By Jim Lynch Linux gaming in 2016 Linux gamers have come a long way from the days when many people considered the platform to be a joke. These days Linux has a lot going …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: December 2016
Ctrl+Z, book review: Free speech versus privacy in the digital age
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•Should you be able to demand that personal information on the internet be deleted, hidden or anonymised? This book provides a much-needed measured analysis of the ‘right to be forgotten’. …read more Source:: Legal
Kubernetes 1.5 comes to Windows Server 2016
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Over the last couple of years, Docker’s been one of the fastest-moving projects in IT. But Kubernetes, Google’s system for orchestrating containers running at scale, stands to share Docker’s “move …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Why is stock Android so popular?
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•By Jim Lynch Why is stock Android so popular? There have been various attempts to “skin” Android (such as Touchwiz by Samsung) but many people still prefer Google’s stock version of Android. Why is …read more Source:: OpenSource
CoreOS brings auto-updates to Kubernetes
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•By Serdar Yegulalp CoreOS, creator of the Docker alternative rkt and many other container-centric innovations, is delivering a “self-driving” update to Kubernetes for its container-based Linux distribution. This self-updating methodology comes with the …read more Source:: OpenSource
How Mypy could simplify compiling Python
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It’s the dream of every professional Python programmer: Take an existing Python application, run it through a compiler, and generate high-speed, platform-native code that respects Python’s dynamic nature. In theory, that’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu Core has the keys to IoT security
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•By Swapnil Bhartiya In October, a DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure took down a big chunk of the internet, making sites like Amazon and Twitter inaccessible. It was the first major attack …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Will Samsung remove the headphone jack in the Galaxy S8?
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•By Jim Lynch Will Samsung’s Galaxy S8 have a headphone jack? Rumors have been flying around the Internet that Samsung is going to emulate Apple by removing the headphone jack in the Galaxy S8 …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cloud convenience is killing the open source database
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•By Matt Asay Open source has never been more important or, ironically, irrelevant. As developers increasingly embrace the cloud to shorten time to market, they’re speeding past open source, making it even …read more Source:: OpenSource
IBM building blockchain ecosystem
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•By Thor Olavsrud IBM believes blockchain technology, with its capability to create an essentially immutable ledger of digital events, will alter the way whole industries conduct transactions. To make that happen, Big Blue …read more Source:: OpenSource