By Jim Lynch Firefox 51 released The Firefox developers at Mozilla have been hard at work on a new version of the popular web browser. Firefox 51 has just been released, and you can …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: January 2017
Visual Studio Test joins the Microsoft open source push
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•By Serdar Yegulalp First came the open-sourcing of Microsoft’s .Net software platform. Now comes the open-sourcing of many — if not all — of the tools and support infrastructure for the platform. Last …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: Is Xfce better than Windows 10?
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•By Jim Lynch Is Xfce better than Windows 10? One of the best things about Linux is the range of choices it offers when it comes to desktop environments. There really is a Linux …read more Source:: OpenSource
The cloud updraft grows stronger
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•By Eric Knorr You might think we make an awful lot of fuss about the cloud, considering that global public cloud spending amounts to a small fraction of IT spending overall — roughly …read more Source:: OpenSource
6 key points about Intel’s hot new Linux distro
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The great thing about Linux is is that anyone possessing the wherewithal and dedication can produce a distribution to satisfy their own needs. That’s also the bad thing, as it …read more Source:: OpenSource
Docker 1.13 cleans up container management, but Mac issues remain
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Docker unveiled version 1.13 of its core container product Thursday, with fixes that allow for more minimal container images, automatic cleanup of unused data, easier access to logs, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Who’s cashing in on containers? Look to the cloud
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•By Matt Asay Docker-style containers are so hot they’ve broken the scale ETR uses to measure CIO intent to purchase enterprise technology, registering “the strongest buying intention score ever recorded in …read more Source:: OpenSource
Labor ‘very concerned’ about telco data retention use in civil cases
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•Mark Dreyfus has said the review of whether data retention should contain exceptions for use in some civil cases should be public, and needs to be explained ‘very, very carefully’ …read more Source:: Legal
ICANN still under US laws, but checks in place to avoid hostile takeover
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•US government may no longer have unique oversight of the internet’s naming system, but ICANN remains bound by Californian laws, says official, who adds that checks are in place to …read more Source:: Legal
Want to run your own Amazon ‘region’? Stratoscale shows you how
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•By John Gallant Stratoscale is a small company with a very big ambition: to turn your datacenter into an Amazon Web Services (AWS) region. Forget OpenStack, forget VMware. Stratoscale aims to help IT …read more Source:: OpenSource