Setup ATA over Ethernet (AoE) on Debian 8 (Initiator and Target)

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March 22, 2016

This tutorial shows you how to setup an AoE client (initiator) and server (target) on Debian 8 /Jessie). The term AoE stands for “ATA over Ethernet” which is a storage area network (SAN) protocol that allows AoE clients to use storage devices on the (remote) AoE server over a normal ethernet network. “Remote” in this case means “inside the same LAN” because AoE is not routable outside a LAN (this is a major difference compared to iSCSI). To the AoE client (initiator), the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

Rust’s Redox OS Could Show Linux a Few New Tricks

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InfoWorld

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March 22, 2016

Mozilla’s Rust language was conceived by its designers as an option to write many kinds of software quickly and safely — including full operating systems. Over the last several months a team of developers has been busy doing exactly that: using Rust to create Redox, a full-blown Unix-like operating system designed as a radical rethinking of the Linux approach.

Clean slate

Redox uses Rust for its kernel-level code to provide more memory safety considerations than C allows by default. But the project doesn’t simply rewrite Linux in a new language. Redox discards as much from Linux’s version of the Unix tradition as it keeps. As explained in the project’s wiki and design documents, Redox uses a minimal set of syscalls — a deliberately smaller subset than what Linux supports so as to avoid legacy bloat.

BBC Micro Bit: Can One Million of These Tiny Computers Create the Next Generation of Coders?

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ZDNet

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March 22, 2016

microbit1 The BBC has started delivering the first of its Micro Bit programming boards to students, a project which it hopes will help create the next generation of coders and tech entrepreneurs. Up to one million of the devices will be delivered free to 11- to 13-year-olds in the UK, who can then use the board as the basis for building devices and programming projects.

Following the nationwide rollout, the hardware and “much of” the software will be open-sourced, says the BBC. Micro Bits will be available to buy from a range of retailers. Money generated from these commercial sales will be used to encourage as many people as possible to join the coding revolution.

ONS and the Challenge of Open Networking

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Enterprise Networking Planet

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March 22, 2016

At the Open Networking Summit (ONS) this week, vendors big and small are talking about the success and direction of the open networking movement, including Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and whitebox hardware. There’s much reason for optimism, but there are a number of key challenges, too.

Guru Parulkar, Chair of ONS and the Executive Director at the Open Networking Research Center (ONRC), said in his opening keynote that open networking in 2016 has overcome many technological and business barriers. “We can safely say that a new era of networking is here,” Parulkar said.

The new era of networking is defined by several key trends: disaggregation, a move to software virtualization, and open source. Parulkar noted that from a hardware perspective, the increasing availability of high-performance, programmable network silicon is helping enable the new era of networking.

Read more at Enterprise Networking Planet

Can We Talk About Ageism?

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OpenSource.com

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March 22, 2016

osdc general openfield The free and open source community has been having a lot of conversations about diversity, especially gender diversity, over the last few years. Although there is still plenty to do, we’ve made some real strides. After all, the first step is admitting there is a problem.

Another type of diversity that has gotten much less attention, but that is integral to building sustainable communities is age diversity. If we want free and open source software to truly take over the world, then we want to welcome contributors of all ages. A few months ago, I interviewed some women approaching or over fifty about their experiences in open source, and in this article, I’ll share their perspectives.

Apple Releases Swift 2.2 Programming Language with Ubuntu Linux Support

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Softpedia

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March 22, 2016

After announcing the availability of the iOS 9.3, Mac OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan, watchOS 2.2, and tvOS 9.2 operating systems, as well as the Xcode 7.3 IDE, Apple now released version 2.2 of its Swift programming language for OS X and Linux.

We can’t say that this comes as news to us, Linux users, as Swift 2.2 has been in development for the past few months. In the first days of December 2015, Appleannounced that it makes its innovative programming language open source. The development is being tracked on GitHub, where you can get the source code. And today, March 21, 2016, the Linux community can finally download the production version of Swift 2.2, …

Hard Drives Are Heading the Way of Floppies, But When?

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The Linux Foundation

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March 22, 2016

Solid-state drives are making inroads as the default mass storage option in PCs. HP and Toshiba execs weigh in on when SSDs will finally overtake HDDs.

A decade ago, 3.5-inch floppy disk drives stopped appearing as standard features in personal computers. Now, with the rise of solid-state drives, disposable memory cards, cloud storage, and ubiquitous Wi-Fi, the concept of traditional hard disk drives as standard options will probably be the next to end.

There’s no doubt that it will happen, according to officials at Hewlett-Packard, which had the second-highest worldwide PC market share in 2015, and Toshiba, which was the third-ranking hard disk manufacturer. The question is, when?

Google’s BinDiff Binary Code Analysis Tool Is Now Free

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eWeek

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March 22, 2016

290 MissDataOpp The tool allows security researchers to quickly disassemble and inspect code in related binary files, Google officials said.

Google has made available for free a tool for quickly spotting similarities and differences in related binary files or software code.The BinDiff tool gives security researchers a way to identify and isolate fixes for vulnerabilities in vendor-supplied patches. It also gives them a way to disassemble and compare malicious software files for differences and similarities in code.

ContainerX Will Offer a Container Management Platform for the Enterprise

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The Linux Foundation

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March 22, 2016

Startup ContainerX is fervently working toward to make its enterprise-focused container management platform generally available by early June. The San Jose-based company came out of stealth at DockerCon Barcelona in November and has since been releasing a beta a month.

The company aims to differentiate itself in the ever-more-crowded container-management segment with two pieces of IP: Elastic Clusters and Container Pools, which combined, can allocate infrastructure to container clusters based on the pre-defined priority level and the current utilization pattern of resources.

â€œWe would be humbled if people thought of us as vSphere for containers,â€ said company CEO Kiran Kamity. He says thatâ€™s what vSphere and Hyper-V have been doing in the world of virtual machines, but adds, â€œa platform like that is missing from the world of containers.â€

GoDaddy Launches OpenStack-Powered Cloud Services

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eWeek

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March 22, 2016

GoDaddy announced a new OpenStack-powered public cloud service. The new service benefits from the Bitnami partnership for applications.

GoDaddy, one of the largest domain registrars and shared hosting providers, is jumping into the cloud market with a new OpenStack-powered public cloud service.The move toward a public OpenStack cloud service has been several years in the making at GoDaddy. In 2014, GoDaddy expanded its services offering to include a new Pro-level service tier, providing managed hosting services for customers. At the time, GoDaddy was positioning the Pro service as a cloud alternative for its users, even while the company was beginning to use OpenStack for its own developers and operations.