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Triathlon  

The Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage package formats work across distributions, but each has its specific disadvantages.

Under the Microscope  

In malware analysis, a sandbox can provide insight into the software and its run-time environment. While a sandbox can prevent the execution of malicious code with built-in detection mechanisms, malware developers can use countermeasures to take advantage of those same detection mechanisms.

On the DVD  

Ubuntu Server 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" LTS

Tech News  

Meltdown and Spectre revisit Intel, AMD, and ARM processors, Orangeworm, a new hacking group, targets the healthcare industry, Docker EE 2.0 announced, Remote code execution vulnerability found in Cisco

Teamwork  

Because Samba can be integrated easily into heterogeneous environments, a kind of heterogeneous administration is often necessary, and security falls by the wayside. We show you how to use a Samba file server securely in heterogeneous environments.

Ready for the Future  

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 introduces SQL Server on Linux, along with machine learning services, support for graph data, and on-premises Power BI.

Bug Hunt  

Bugs can live in Docker containers. Read on for tips on how to debug them.

Data Stacker  

The open source relational database RSQL aims to completely replace slimmed-down instances of Microsoft SQL Server.

Geographically Diverse Failover in the Cloud  

With the Terraform configuration management tools and the Amazon Route 53 DNS service, you can configure AWS to provide geographically diverse failover between two web servers.

Tower of Power  

The upstream project of the Ansible Tower enterprise solution is now freely available as AWX. We look at Red Hat’s new web-based console manager for Ansible deployments and discover its capabilities.