Servers: FSF Versus 'Clown', Clown-Native Apps, Canonical on OpenStack, and SUSE Working With Microsoft

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 15, 2023

• FSF Blogs: FTC's solicitation for public comments: Make your voice heard

• Replace, Don’t Repair, for Higher Quality Cloud-Native Apps

  In a recent article, I discussed an odd strategy for improving the quality of an application: Not testing it. The strategy is based on the philosophy that bugs and mistakes should not be feared in the software development process. As odd as it may sound, skipping QA can improve the

• Canonical’s Sunbeam makes OpenStack more viable for small-scale deployments

  OpenStack, the open-source infrastructure-as-a-service project that helps enterprises manage their on-premise data centers, was never known to be easy to install and operate. That meant that very few enterprises set up their own OpenStack deployments, working with third-party vendors and consultants instead, and that small-scale deployments weren’t really viable. With Sunbeam, Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution) now promises to make it significantly easier to install OpenStack in small-scale environments, thanks to its Kubernetes-native architecture.

• Enabling Multi-Tenancy at Scale with Clastix Kamaji and Rancher Prime by SUSE

  In today’s competitive business landscape, companies prioritize efficiency, streamlined operations, cost savings, and security. These are different goals but with a common strategic solution: multi-tenancy.

• SUSE and Microsoft joint webinar 6/28/23: Migrating HPC Workloads to Azure using SUSE Linux Enterprise HPC [Ed: SUSE is shilling Microsoft's proprietary surveillance again; not much has improved since the Novell/Microsoft collusion]