By Serdar Yegulalp “Experimental” is a great adjective for Microsoft’s WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Besides being Microsoft’s attempt to lure Linux devs into making themselves comfortable in Windows, it also provides a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: September 2016
GitHub launches built-in project management boards for its code repos
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•By Blair Hanley Frank GitHub, the popular site for managing software development projects, is now also a lightweight project management service, thanks to a new feature. The company launched Projects on Wednesday, which …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apple Swift 3: Forward-looking, but not backward-compatible
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•By Serdar Yegulalp “Move fast and break things,” or so goes the saying. Apple’s doing both with the 3.0 version version of its Swift programming language. Swift, developed by Apple to replace Objective-C, is …read more Source:: OpenSource
Vodafone NZ fined NZ$165,000 for Red Essentials plan pricing error
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•Vodafone failed to backdate a NZ$10 discount on its Red Essentials plan for more than 15,000 customers, overcharging them by a collective NZ$92,000 in 2014. …read more Source:: Legal
Programming error leads to AU$2.5m write-off for Commonwealth Bank
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•Commonwealth Bank of Australia has written off AU$2.5 million and paid four infringement notices totalling AU$180,000 as a result of breaching responsible lending laws when providing personal overdraft facilities. …read more Source:: Legal
Microsoft readies Azure Service Fabric on Linux, inches toward open source
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft edged another step toward making Azure Service Fabric open source. The company released not the long-awaited Service Fabric source code but the next best thing: an official, supported release …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Vim 8.0 released
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•By Jim Lynch Vim 8.0 released Vim has long been an important tool for programmers and anyone else who needs a highly configurable text editor in Linux. And now version 8.0 of Vim has …read more Source:: OpenSource
MySQL 8.0: More Unicode, less hassle
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The development team for the open source MySQL database provided users yesterday with a peek into the future — no TARDIS required. In a blog post announcing MySQL 8.0.0’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Is Debian the gold standard for Linux security?
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•By Jim Lynch Is Debian the gold standard for Linux security? Security is an important priority for all users, even those who run Linux as their preferred operating system. One redditor wondered in a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Review: 5 open source alternatives for routers/firewalls
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•By Eric Geier Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These open source products deliver simple routing and networking features, like DHCP …read more Source:: OpenSource