In today’s open source roundup: Should Windows users move to Mac or Linux? Plus: How you can hire the best Linux talent, and what happens when Linux distros die? While some Windows users are quite satisfied with Microsoft’s desktop operating system, others are not. Does it make sense for Windows users make the jump to…
Month: February 2015
‘UP Your OPs Game’ By @DTzar | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps @MS_ITPro]
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Want to enable self-service provisioning of application environments in minutes that mirror production? Can you automatically provide rich data with code-level detail back to the developers when issues occur in production? In his session at DevOps Summit, David Tesar, Microsoft Technical Evangelist on Microsoft Azure and DevOps, will discuss how to accomplish this and more…
Funds Flow in for GnuPG Author After Article Reveals His Plight
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On Thursday ProPublica published the frustrating tale of Werner Koch, the one guy – yes really – who’s maintaining the extremely widely-used Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) software that people use to encrypt their email messages and digitally authenticate downloadable programs such as the Tor Browser. As the article revealed, Germany-based Koch was raising around ,000…
Facebook Funds GNU Privacy Guard Development
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The social media giant has pledged thousands to assist in the development of the open-source security project. Read more at ZDNet News Source: Linux
EnterpriseDB and Quru Join G-Cloud to Expand Postgres Access for Public Sector
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London, UK, February 6 2015 – EnterpriseDB (EDB), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, today announced its Postgres Plus Advanced Server is now available on G-Cloud. With EDB’s Postgres Plus database solutions now available on G-Cloud, UK government organisations can work with Quru, an EDB UK partner and a…
Scandit Doubles European Customers, Grows European Revenue Seven-Fold in 2014
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Barcode Technology Leader Expands Global Presence With Leading Brands And Taps New Strategic Sales Directors For Markets in Europe and Asia ZURICH, Switzerland – February 5 2015 – Scandit, developer of the leading software-based barcode scanning solutions for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, today announced that it has grown sales revenues in Europe by more…
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B – more detail
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation is aiming at desktop users with Raspberry Pi 2, a 6x more powerful version of its predecessor. Upgrades include a move to a quad core 900MHz ARM Cortex-A7 MP – from a single 700MHz ARM11 – and doubling the RAM to 1Gbyte in the Pi 2 Model B. For a historical…
BackBox Linux 4.1Keeps Security Researchers Anonymous
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There are many options available today for users looking at Linux distributions tailored for security research, and among them is BackBox Linux, which was updated to version 4.1 on Jan. 29. Backbox Linux 4.1 is based on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS distribution and uses the Xfce desktop environment. BackBox Linux is not intended to primarily…
Cyber Security a Top Concern for Federal IT Workers
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When considering improvement areas, 70 percent of U.S. Feds said they have doubts about their data centers’ security within the data center fabric. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Interview with Kev (elfy) of the Ubuntu Community Council
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The Ubuntu Community Council is the primary community governance body for the Ubuntu project. In this series of 7 interviews, we go behind the scenes with the community members who were elected in 2013 serve on this council with Mark Shuttleworth. Source: Tech