oracle change their free tier

the previously mentioned oracle cloud free tier offering we mentioned last year  2019/09/18/oracle-launch-always-free-cloud-tier/ you now get

• One Oracle GNU/Linux VM
• One Oracle Autonomous Database

see

• https://myservices.us.oraclecloud.com/mycloud/signup
• https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/FreeTier
• cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/Compute/Concepts/computeoverview.htm
• https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/Database/Concepts/adboverview.htm
• https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/FreeTier/faq.htm

IBM Red Hat OpenShift buy out starts to pay off

According to the register IBM have just signed a $1B Red Hat OpenShift contract with TSB

• https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/15/tsb_outsourcing_ibm/

a vm platform manager from @proxmox for #kvm and #lxc

ProxMox VE is a vm platform manager from @proxmox

• https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve/features
• https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve/requirements
• https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page

Proxmox VE is a powerful open-source server virtualization platform to manage two virtualization technologies – KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) for virtual machines and LXC for containers – with a single web-based interface

as listed on stackshare.io

• https://stackshare.io/virtualization-platform
• https://stackshare.io/proxmox-ve

yandex cloud services

yandex cloud services

• https://tech.yandex.com/yandexcloud/
• https://cloud.yandex.com/services/compute?utm
• https://cloud.yandex.com/services/storage?utm
• https://cloud.yandex.ru/services/vision?utm

 

Oracle launch Always Free Cloud Tier

Oracle launch Always Free Cloud Tier

• https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oow19-oracle-free-tier-091619.html
• https://www.oracle.com/uk/cloud/free/

Always Free program includes the essentials users need to build and test applications in the cloud: Oracle Autonomous Database, Compute VMs, Block Volumes, Object and Archive Storage, and Load Balancer. Specifications include:

• 2 Autonomous Databases (Autonomous Data Warehouse or Autonomous Transaction Processing), each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage
• 2 Compute VMs, each with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory
• 2 Block Volumes, 100 GB total, with up to 5 free backups
• 10 GB Object Storage, 10 GB Archive Storage, and 50,000/month API requests
• 1 Load Balancer, 10 Mbps bandwidth
• 10 TB/month Outbound Data Transfer
• 500 million ingestion Datapoints and 1 billion Datapoints for Monitoring Service
• 1 million Notification delivery options per month and 1000 emails per month

to install @clearlinux on @virtualbox you need to use the #server iso instead of the #desktop iso

to install @clearlinux on @virtualbox you need to use the #server iso instead of the #desktop iso

• https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/get-started/bare-metal-install-server.html#bare-metal-install-server
• do not install the bundle desktop-autostart
• https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/get-started/virtual-machine-install/virtualbox-cl-installer.html

how to install @virtualbox #guest tools on @mx_linux gnu/linux #distro

to install @virtualbox #guest tools on @mx_linux gnu/linux #distro first remove the broken pre-installed virtualbox packages

# aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-x11
# aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-utils
# aptitude remove virtualbox-dkms
# aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-dkms

then reboot and mount virtualbox guest additions cd and run VBoxLinuxInstall