Latest News About GNU/Linux in Servers and Networks
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-03 11:46:23 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-03 12:06:53 UTC
Servers
Reuven M. Lerner starts us out this month, this time with information on how to leverage geolocation information in your Web application. Whether you want to give your Web visitors a local weather forecast or just want to present them with location-appropriate options from your Web applications, geolocation is a powerful tool. Since the Internet is global, it's important to know where users are located. Reuven shows how to integrate geolocation awareness into your Web applications. Dave Taylor follows with the next in his series on Zombie Dice. It may feel like you're just making a cool game, but it's really just a ruse to help you learn something. (Well, it's a cool game too, but you really are learning!)
At a cloud event today, Google announced it was cutting its cloud-services prices by huge margins — up to 85 percent in some cases. But that’s not all the good news.
Google also announced general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux SUSE on the Google Cloud Platform
Softaculous Ltd., the developer of AMPPS Installer that simplifies Application deployment on various Desktop and Servers, today announced the launch of AMPPS 2.3 for Linux distros. Ampps Linux will work with most of the desktop / GUI distros of linux like Fedora, CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu, etc.
At the Women in Tech Networking event at South by Southwest Interactive last week, Rackspace Hosting launched its new training program, Linux for Ladies, aimed at helping women get top jobs in the IT industry.
Cumulus Linux
Midokura, a global company focused on network virtualization, today announced its partnership with Cumulus Networks, the company bringing the power of Linux to networking. The companies plan to offer a joint technology solution that will enable customers to manage workloads on virtual and non-virtualized infrastructure with a technology preview by May 2014 and a GA offering by Q3 2014. This partnership further extends the new networking open ecosystem where businesses can have the flexibility to choose between various industry standard networking hardware, network operating systems and applications.
Cumulus Networks has announced that IXLeeds has chosen the Cumulus Linux operating system for the company’s upgraded Internet Exchange Point. IXLeeds is a not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point (IXP) based in Leeds, UK. A bid process that included Extreme Networks and Juniper Networks preceded the deployment of Cumulus.
SDN
That said, Jessup stressed that there is still a core networking track that is still at the foundation of Interop. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is once again a popular track for discussion as networking professional seek to learn how to benefit from the new networking paradigm.
The first wave of SDNs broke data centers free from single-vendor "blobs," concede the architects of MidoNet, but they left a new problem in their wake.
In a Cumulus Networks-sponsored webcast SDN panel on March 21, Najam Ahmad, Facebook's director of technical operations, explained why the social networking website has embraced the open SDN model.
Ahmad said that when it comes to the reasons SDN makes sense for Facebook, it boils down to two key things: scale and agility. He noted that there is a lot of traffic going between machines today that runs over network infrastructure. In order to scale the network to meet the needs for increasing machine-to-machine traffic, the traditional hierarchy-based network structure isn't a good fit.
The Linux Foundation's OpenDaylight Project conducted a third-party survey that found 95 percent of networking pros want open-source software-defined networking technologies.
Forgetting to Change Default Password or Apply Patches
Security boffins at ESET, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing as well as other agencies, have found a cybercriminal campaign that has taken control of over 25,000 Unix servers worldwide.
Dubbed "Operation Windigo" it has resulted in infected servers sending out millions of spam emails which are designed to hijack servers, infect the computers that visit them, and steal information.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The Latest Wave of Microsoft Crime, Bribes, and Fraud
- Microsoft is still an evil, highly corrupt company
- Links 19/04/2024: Running a V Rising Dedicated Server on GNU/Linux and More Post-"AI" Hype Eulogies
- Links for the day
- [Video] Novell and Microsoft 45 Years Later
- what happened in 2006 when Novell's Ron Hovsepian (who had come from IBM) sealed the company's sad fate by taking the advice of Microsoft moles
- EPO “Technical” Meetings Are Not Technical Anymore, It's Just Corrupt Officials Destroying the Patent Office, Piecewise (While Breaking the Law to Increase Profits)
- Another pillar of the EPO is being knocked down
- Sven Luther, Lucy Wayland & Debian's toxic culture
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
-
- Matthew Garrett, Cambridge & Debian: female colleague was afraid
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- David Graeber, village wives & Debian Outreachy internships
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Neil McGovern & Ruby Central part ways
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 20/04/2024: Chinese Diplomacy and 'Dangerous New Course on BGP Security'
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 19, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, April 19, 2024
- Gemini Links 19/04/2024: Kolibri OS and OpenBSD
- Links for the day
- [Meme] EPO “Technical” Meetings
- an institution full of despots who commit or enable illegalities
- Red Hat Communicates the World Via Microsoft Proprietary Spyware
- Red Hat believes in choice: Microsoft... or Microsoft.
- Chris Rutter, ARM Ltd IPO, Winchester College & Debian
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Video] Microsoft Got Its Systems Cracked (Breached) Again, This Time by Russia, and It Uses Its Moles in the Press and So-called 'Linux' Foundation to Change the Subject
- If they control the narrative (or buy the narrative), they can do anything
- Links 19/04/2024: Israel Fires Back at Iran and Many Layoffs in the US
- Links for the day
- Russell Coker & Debian: September 11 Islamist sympathy
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Sven Luther, Thomas Bushnell & Debian's September 11 discussion
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- G.A.I./Hey Hi (AI) Bubble Bursting With More Mass Layoffs
- it's happening already
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 18, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Coroner's Report: Lucy Wayland & Debian Abuse Culture
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 18/04/2024: Misuse of COVID Stimulus Money, Governments Buying Your Data
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/04/2024: GemText Pain and Web 1.0
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/04/2024: Google Layoffs Again, ByteDance Scandals Return
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/04/2024: Trying OpenBSD and War on Links Continues
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day