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Designate: DNS as a Service in OpenStack
The management of DNS entries works fundamentally differently for clouds than for classic setups; OpenStack Designate is a meaningful and well-functioning DNS as a Service implementation.
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The Linux Foundation and Microsoft Offer IoT Platforms
Both Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have announced separate IoT-related projects.
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Microsoft Brings Linux Containers to Windows Server
Hyper-V isolation technology allows thousands of Linux containers to run on Windows Server.
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Interview: openSUSE's Richard Brown
Over the course of three days of SUSECON, we talked to Richard Brown, the friendly chairperson of the openSUSE Board.
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Azure Infrastructure
Once you start putting services in Azure cloud, you might want to add an Active Directory domain controller.
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Segmenting Networks with VLANs
Network virtualization takes very different approaches at the software and hardware levels to divide or group network resources into logical units independent of the physical layer. It is typically a matter of implementing secure strategies. We show the technical underpinnings of VLANs.
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Serious Flaw in Microsoft Word is Being Used to Install Malware
Microsoft supposedly knew about the flaw since January.
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Unity Enters its Twilight
With less than a six percent market share in the 2016 LinuxQuestions survey, Unity remains among the least popular of Linux desktops. Under these circumstances, the only surprising aspect of Shuttleworth’s announcement that Ubuntu was dropping Unity in favor of Gnome is that the decision took so long.
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