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  • Open Source Software: A Model For Transparent Organizational Communication

    Open source software — that is, software that is licensed with its source code so anyone can freely modify, share and distribute their enhancements — is nearly as old as the computer industry itself. In 1953, Remington Rand’s UNIVAC division released its A-2 system with source code and invited its customers to send back improvements. That practice of sharing code to make software better has not only survived through to the present day, but it thrives on the modern internet, where a significant portion of the internet’s own infrastructure is built on open source software.

    There’s no shortage of proprietary software in the marketplace, but open source software continues to flourish. The collaborative spirit of open source — the idea that everyone can and should be able to contribute to making a good thing better — is what allows it to endure. WordPress, for example, is one of the biggest success stories in open source, and today powers a whopping 34% of internet websites.

  • Open source software: Redefining the future of mobile connectivity

    Mobile connectivity is at the heart of the digital economy. Its evolution has touched virtually every industry and technologies that lie over the horizon will be driven by it. Consumers have an insatiable appetite for data. They want blazing-fast data in remote areas and a host of functionality. Only more evolved mobile connectivity can meet their demands.

  • Open source, XAG move into common governance and co-create development

    Recently, Xrpgen.com announced that XAG code has been open source. It is reported that XAG project was launched on July 18, 2019. It is a public chain group developed based on the underlying technology of XRP blockchain network, with multiple sub chains. XRP currently ranks the third in the global mainstream digital asset circulation market value. Its network system is mainly used to provide financial institutions with safe and fast cross-border payment tools, so that the asset value can be transmitted and exchanged on the Internet as information.

  • QOwnNotes is an open source note taking tool for Windows, Linux and macOS that supports Markdown

    Ever wanted a note taking tool that supports Markdown? QOwnNotes may be worth a look (or two) if that is the case.

    QOwnNotes is a cross-platform open source note taking program for Windows, Linux and Mac Os X that saves notes locally and optionally in the cloud using ownCloud or NextCloud.

  • To stretch donations, Red Cross adopts open-source and cloud-native technologies

    An organization based on donations will face austerity at times. Wisely allocating volunteers demands a constant reshuffling of the deck of priorities. That takes rapid communication that isn’t always easy within large, monolithic structures — organizational or technological.

    The American Red Cross knows that all too well. It has found that less monolithic open-source models are the answer in both cases. “We try to be good stewards of donor dollars,” said Matthew Cascio (pictured), executive director of enterprise web systems marketing technology at the Red Cross.

  • Roadshow, Netflix seek to block open source Popcorn Time app

    Village Roadshow is spearheading a new effort to obtain Federal Court orders directing major Australian ISPs to block their customers from accessing eighty-seven online services accused of facilitating piracy.
    The effort is backed by Netflix Studios, the production arm of the streaming leviathan, as well as a group of US movie studios, Hong Kong’s Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), and Australian distributor Madman Anime Group.

    In addition to sites that offer illicit streaming, BitTorrent or direct downloads, and links to sites that provide search or index services for pirate material, the application, which seeks orders under Section 115a of the Copyright Act, also targets services offering unauthorised subtitle downloads and the home page of the Popcorn Time software.

  • The open source project that maps and archives the revolution
  • Nomura, NRI blockchain securities firm BOOSTRY to open source software

    On Thursday, Japan-based BOOSTRY launched the website of its open-source initiative, ibet. Through ibet, the blockchain bonds firm plans to release its token templates, smart contracts, and trading code to the public.

  • Huawei to Open-Source Data Virtualisation Engine

    Huawei has launched a new data platform that aims to handle the explosion of data from video and IoT devices, while removing the technical complexity of data infrastructure. The Chinese firm also teased an open source data virtualisation engine, OpenHetu, that’s due to be released in 2020.

    Data virtualisation is an approach to data management that lets an application retrieve and manipulate data, while abstracting away the technical details of how that data is stored. OpenHetu will come with an open-source kernel, Huawei said, meaning developers can add “data source extensions and SQL execution policies, to allow fast interoperability and development.”

  • How Open Source technologies benefit IIoT design

    For many, open source software has a certain “Wild West” image associated with it. In contrast to proprietary software, which can be viewed as stodgy, expensive, and confining, open source software seems to let you do whatever you want at little or no cost, providing the ultimate in technological freedom. Both of these viewpoints are gross oversimplifications. Nevertheless, the idea of open source as an unconventional solution persists.

    The reality, on the other hand, is that open source is all around us and is currently used in many popular and well-known software applications that are either fully open source or built on open source components.

  • Fusion to open-source new release of cross-chain exchange/custody tech

    The Fusion Foundation, the overseers of the Fusion blockchain, announced that the latest version of its DCRM (Distributed Control Rights Management System) will be released next week as an open-source implementation. DCRM is a cryptographic technology that enables various digital assets to be mapped on and off the Fusion blockchain seamlessly and securely. DCRM is a complete interoperability and bridge solution that is decentralized, efficient and secure.

  • Goldman will make data modeling program free as open-source software
  • Fintech News: Goldman Sachs To Make Modeling Software 'Alloy' Open Source

    The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) announced Wednesday that it's Platinum member investment bank Goldman Sachs would make its visual modeling software "Alloy" open source. "Alloy" is based on a modeling language known as "PURE," which will also be open-sourced.

    The announcement was made during the Open Source Strategy Forum in New York City.

    "Open source technology is setting us on a path to greater collaboration and building mutual understanding," co-chief data officer at Goldman Sachs Neema Raphael said. "PURE and Alloy have grown to become critical tools within our firm across the trade lifecycle that help us price; assess and evaluate risk; clear transactions; and perform regulatory reporting. We've only scratched the surface though -- we'll unlock tremendous value for the industry when we co-develop and share models."

  • Eyes on the prize: Top 7 open-source network monitoring tools

    Monitoring a live network and ensuring that it stays up can be a taxing job, which is why systems administrators need network monitoring tools. These tools can give them a clear idea of how well the systems, applications, and devices on their networks are performing in real-time, and even how they perform across time. Instead of waiting for an error to occur or for the network to experience downtime, systems administrators can employ network monitoring tools to ensure that they spot issues and address them before they cascade across the entire network. By automatically assessing traffic and response times, these tools help administrators work more efficiently.

    The key reason to look for an open-source option for network monitoring is that the world is now moving toward open source. The large communities, active development, lack of vendor lock-in, and more control over costs are factors that drive organizations to look to open source tools for network monitoring. Commercially available tools offer the benefits of reliability and round-the-clock support for technical issues, and they also employ teams to constantly upgrade the tools’ security and functioning. However, they don’t offer as much flexibility and freedom as an open-source solution would. If you’re looking for cost-effective alternatives, open-source networking monitoring tools are a great option as they are not only constantly updated by developers who often provide support through online forums, but they are also easily customizable to the needs of users. They offer a degree of flexibility and adaptability that many closed-source tools lack. Here are some of the best open-source network monitoring tools you can download today.

  • Enterprises finally ready for open source

    Globally, Linux-based expenditure is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 12.9 per cent over the next five years. This is concurrent to enterprises’ needs for cost-effectiveness, flexibility, reliability, agility, and security. Surprisingly, only 37 per cent of companies globally have open source programmes to establish organisational processes, best practices, and toolsets for how open source is adopted.

  • Red Hat fosters open source careers for female students to pursue IT
  • Red Hat Presents Women in Tech Tour to Promote Open Source Careers to the Middle East’s Future Female It Talent

    Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has successfully completed Women in Tech tour of universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

    Driven by a four-strong team of female Red Hatters, the tour was predominately tailored towards female university students. It presented discussions focused on open source, and what skills, both technical and non-technical, are required for successful careers in the world of IT and open source. The Red Hat team also engaged with faculty members to understand procurement pathways in the region as well as how universities are driving student progression and development for the future job landscape.

  • Open-source technology may spark grid modernization

    LF Energy, a project housed at the Linux Foundation, aims to use open-source technology in much the same way it was used to build the modern-day internet.

    “The value of open source is to create a shared, commodity layer of software that can accelerate innovation while dramatically shifting the economics of energy,” said Shuli Goodman, executive director of LF Energy. “This is similar to what has happened in other industries, it’s time for no more black boxes (proprietary technology). That’s over.”

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    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

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    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB is a high-performance, highly scalable document-oriented NoSQL database. Unlike in SQL databases where data is stored in rows and columns inside tables, in MongoDB, data is structured in JSON-like format inside records which are referred to as documents. The open-source attribute of MongoDB as a database software makes it an ideal candidate for almost any database-related project. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the MongoDB NoSQL database on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.

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    Ghost is a very popular open-source content management system. Started as an alternative to WordPress and it went on to become an alternative to Substack by focusing on membership and newsletter. The creators of Ghost offer managed Pro hosting but it may not fit everyone's budget. Alternatively, you can self-host it on your own cloud servers. On Linux handbook, we already have a guide on deploying Ghost with Docker in a reverse proxy setup. Instead of Ngnix reverse proxy, you can also use another software called Traefik with Docker. It is a popular open-source cloud-native application proxy, API Gateway, Edge-router, and more. I use Traefik to secure my websites using an SSL certificate obtained from Let's Encrypt. Once deployed, Traefik can automatically manage your certificates and their renewals. In this tutorial, I'll share the necessary steps for deploying a Ghost blog with Docker and Traefik.