Tag: open source
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The 5 Tech Podcasts I Listen to (and You Should Too)
I listen to a lot of podcasts. Like many people, I listen in the car, in the morning while getting ready, at night before bed, and when doing things around the house. They run the gamut. Some are built around short stories, others take deep dives into individual songs, some are interview-based, others focus on…
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Infrastructure Is Eating the World: Circonomics and the Cult of “Bigger Is Better”
TL;DR: The market’s trillion-dollar AI boom is built on one assumption: whoever spends most on infrastructure wins. DeepSeek briefly exposed how fragile that belief is, and how quickly the system could unravel if it’s wrong. It could happen again. On the last Monday of January, markets lost over a trillion dollars in value. Nvidia alone…
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How DeepSeek R1 Triggered a $1 Trillion NASDAQ Drop and caught the AI Industry by surprise
Note (April 2025):This post was originally written in early February, just after DeepSeek’s R1 model sent shockwaves through the AI world. Since then, the model has been downloaded thousands of times, sparked forks and spinoffs, and raised serious questions about the future of proprietary AI. The original post has been lightly updated for clarity and…
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Dell’s Developer line turns 10 — Looking back at a Project Sputnik’s first decade
Originally published February 3, 2023 10 years ago, Dell’s first developer system, the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition became available in the US and Canada. What made this product unique was not only that it had been developed out-of-process and by a team largely made up of volunteers, but it targeted a constituency completely new…
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Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!)
We are proud to announce the latest and greatest Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. The system, which is based on 10th Gen Intel® Core™ 10nm mobile processors, represents the 10th generation of the XPS 13 Developer Edition (see a list of the previous nine generations below). This 10th generation system features an updated design and…
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Project Sputnik: Want to join the cause?
Passionate about Linux? About Developers? We’ll have we got the opportunity for you. 😊 The Project Sputnik team is planning to beef up our efforts and we’re looking for a passionate soul to join the cause and help drive Dell’s line of developer laptops and workstations. This individual would have an opportunity to handle community…
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Dell’s Linux landing page goes live!
One subject we often get feedback on, and it doesn’t tend to be the positive kind, is the difficulty in finding Linux systems on Dell.com. The following tweet does a good job of summing up people’s frustrations Im sure you get this all the time – but I dont understand why it’s so hard to…
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The new Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available in the US, Europe and Canada
Last January the Dell XPS 13 developer edition (9370) made its debut. Today we’re excited to announce that one year later its successor, the XPS 13 developer edition (9380), is now available in the US, Canada and Europe. (Note: both the 9370 and 9380 will coexist for a period of time.) Project Sputnik The 9380…
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Sputnik turns 6! Presenting the folks behind it
Six years ago today the first Project Sputnik system appeared on dell.com. It all started at the beginning of 2012 with a pitch to an internal innovation committee. A month after the pitch, on the ides of March, the committee gave the go ahead for an exploratory project to test out the idea of a…
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Precision Developer Editions 7530/7730 now online — Welcome the power pair
Not long ago I introduced the next gen of Project Sputnik’s Linux-based Dell Precision Mobile workstations: the 3530, 5530, 7530 and the 7730. At that time the 3530 was available for purchase. Today I’m happy to announce that the uber-powerful 7530 and 7730 are now live on dell.com Dell Precision 7530 Mobile Workstation, developer edition…
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Welcome the new Dell Precision developer editions! Gen 3 of the beefy line up
Project Sputnik keeps rolling on! Today I’m proud to announce the new the Linux-based Dell Precision Mobile workstation line: the 3530, 5530, 7530 and the 7730. These systems, which represent the fourth generation of the Precision developer editions, come preloaded with Ubuntu and have been RHEL certified. These new thinner, lighter, premium-built Precision mobile workstations feature…
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XPS 13 Developer Edition — the 7th gen is here!
-> Updated June 22, 2018 – Three 16GB/FHD configs added to the line up in the US -> Updated Jan 26, 2018 – Added list of countries that offer the XPS 13 developer edition offline. Today I am excited to announce the availability of the 7th generation of the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition. Project…
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Project Sputnik Turns Five!
It was five years ago today, on November 29, 2012, that the first Project Sputnik system was launched. Who would have thought we would have made it this far. The reason why Project Sputnik is not only still around but keeps growing is because of the developer community. In fact, without the input and support…
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EdgeX – Open Source IoT effort hosted by the Linux Foundation
Last month at the Cloud Foundry Summit Europe, not only did I attend various sessions, but I got to deliver one myself. The talk, entitled “EdgeX Foundry – Open Interop Platform for the IoT Edge,” gives a high level overview of the EdgeX Foundry which is an open source effort hosted by the Linux Foundation. …
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Harnessing Kubernetes – Cloud Foundry Container Runtime
A few weeks ago I attended Cloud Foundry summit Europe 2017 held in Basel, Switzerland. One of the more interesting topics that came up was the “Cloud Foundry Container Runtime,” an effort formerly known as “Kubo.” Kubo, which comes from “Kubernetes on Bosh,” was created jointly by Pivotal and Google in order to provide a simple…
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Open Source Summit videos – Sputnik, Bitnami, ARM and OpenShift
Last month I attend Open Source Summit (OSS) North America which was held in Los Angeles from September 11- 14. This year the Linux Foundation brought four conferences under the umbrella name, “The Open Source Summit” (OSS). The four conferences were LinuxCon, ContainerCon, CloudOpen plus the new “Open Community Conference.” Interviewing and being Interviewed While at the conference,…
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Video Interviews from Cloud Foundry Summit
Back in June I attended the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, CA and grabbed a bunch of interviews. As an example, here is a quick summary of the summit as seen through the eyes of Tech evangelist and commentator Ben Kepes: Ben Kepes Ben talks about the great vibe and community as well as…
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Video Walk thru of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (9350)
Last night as I was surfing the interwebs, I came across a “Tech Pills” video that covers the XPS 13 developer edition (9350). [The 9350 is the generation that proceded the current offering (9360) which came out in October. The two systems utilize the same chassis and the former features the Skylake processor whereas the latter…
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Microsoft and Containers
Earlier this summer I was out in Seattle for DockerCon. Among the people I interviewed was Taylor Brown of Microsoft. While Microsoft may not be the first company you think of when talking containers, they actually have a bunch going on. Taylor in fact leads the team focusing on the server container technology coming out…
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An Interview with Cloud Foundry Foundation’s CEO, Sam Ramji
A couple of months ago at the Cloud Foundry summit I tried to grab Sam Ramji, CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, to do a short interview. Unfortunately the stars didn’t align and it didn’t happen. At SpringOne Platform however I had better luck. Sam, who lead off the keynotes on day two, sat and…