By Fahmida Y. Rashid Popular open source automation server Jenkins has fixed multiple security vulnerabilities. The latest version changes how plug-ins use build parameters, though, so developers will need to adapt to the new …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: May 2016
ICAC finds former Sydney University IT manager acted corruptly
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•New South Wales’ corruption watchdog has found a former IT manager engaged in serious corrupt conduct by improperly exercising his functions as an official at Sydney University. …read more Source:: Legal
Fedora 24 beta focuses on containers and the cloud
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The latest edition of Red Hat’s bleeding-edge Linux distribution, Fedora 24, is now available in beta, with the majority of the changes addressing how cloud applications are hosted …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: The most popular Android apps of all time
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•By Jim Lynch The most popular Android apps of all time Android has long been tops when it comes to smartphone market share, but what about the apps that run on it? Quartz reports …read more Source:: OpenSource
Redis plants the seeds for an open source ecosystem
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•By Serdar Yegulalp In-memory database and caching solution Redis, used to boost everything from Spark to Amazon Web Services, adds a new, long-promised feature called Redis Modules. Announced at RedisConf …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: How BSD was built, and how it lost the lead to Linux
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•By Jim Lynch How BSD was built and how it lost the lead to Linux BSD has been eclipsed by the popularity of Linux over the years. But how did BSD get started? And …read more Source:: OpenSource
Where to cut corners when the security budget gets tight
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•By Ryan Francis Whenever creating a budget, there is always the rainy day fund or the contingency account in case of unexpected circumstances. But what if those circumstances are a data breach that …read more Source:: OpenSource
IT hiring keeps rolling, but at a slower pace
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The good news: IT hiring is still strong. The bad news: It’s shaping up to be a second straight year of decline. In its monthly analysis of Buearu of Labor Statistics …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux Mint 18 won’t include multimedia codecs
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•By Jim Lynch Linux Mint 18 won’t include multimedia codecs Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop distributions around. And one of its most appealing features was that it shipped with multimedia …read more Source:: OpenSource
Swift for Windows arrives at last, but as an unofficial port
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•By Serdar Yegulalp An open source effort to port Apple’s Swift language to Windows last week released new versions of both source code and binaries. Swift was originally developed by Apple as a replacement …read more Source:: OpenSource