Nintendo Switch hack + Dolphin Emulator could bring GameCube and Wii game support

This week security researchers released details about a vulnerability affecting NVIDIA Tegra X1 processors that makes it possible to bypass secure boot and run unverified code on some devices… including every Nintendo Switch game console that’s shipped to date. Among other things, this opens the door for running modified versions of Nintendo’s firmware, or alternate operating systems such as a GNU/Linux distribution. And if you can run Linux… you can also run Linux applications. Now it looks like one of those applications could be the Dolphin emulator, which lets you play Nintendo GameCube and Wii games on a computer or other supported devices.

Openwashing Leftovers

• We pick a storage CTO's brains on Linux-heads, big vendors – and should all the admins NVMe? [Ed: Cloudwashing and marketing in 'interview' form]

  He became VP for engineering product strategy at Cavium-owned QLogic in 2014, moving on to be the CTO in late 2014, and then CTO for Ethernet and Fibre Channel Adapters in 2016, leaving for semi-retirement at the end of 2017.

• How open source Ceph compares to commercial Ceph products [Ed: Well, “open source” and “commercial” are not opposites. He means proprietary, not commercial.]

  Ceph software-defined storage is available for free, thanks to its open source nature. However, in some situations, a commercial Ceph product could be the way to go.

• Audi puts open source big data foundations in place for car usage data [Ed: Audi calls surveillance "open source" or "big data". The kind of openwashing that insults FOSS.]

• Microsoft’s C++ library manager now available for Linux and macOS [Ed: Proprietary trap for GNU/Linux from the company that blackmails GNU/Linux vendors and bribes officials/executives to not use GNU/Linux]

• Percona Delivers First, Free, Open Source Method of Centralized Key Management for MySQL

• Apple Open Sources FoundationDB, a Distributed Datastore

Linux Foundation: New Members, Cloud Foundry, and Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit

• 41 Organizations Join The Linux Foundation to Support Open Source Communities With Infrastructure and Resources

  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the addition of 28 Silver members and 13 Associate members. Linux Foundation members help support development of the shared technology resources, while accelerating their own innovation through open source leadership and participation. Linux Foundation member contributions help provide the infrastructure and resources that enable the world's largest open collaboration communities.

• Cloud Foundry for Developers: Architecture

  Back in the olden days, provisioning and managing IT stacks was complex, time-consuming, and error-prone. Getting the resources to do your job could take weeks or months. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) was the first major step in automating IT stacks, and introduced the self-service provisioning and configuration model. VMware and Amazon were among the largest early developers and service providers. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) adds the layer to IaaS that provides application development and management. Cloud Foundry is for building Platform as a Service (PaaS) projects, which bundle servers, networks, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and development tools into scalable, centrally-managed hardware and software stacks. That is a lot of work to do manually, so it takes a lot of software to automate it.

• Jonathan Corbet on Linux Kernel Contributions, Community, and Core Needs

  At the recent Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit, I sat down with Jonathan Corbet, the founder and editor-in-chief of LWN to discuss a wide range of topics, including the annual Linux kernel report. The annual Linux Kernel Development Report, released by The Linux Foundation is the evolution of work Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman had been doing independently for years. The goal of the report is to document various facets of kernel development, such as who is doing the work, what is the pace of the work, and which companies are supporting the work.

Best Linux server distro of 2018

As a free and open source operating system, Linux is the ideal candidate for setting up your own server. The community of developers behind each Linux distribution (distro) regularly review the source code of their chosen OS to make sure it's free of bugs. When it comes to servers, the emphasis should obviously be on stability. While upgrades are a good thing on the face of it, they have the potential to interfere with the smooth running of your server. We’ve highlighted some of our favourite Linux server distros in this article, including operating systems that offer long term support, stability, and ideally a fast setup process.