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For over 10 years now, I run two self-built NAS (Network Storage) devices which serve media (currently via Jellyfin) and run daily backups of all my PCs and servers. In this article, I describe my goals, which hardware I picked for my new build (and why) and how I set it up.

In this post we are trying to answer some of the typical questions that help understanding Immutable OSes principles and we will dive a bit in what solutions are out there, and what are the challenges in the field

Microsoft isn’t only a Windows company. It now shepherds several Linux distributions alongside its own operating systems. It’s important to remember that these aren’t general-purpose Linuxes like Ubuntu or Red Hat. Instead, they’re targeted at specific use cases: SoNIC for cloud-scale network hardware, SphereOS for secured industrial Internet of Things hardware, and CBL-Mariner as a

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Microsoft bolsters Azure hybrid container platform capabilities with Kinvolk buy Kinvolk builds and maintains open source projects that span all layers of the cloud native stack. Credit: Dreamstime Microsoft has acquired German Flatcar Container Linux creator Kinvolk with the intention of bringing the expertise of the compa...

Copy Microsoft has acquired Kinvolk, a German open source company whose best known project is Flatcar Container Linux, a distribution designed for container workloads. Kinvolk was founded in 2015 in Berlin and its first project was building a container runtime, called rkt, for Container Linux (formerly CoreOS), a lightweight Linux distribution. CoreOS Inc, the company behind Container Linux, was acquired by Red Hat in early 2018. Anxious for the future of Container Linux, Kinvolk founder and CE...