Microsoft has splashed out again. They have just acquired open-source source code management and sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn. GitHub has a community of 28 million developers and hosts 85…
OpenContrail becomes Tungsten Fabric
The Linux Foundation has recently obtained the OpenContrail source from Juniper. Having fully transitioned OpenContrail into the Linux Foundation, it is now rebranded as Tungsten Fabric. This move may appear…
OpenContrail joins Linux Foundation
Juniper is moving their OpenContrail codebase to the Linux Foundation. OpenContrail is Juniper's open-source version of their Contrail SDN orchestrator. Provided as an open-source offering, OpenContrail doesn't have the support…
All 500 top supercomputers run Linux
The Top500 list regularly polls the organisations that run supercomputers creating a list of largest, fastest, most efficient and so on. The 50th release of the Top500 list was released yesterday.…
Qualcomm ships Centriq 2400 ARM server processor
Qualcomm has announced that its new ARM-based server chip is available for commercial shipment. The Centriq 2400 is an ARMv8 64 bit CPU, with 48 cores running at upto 2.6Ghz.…
TheRegister: Linux to gain longer-term support
El Register reports that the Linux kernel is gaining a longer-term support model. Their article indicates that Greg Kroah-Hartman is planning on a six-year term for the various Linux kernel long-term releases.…
There’s a problem with IPv6 route lookup speed in Linux
The challenge The great thing about IPv6 is its larger IP address space, but this is also its weakness. That larger IP address space needs routing, potentially creating larger routing…
My challenges with upgrading VMware to 6.5u1
So in theory, a new VMware release is normally a doddle to upgrade to using the methods covered in Keeping VMware ESXi Updated: 6.5 Update 1. It's worked for the…