Swapnil Bhartiya, Author at TFiR

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With Queens, OpenStack brings some class to cloud

The OpenStack Foundation has announced the release of OpenStack Queens that comes with a boat load of features.

By Swapnil BhartiyaMarch 7, 20180

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Hacking in Mr. Robot is closer to reality [Podcast]

We live in a world where news is becoming fake and fiction is becoming real. Ironic. If you have watched Mr. Robot and ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaMarch 3, 20180

Article

Amazon Key: A backdoor to your front door

What if law enforcement authorities want backdoors in Amazon Key, just the way they want in your iPhone?

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 22, 20180

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Chef cooks up InSpec 2.0 to automate security compliance

Makes it easier for DevOps teams to keep up with security and compliance.

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 21, 20180

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Honey, I shrunk the Kubernetes core to grow its ecosystem

Did you know that the Kubernetes community is not just about distributed systems, it’s also about distributed decision making? Sarah Novotny is one ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 21, 20180

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Meet the woman who is telling the stories of women in tech

The Chasing Grace Project is a documentary series of six episodes about women in tech.

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 16, 20180

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Amazing Mobile Developer tools Microsoft is building [Podcast]

I talked to Nat Friedman, co-founder of Gnome. He now works at Microsoft and we discussed the cross platform developer tools his team ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 14, 20180

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Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop add support for Panasonic GH5S

You can now process 14bit RW2 images shot from Panasonic GH5S. Panasonic GH5S is undoubtedly the best mirrorless camera of 2018. Whether you ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 14, 20180

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More than one million people took Open Source courses

The demand for people who are skilled in open source technologies is growing. The fastest way to bag one such job is by ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 8, 20180

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Voxpro: making customers love your products

When we look at all these new companies like Airbairnb that are experiencing an explosive growth thanks to modern technologies like cloud and ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 1, 20180

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Red Hat moves tectonic plates, buys Core OS

“The next era of technology is being driven by container-based applications that span multi- and hybrid cloud environments, including physical, virtual, private cloud ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 31, 20180

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These are the most exciting Linux powered devices

Did you know that Tesla cars run on Linux?

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 29, 20180

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DJI Mavic AIR vs Mavic Pro & Spark, which one to buy?

DJI is the undisputed king of the sky when it comes to professional drones. No American company, including GoPro and Parrot managed to ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 24, 20180

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Linux Foundation teaches how to run Linux in Microsoft Azure

The foundation has announced a new course to help professionals manage Linux VMs in Azure cloud.

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 16, 20180

Tutorial

How to install Arch Linux

A rolling release guide to Arch Linux. Arch Linux is one of my favorite GNU/Linux distributions. However, it is not as easy to ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 16, 20180

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Kelsey Hightower on Kubernetes, open source and his own journey as a developer

In this exclusive interview, Hightower talks about Kubernetes, open source culture, and his personal journey. Kubernetes is known as the ‘Linux’ of the ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 16, 20180

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Nextcloud Talk, a fully encrypted enterprise chat platform

Today, the company added a new feature to the product called Nextcloud Talk. It adds chatting (text, audio and video) capabilities to product.

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 12, 20180

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$3 billion a quarter: the Red dream

Red Hat announced its third quarter results for fiscal year 2018. Third quarter total revenue was $748 million, up 22% year-over-year. Third quarter ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 22, 20170

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Bringing Linux to Microsoft Windows: an interview with Taylor Brown

I talked to Taylor Brown, Principal Lead Project Manager at Microsoft to discuss Linux on Windows. Brown talked about Widows Subsystem for Linux, ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 15, 20170

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2018 ‘can’ be the year of desktop Linux…

It’s a running joke within the desktop Linux community, but the fact is that 2018 can be the year of desktop Linux. Only ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 12, 20170

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IAG Finds Open Source to Be the Best Insurance for the Future

At the OpenStack Summit Sydney (Australia) I interviewed Eddie Satterly, who is working with IAG (Insurance Australia Group) to help them embrace Open ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 9, 20170

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Baidu joins Kubernetes barn CNCF as a gold member

Baidu’s artificial intelligence is powered by open source technologies like Kubernetes Baidu, one of the trinities of Chinese giants commonly known as BAT ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 8, 20170

Tutorial

How to install Arch Linux: the easiest guide

This is the v2 of my 'rolling-release-tutorial' of Arch Linux, which is meant to assist new users in getting started.

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 3, 20170

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Best Christmas Gifts for your techie child

Most of these toys stimulates creativity, curiosity and desire to build something new.

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 3, 20170

Tutorial

How to add shutdown switch to Raspberry Pi

Simply yanking off power cable will corrupt the OS; so we need to add on/off switch.

By Swapnil BhartiyaDecember 3, 20170

News

Apple’s latest invention: password-less root access

A serious security bug in High Sierra allows anyone to log into macOS as root user.

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 29, 20170

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Chinese WeChat is powered by OpenStack

WeChat maker Tencent wins the OpenStack Superuser Award and joins the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold Member. “We have maxed out the OpenStack ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 28, 20170

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CNCF orchestrates standardization around Kubernetes

One of the greatest contributions of the Linux Foundation, among many others, has been as a catalyst in the standardization of open source ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 28, 20170

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Solomon Hykes switches containers, becomes Chief Architect of Docker

“I think of myself more as an enabler; more of a coach than a player. It’s pretty fun, actually.” – Solomon Hykes Solomon ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 23, 20170

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How to install Raspbian OS on Raspberry Pi without using monitor and keyboard

I am using Raspberry Pi 3 for a musical light set-up for Christmas. The device is meant to be used in headless mode. ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 23, 20170

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Purism Librem 5: A Privacy-Focused Linux Smartphone

The NSA is spying on you. Do these words haunt you? Well, you’re not alone. Disclosures suggest that the NSA and its surveillance ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaOctober 9, 20170

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The all new Nvidia Shield is here

To compete with the all-new Apple TV 4K, Nvidia is offering a new variant of the SHIELD priced at $179, same as the ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaSeptember 21, 20170

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What’s new in iOS 11

iOS 11 brings tons of new features on the table like the new control center, lock screen & a revamped notification panel. The ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaSeptember 21, 20170

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Year of desktop Linux; separating fact from fiction

Will 2017 be the year of Linux? What about 2018? We’ll have mid-term elections. Let’s skip to 2020. Who has better chances at ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJuly 18, 20170

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System 76 creates a new OS for Linux Professionals

What’s Pop!_OS? Why is System76 creating yet another Linux-based operating system? Why can’t they just use something like elementary OS or Linux Mint? ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJune 29, 20170