Monthly Archives: February 2017
Mirantis containerises OpenContrail within OpenStack ecosystem
Active OpenStack contributor Mirantis has containerised OpenContrail. Containerising and supporting OpenContrail will help the California-based company grow into "one-stop support shop" for all popular...
Microsoft adds PowerShell Core to its own repository
Microsoft has just launched PowerShell Core on its own repository. All the PowerShell Core releases were previously published on GitHub repository, but the new...
Puppet: The Popular Choice for IT Automation
Puppet is used to configure UNIX-like computer systems as well as Windows systems. It uses its own declarative language or a domain specific language....
Linux System Administration: Managing Users and Groups
This is an article that takes the reader back to the basics of Linux. It covers the various aspects of users and groups in...
Samsung’s Tizen gets .Net support
Months after embracing Microsoft's .Net, Samsung has formally added support for the same software framework to its Tizen platform. The new development comes from...
OpenShift: The Fast and Friendly Platform-as-a-Service
OpenShift is a next-generation container based, secure and scalable platform for rapid application development. Let’s first understand the way it works, and then use...
India has become a great supporter of open source
Open source is influencing the IT industry around the globe. Not just the software leaders but also the big hardware players of the industry...
LibreOffice 5.3 brings online productivity
Expanding its presence in the productivity world, the Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 5.3. This new open source office suite version is debuting on...
Cryptkeeper on Debian 9 sets single universal password
Linux cryptographic filesystem EnCFS-based Cryptkeeper has set a single universal password on Debian 9. With this flaw under the hood, you just need to...
GitLab faces outage due to a database glitch
You might have observed that Git repository platform GitLab went offline all of a sudden on Wednesday. This was apparently due to a major...