By Paul Rubens Last month, BlackBerry announced that it was quitting the phone-making business, but the BlackBerry name will live on. That’s because the company has entered into a licensing agreement with …read more Source:: OpenSource
Day: October 31, 2016
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu versus Linux Mint: Which one is better?
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•By Jim Lynch Ubuntu versus Linux Mint Ubuntu and Linux Mint are two of the best known desktop distributions around. Both are extremely popular with Linux users, but which one is better? Since each …read more Source:: OpenSource
Project for porting C to Rust gains Mozilla’s backing
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The central appeal of Mozilla’s Rust language is that it provides a safe platform for fast systems programming — as fast as C but with safety features that C doesn’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
What if China or India was behind Yahoo spying order?
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•Lack of response from the US government about its Yahoo e-mail surveillance order is troubling and will have serious implications on cybersecurity for the rest of the world, including Asian …read more Source:: Legal
4 big changes coming soon to Firefox
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mozilla’s ambitions are hard to ignore. An impressive new programming language, Rust, has emerged as a product of the group’s efforts to create Servo, a web rendering engine designed …read more Source:: OpenSource