessions to come! We’ll see you on Twitter,April 28th at 10 a.m. PT.
More information on Linux Foundation Training can be found in the training blog via Linux.com:
*note: unlike Reddit-style AMAs, #AskLF is not focused around general topics that might pertain to the host’s personal life. To participate, please focus your questions around open source networking and Clyde Seepersad’s career.
