Friday, January 11, 2019

Developer: Because Linux Users Were 0.1% Of Sales, But Reported 20% Of Crashes, 'Would Totally Skip Linux' - TheGamer

Developer: Because Linux Users Were 0.1% Of Sales, But Reported 20% Of Crashes, 'Would Totally Skip Linux'  TheGamer

A game developer that worked on Planetary Annihilation said he'd skip Linux support next time as being too much hassle for too few sales.

The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit - The Register

The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit  The Register

Security biz Qualys has revealed three vulnerabilities in a component of systemd , a system and *service* manager used in most major Linux distributions.

The Expected Linux Driver State For The Radeon VII - Phoronix

The Expected Linux Driver State For The Radeon VII  Phoronix

With yesterday's surprise announcement of the Radeon VII "Radeon 7" as a new $699 7nm second-generation Vega consumer graphics card launching in early ...

Homebrew 1.9.0 released with periodic brew cleanup, beta support for Linux, Windows and much more! - Packt Hub

Homebrew 1.9.0 released with periodic brew cleanup, beta support for Linux, Windows and much more!  Packt Hub

Yesterday, Mike McQuaid, Homebrew's lead maintainer announced the release of Homebrew 1.9.0. The release has major updates like Linux support, (optional) ...

Non-Child Process Exit Notification Support - Linux Journal

Non-Child Process Exit Notification Support  Linux Journal

Daniel Colascione submitted some code to support processes knowing when others have terminated. Normally a process can tell when its own child processes ...

FreeBSD 12.0 vs. DragonFlyBSD 5.4 vs. TrueOS 18.12 vs. Linux On A Tyan EPYC Server - Phoronix

FreeBSD 12.0 vs. DragonFlyBSD 5.4 vs. TrueOS 18.12 vs. Linux On A Tyan EPYC Server  Phoronix

Last month when running FreeBSD 12.0 benchmarks on a 2P EPYC server I wasn't able to run any side-by-side benchmarks with the new DragonFlyBSD 5.4 as ...

Entroware's New Linux Workstation Rocks Ryzen Threadripper And 4x Nvidia RTX GPUs - Forbes

Entroware's New Linux Workstation Rocks Ryzen Threadripper And 4x Nvidia RTX GPUs  Forbes

I recently covered Entroware's launch of the Ares All-in-One Ubuntu PC, but here's something on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Meet the Hades ...

5 Best Free Virtual Machines in 2019 (+3 Free VM Backup Solutions) - G2 Crowd

5 Best Free Virtual Machines in 2019 (+3 Free VM Backup Solutions)  G2 Crowd

Free virtual machine (VM) software is a cost-effective and essential enterprise IT infrastructure. Many VM tools are free or open source. That will allow you and ...

AWS Fargate pricing change raises container management stakes - TechTarget

AWS Fargate pricing change raises container management stakes  TechTarget

A substantial reduction in AWS Fargate pricing may help lure more customers to AWS' container management services and establish a bigger beachhead ...

Desktop Hypervisor Market 2018 Global Key Leaders: Moka5, NComputing, Dell Technologies, Sierraware LLC, Citrix Systems, Microsoft, Red Hat, Oracle Corporation - openPR

Desktop Hypervisor Market 2018 Global Key Leaders: Moka5, NComputing, Dell Technologies, Sierraware LLC, Citrix Systems, Microsoft, Red Hat, Oracle Corporation  openPR

Market Research Future published a research report on “Desktop Hypervisor Market Research Report - Global Forecast to 2023” – Market Analysis, Scope, ...

Use branch office servers to support infrastructure expansion - TechTarget

Use branch office servers to support infrastructure expansion  TechTarget

Branch office servers, especially with microserver designs, are best if you're trying to support an organization's expanding infrastructure needs. Repurposed ...

How to Automate HIPAA Compliance with DevOps

Automate HIPAA Compliance with DevOps

DevOps can help make HIPAA compliance more achievable Automating the provisioning of HIPAA-compliant server infrastructure enables compliant hosting service providers with the ability to provision and deploy infrastructure-as-code with minimal human intervention. Providing the automated process is thoroughly tested, revised and updated, it can offer a healthcare organization huge flexibility when enforcing a HIPAA-compliant server […]

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Amazon Should Spin Off AWS Into A Separate Company - Seeking Alpha

Amazon Should Spin Off AWS Into A Separate Company  Seeking Alpha

AWS is highly profitable but is held back by the core retail business. Spinning-off AWS would shine a magnifying glass on the core retail business, which is mar.

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure - GeekWire

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure  GeekWire

Amazon Web Services customers might find some new disaster-recovery services in their account dashboards later this year now that the company has ...

AWS Takes Aim At MongoDB With New Database Service - CRN

AWS Takes Aim At MongoDB With New Database Service  CRN

Amazon developed the compatible document-oriented database *service* after MongoDB introduced a more-restrictive license to the open source project it leads.

AWS warns against IoT for the sake of just sticking sensors on everything - ZDNet

AWS warns against IoT for the sake of just sticking sensors on everything  ZDNet

AWS VP of Internet of Things shares his thoughts on avoiding the buzz, and the importance of embarking on an IoT journey only once a problem has been ...

AWS Fargate pricing change raises container management stakes - TechTarget

AWS Fargate pricing change raises container management stakes  TechTarget

A substantial reduction in AWS Fargate pricing may help lure more customers to AWS' container management services and establish a bigger beachhead ...

Minim Debuted the Minim Labs Free Router Security Platform, AWS Launched DocumentDB, Firefox CTO Eric Rescorla Awarded Levchin Prize, Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 Now Available and IoT DevCon 2019 Call for Papers - Linux Journal

Minim Debuted the Minim Labs Free Router Security Platform, AWS Launched DocumentDB, Firefox CTO Eric Rescorla Awarded Levchin Prize, Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 Now Available and IoT DevCon 2019 Call for Papers  Linux Journal

News briefs for January 10, 2019. Minim debuted Minim Labs at CES this week. This free version of the Minim router security platform has an open-source ...

TriggerMesh Clears Serverless Bridge Between AWS Lambda, Knative - SDxCentral

TriggerMesh Clears Serverless Bridge Between AWS Lambda, Knative  SDxCentral

TriggerMesh launched an open source project that stitches together Amazon Web Services' Lambda serverless architecture with the Knative.

Amazon Introduces AWS RoboMaker for Building Intelligent Robotic Applications - InfoQ.com

Amazon Introduces AWS RoboMaker for Building Intelligent Robotic Applications  InfoQ.com

At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 conference, Amazon introduced AWS RoboMaker, a *service* that simplifies the development, testing and deployment of ...

AWS wins UK government's Crown Marketplace contract - DatacenterDynamics

AWS wins UK government's Crown Marketplace contract  DatacenterDynamics

Amazon Web Services has been chosen as the provider of a portal for the UK government which will enable government departments and local councils to ...

Built on AWS, Zendesk Sunshine is a new take on enterprise SaaS and CRM - Diginomica

Built on AWS, Zendesk Sunshine is a new take on enterprise SaaS and CRM  Diginomica

The way that Zendesk has built its new Sunshine platform on AWS is a groundbreaking new take on enterprise SaaS that looks to the future of CRM.

AWS VP joins other Amazon execs in Medina, with purchase of $7 million home (Photos) - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

AWS VP joins other Amazon execs in Medina, with purchase of $7 million home (Photos)  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

An Amazon.com Inc. executive who has been awarded hundreds of patents is moving up from a 19-year-old Sammamish estate to a newer one in Medina.

How AWS, Azure and Google approach service mesh technology - TechTarget

How AWS, Azure and Google approach service mesh technology  TechTarget

*Service* mesh technology offers a way for IT teams to manage connections between individual microservices. And while major cloud providers, such as AWS, ...

Fire(cracker) sale at AWS: Up to 50% lopped off container compute engine Fargate - The Register

Fire(cracker) sale at AWS: Up to 50% lopped off container compute engine Fargate  The Register

Amazon has taken an axe to the pricing of its containers-for-dummies *service* Fargate with costs for the on-demand engine dropping by up to 50 per cent.