Packet.net has premium baremetal servers that start at $36.50 per month for a quad-core Atom C2550 with 8GB RAM and 80GB SSD, on a 1Gbps Internet connection. On the other end of the scale, there is an option for a 24-core (two Intel CPUs) system with 256GB RAM and a total of 2.8TB SSD disk
Alibaba Cloud is like Amazon Web Services as they offer quite similar cloud services. They are part of the Alibaba Group, a huge Chinese conglomerate. For example, the retailer component of the Alibaba Group is now bigger than Walmart. Here, we try out the cloud services. The main reason to select Alibaba Cloud is to
Ξέρουμε για τις εικονικές μηχανές (virtual machines) όπως Virtualbox και VMWare, υπάρχουν όμως και οι περιέκτες (containers) όπως Docker και LXD (προφέρεται λεξ ντι). Εδώ θα δούμε για τους περιέκτες LXD (LXD containers), με την υποστήριξη να είναι ήδη διαθέσιμη σε όσους έχουν Ubuntu 16.04 ή νεότερο. Για τις υπόλοιπες διανομές χρειάζεται εγκατάσταση του πακέτου
In How to run Wine (graphics-accelerated) in an LXD container on Ubuntu we had a quick look into how to run GUI programs in an LXD (Lex-Dee) container, and have the output appear on the local X11 server (your Ubuntu desktop). In this post, we are going to see how to generalize the instructions in
Update #1: Added info about adding the gpu configuration device to the container, for hardware acceleration to work (required for some users). Update #2: Added info about setting the permissions for the gpu device. Wine lets you run Windows programs on your GNU/Linux distribution. When you install Wine, it adds all sort of packages, including 32-bit
Update #1: I posted at the Scaleway Linux kernel discussion thread to add support for the Ubuntu Linux kernel and Add new bootscript with stock Ubuntu Linux kernel #349. Scaleway has been offering ARM (armv7) cloud servers (baremetal) since 2015 and now they have ARM64 (armv8, from Cavium) cloud servers (through KVM, not baremetal). But
LXD is the pure-container hypervisor that is pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 (or newer) and also available in other GNU/Linux distributions. When you first configure LXD, you need to make important decisions. Decisions that relate to where you are storing the containers, how big that space will be and also how to set up networking. In
Neo4j is a different type of database, is a graph database. It is quite cool and it is worth to spend the time to learn how it works. The main benefit of a graph database is that the information is interconnected as a graph, and allows to execute complex queries very quickly. One of the
In this post we are going to see how to create a snap for a utility called timg. If this is the very first time you heard about snap installation packages, see How to create your first snap. Today we learn the following items about creating snaps with snapcraft, the source of timg comes with
In this post we are going to see how to make snap installation packages for a program called lolcat. What you need for this tutorial? This tutorial is similar to Snap a python application. If you first follow that tutorial, then this one will reinforce what you have learned and expand to dealing with more
Last week there was a webinar from @DellCarePRO titled Ubuntu Basic Webinar. Today the webinar video Ubuntu Basics Webinar has been posted online, and here is the summary. Introduction Ubuntu installation as dual-boot Talk by Barton George There was emphasis that the initial
In the tutorial How to create a snap for how2 (stackoverflow from the terminal) in Ubuntu 16.04 we saw how to create a snap with snapcraft for the CLI utility called how2. That was a software based on nodejs. In this post we will repeat the process for another CLI utility called howdoi by Benjamin
