By Serdar Yegulalp The Free Software Foundation’s Linux distribution gNewSense is finally out in its fourth revision after a two-plus-year development cycle. The FSF is best known for its unrelenting advocacy for …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: May 2016
What does the future of the Apache Software Foundation hold?
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•By Thor Olavsrud The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) will hold its second annual Apache: Big Data North America conference in Vancouver, BC, starting Monday next week. Alongside keynotes from companies like Netflix and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open-source really could help get you a job, study finds
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•By Jon Gold Experience in the open-source world is a valuable asset for technology job-seekers, and it’s getting more so over time, according to the latest Open-Source Jobs Report, which was <a class="colorbox" href="http://go.linuxfoundation.org/download-2016-open-source-jobs-report" …read more Source:: OpenSource
NativeScript warms up to AngularJS for mobile dev
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•By Paul Krill NativeScript, Telerik’s open source platform for building native cross-platform mobile applications, has moved to a 2.0 release this week, highlighted by integration with the planned AngularJS 2 Web development framework. <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource
HBase: The database big data left behind
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•By Matt Asay A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in big data. The primary pairing for Hadoop, HBase saw adoption skyrocket, but it has since …read more Source:: OpenSource
Telstra argues against compliance costs for piracy website blocking
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•The cost of complying with court orders to block The Pirate Bay and other piracy websites — which TPG put at AU$50 per DNS block, and M2 put at AU$800 …read more Source:: Legal
Kubernetes-powered PaaS focuses on devops
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The creator of Kel, a devops-focused PaaS for Web applications has released an open source edition of its platform. Kel is based on the container-cluster management system Kubernetes …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux Foundation tackles open source security with new badge program
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Organizations have plenty of choices when looking at open source software, but the challenge lies in picking the right project to fit their needs. The CII Best Practices Badge program …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apple loses exclusive ownership of ‘iPhone’ name in China
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•A recent ruling by a Chinese court has granted the “IPHONE” trademark to a local firm which sells leather goods such as handbags and mobile phone cases. …read more Source:: Legal
OpenSSL patches two high-severity flaws
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid OpenSSL has released versions 1.0.2h and 1.0.1t of its open source cryptographic library, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities that can lead to traffic being decrypted, denial-of-service attacks, and arbitrary …read more Source:: OpenSource