Monday, 17 November 2014

4 ways Docker is remaking Linux

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Red Hat, Ubuntu, Suse, and CoreOS are following different paths for adopting Docker and its virtualization technology

When containers first appeared in Linux, the natural assumption was that it would be yet another of many technologies that Linux has assimilated.
But then came Docker, a novel use of containers to make apps portable and self-contained. It's set Linux vendors scrambling, both to to rethink the way containers are implemented in Linux and to see how Linux can be reworked around Docker's application-centric model. 
Here's how four major enterprise Linux distributions are readying themselves for a Docker-ized future.

Microsoft upgrades its F# functional language

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Preview of F# 4.0 features runtime, compiler, and language enhancements

The F# team at Microsoft is offering a pre-release of the 4.0 version of the language, featuring core runtime and compiler improvements.
The object-oriented F# is Microsoft's entry into the burgeoning landscape of functional languages, which also features Scala, Clojure, and now even Java. Microsoft released F# code under open source license four years ago.