Android Leftovers

• Galaxy Note 8 or Android Oreo: What excites you more? (The 3:59, Ep. 271)

• How to download Android Oreo right now

• How to: Decompile Android APKs and enable in-development features in some apps

• Here's a list of phones that will get Android Oreo this year

• It's going to be years before Android can copy the iPhone 8

• Lamborghini's luxury Android phone is definitely not worth $2,450

• Android 8.0 Oreo's Default Print Service eliminates the need for printer plugins

Why open source should be the first choice for cloud-native environments

Let's take a trip back in time to the 1990s, when proprietary software reigned, but open source was starting to come into its own. What caused this switch, and more importantly, what can we learn from it today as we shift into cloud-native environments?

Debian and Ubuntu Leftovers

• Notes on upgrading from Jessie to Stretch

  I upgraded my last major machine from Jessie to Stretch last week. That machine was the one running the most services, but I’d made notes while updating various others to ensure it went smoothly. Below are the things I noted along the way, both for my own reference and in case they are of use to anyone else.

• Debian packages as Graph Database

  I have been playing around with Neo4j as graph database, and searching for a big dataset I decided to look at Debian packages (source and binary) from stable, testing, sid, and experimental, and represent all of that in a big graph database.

• Cookie notification component

  We’ve all seen the annoying cookie notification which website owners are legally obliged to include on their sites. We can’t avoid them, so let’s have some fun with them. Previously, for Canonical’s sites, the cookie notification was a shared CSS file and JavaScript file that we injected into the head of each site. This resulted in a cookie policy notification appearing at the bottom of the site.

• Andres Rodriguez: MAAS 2.3.0 alpha 2 Released!

• Week 33 of 2017 in snapcraft

• This Week In Snapcraft

• SnapRoute and Canonical create new switch stack for network operators

• Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 22 Aug 2017

Red Hat: OpenShift on OpenStack, Red Microsoft, and a New 52-Week High

• OpenShift on OpenStack: Delivering Applications Better Together

  Have you ever asked yourself, where should I run OpenShift? The answer is anywhere—it runs great on bare metal, on virtual machines, in a private cloud or in the public cloud. But, there are some reasons why people are moving to private and public clouds related to automation around full stack exposition and consumption of resources. A traditional operating system has always been about exposition and consumption of hardware resources—hardware provides resources, applications consume them, and the operating system has always been the traffic cop. But a traditional operating system has always been confined to a single machine[1]. Well, in the cloud-native world, this now means expanding this concept to include multiple operating system instances. That’s where OpenStack and OpenShift come in. In a cloud-native world, virtual machines, storage volumes and network segments all become dynamically provisioned building blocks. We architect our applications from these building blocks. They are typically paid for by the hour or minute and deprovisioned when they are no longer needed. But you need to think of them as dynamically provisioned capacity for applications. OpenStack is really good at dynamically provisioning capacity (exposition), and OpenShift is really good at dynamically provisioning applications (consumption), but how do we glue them together to provide a dynamic, highly programmable, multi-node operating system?

• Red Hat adds Microsoft's .NET Core 2.0 to its Linux and cloud offerings

• Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) Hits New 52-Week High

• Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) Saw a New 52-Week High

• Between The Numbers: VEREIT, Inc. (VER), Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)

• Red Hat Inc (RHT) and New Residential Investment Corp (NRZ) Needle Moving on Volume

• Bodhi: 2.10.1