Cloud Computing: Linux and open source 2014 – It was the best of years, it was the worst of years

Grazed from ZDNet. Auhor: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

Linux and open-source software had many high points this year, but it also had many low ones as well. Let’s just get it over with and start with the worst.

Linux and open-source fiascoes

1) Heartbleed

When you program with open-source the right way, it creates great software. When you accept open-source as magic, you end up with Heartbleed. Heartbleed, if you don’t recall, was an OpenSSL security hole that affected hundreds of millions of websites, It’s root cause was that everyone–and I mean everyone–just assumed that it was safe because it was open source. So, for years no one bothered to check to see if the code really was reliable. It wasn’t…

2) Systemd wars

If you’re not deep into Linux, you’ve never heard of systemd. If you are serious about Linux you couldn’t avoid it. Systemd started as a way of controlling what programs run when a Linux system boots up . While systemd is compatible with SysV and Linux Standard Base (LSB) init scripts, systemd is meant to be a drop-in replacement for these older ways of getting a Linux system running…

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