By Serdar Yegulalp You know a language has arrived when its toolchain ships as a standard component with operating systems. Rust, Mozilla’s language for safe and speedy systems level programming, just landed a prime-time …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: August 2016
A ‘boring’ Docker fork could solve some problems – and create others
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By Serdar Yegulalp Not every open source project is destined to be forked. But when it happens, it’s as much a sign of popularity as it is disagreement within the developer community over …read more Source:: OpenSource
VMware dresses up Docker for the enterprise
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By Serdar Yegulalp VMware’s ongoing embrace of containers has expanded with the release of Harbor, an open source project that adds enterprise-level features to Docker. It could prove enticing to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Korean Supreme Court rules ex-Samsung employee leukemia cases not work related
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South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled against families of ex-Samsung employees who filed suit against the nation’s welfare asking for compensation for work-related injuries. …read more Source:: Legal
Linus Torvalds’ love-hate relationship with the GPL
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Linux’s founder appreciates what the GNU General Public License has given Linux, but he doesn’t appreciate how some open-source lawyers are trying to enforce it in court. …read more Source:: Legal
Google wants guaranteed negotiation protection from Australia’s big banks
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Google has requested for the ACCC to ensure that if some of Australia’s banks are given the right to collectively negotiate with Apple, its Android Pay service will be excluded. …read more Source:: Legal
Mozilla launches free website security scanning service
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By Lucian Constantin In order to help webmasters better protect their websites and users, Mozilla has built an online scanner that can check if web servers have the best security settings in place. <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource
CrossOver for Android promises Windows app compatibility, but only on Intel
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By Serdar Yegulalp Codeweavers, maker of the CrossOver app that allows Windows applications to run on Mac OS X and Linux, has announced a preview program of the new …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux at 25: A pictorial history
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By Katherine Noyes A momentous milestone Aug. 25 marks the 25th anniversary of Linux, the free and open source operating system that’s used around the globe in smarphones, tablets, desktop PCs, servers, supercomputers, and …read more Source:: OpenSource
VPN ban to protect copyright discriminatory, will drive users underground
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As the Singapore government mulls over the role of VPNs in bypassing geo-blocks, any potential ban will unfairly penalise the use of such tools for security and privacy reasons and …read more Source:: Legal