News that a key group of communications networking technology developers met in Silicon Valley this week to take the planned development of an open source NFV platform to the next level is not only interesting in itself, but highlights some of the key shifts underway in the telecom sector. Source: Tech
Day: July 2, 2014
IRS policy that targeted Tea Party groups also aimed at open source projects
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•The IRS denied a proposal to grant 501 status to Yorba , a nonprofit organization that develops open source software for the Linux desktop. Source: Tech
DuckDuckGo may be the next big thing in search engines
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•In today’s open source roundup: DuckDuckGo may eventually give Google a run for its money. Source: Tech
Windows 8.x Usage Declines
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•Net Applications has found that Windows 8.x actually lost user share in June 2014, while Windows 7 has really been the operating system to gain from XP’s end of support. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Linaro announces Android Open Source Project port for ARMv8-A…
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•Following the recent announcement of the AndroidTM L Developer Preview supporting the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture, Linaro, the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture, today announced that a port of the Android Open Source Project to the ARMv8-A architecture has been made available as part of … (more) Source: Tech
spacegrids 1.5.2
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•The Python 2.7 Spacegrids module, “Numpy on grids”, provides useful classes for analyzing spatial data defined on grids . Source: Tech