By Jim Lynch The 2016 MacBook Pro and Linux There is a subset of the Linux community that likes running Linux on Apple hardware. Strange as it may sound, these users enjoy the virtues …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: November 2016
Linux Foundation doubles down on support for tamper-free software
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is renewing its financial support for a project that ensures binaries produced from open source software projects are free of tampering. The …read more Source:: OpenSource
8 projects that give WebAssembly a lift
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•By Serdar Yegulalp WebAssembly, the portable code format positioned as an option to run any language in the browser, is poised to move from lab toy to production tool. But there’s still a …read more Source:: OpenSource
After a decade, open source Java is still controversial
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•By Paul Krill Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, with many in the community extolling the importance of an open Java, while others remain critical of its …read more Source:: OpenSource
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds new workflow options
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The big changes rolled out for GitHub Enterprise 2.8 may seem familiar, but don’t say GitHub is running out of ideas. Instead, the company is adding tools to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Asia must adopt ‘data protection by design’ in IoT era
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•Data privacy needs to be ingrained into the minds of businesses and engineers, especially as Internet of Things and mobile devices become more widely used. …read more Source:: Legal
IDG Contributor Network: 4K streaming and Google’s Chromecast Ultra
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•By Jim Lynch 4K streaming and the Chromecast Ultra Google’s new Chromecast Ultra is now available and sells for $69. The new device lets you stream in 4K and offers better processing power. …read more Source:: OpenSource
4 open source initiatives that need your help
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•By Serdar Yegulalp What makes open source projects special isn’t the software or even the licensing, it’s the pooling of talents and the spirit of free giving around these projects. But not all open …read more Source:: OpenSource
Review: Microsoft takes on TensorFlow
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•By Martin Heller Like Google, Microsoft has been differentiating its products by adding machine learning features. In the case of Cortana, those features are speech recognition and language parsing. In the case …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brandis introduces telco national security legislation in Parliament
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•The telco national security legislation has been introduced to Parliament after consultation with industry that did not achieve much in the way of changes. …read more Source:: Legal