OSS: F-Droid, Rackspace, Oracle, CableLabs, Hacktoberfest, Mozilla, Facebook

• 7 years of open source: Twilio, Synopsys & Veracode

  “What was once considered fringe and anti-establishment has now become the norm powering some of the largest technological innovations of our times. In the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous driving and block chain, OSS leads the way,” said Mel Llaguno , open source solution manager at Synopsys Software Integrity Group.

• F-Droid, the open-source app repository, has been updated to v1.0

  If you are a big Android enthusiast, then you're probably familiar with the name F-Droid. If not, it's an extensive repository of open source apps, as well as the name of its accompanying client. Today that client has been updated to v1.0. If you remember our coverage of v0.103, v1.0 should look pretty familiar. While there have been some significant changes behind the scenes, apart from a general improvement in performance and ease of use, you're not likely to notice much.

• Rackspace ends discount hosting for open source projects

  Rackspace has ended a program under which it offered “generous discounts on hosting for more than 150 OSS projects and communities”, but flubbed the announcement. The closure of the program came to our attention after Reg operatives noticed the Tweet below from Eric Holscher, who posted an image in which it appears the fanatical services company planned to withdraw the discount entirely.

• Oracle Joins Serverless Race with Open Source Fn Project

  Oracle has released Fn, a new open-source, cloud-agnostic, serverless platform. While supporting ‘any programming language’, it initially launched with extensive Java capabilities and a JUnit test framework. Fn comprises four of main components: Fn Server, Fn FDKs, Fn Flow and Fn Load Balancer. Written in Go, Fn Server is the platform that runs the code.

• CableLabs Hints That It’s Planning an Open Source Group

  In a meeting at the SCTE-ISBE Cable Tec Expo show yesterday, Randy Levensalor, lead architect at CableLabs involved with the group’s software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) work, mentioned that CableLabs is planning to announce an open source group soon. He didn’t provide any further detail other than to say CableLabs will be making an announcement in about a month. We can speculate that it relates to CableLabs’ SNAPS initiative. SNAPS stands for “SDN/NFV Application development Platform and Stack.” The key objectives for SNAPS are to make it easier for NFV vendors to onboard their applications and to reduce the complexity of integration testing. The initiative attempts to accelerate the adoption of network virtualization, wrote Levensalor in a recent blog posting.

• Hacktoberfest 2017 @ Tel Aviv

  I gave my “Midburn – creating an open source community” talk in Hacktoberfest 2017 @ Tel Aviv. This is the local version of an initiative by DigitalOcean and GitHub.

• Bringing Mixed Reality to the Web

  Today, Mozilla is announcing a new development program for Mixed Reality that will significantly expand its work in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) for the web. Our initial focus will be on how to get devices, headsets, frameworks and toolsets to work together, so web developers can choose from a variety of tools and publishing methods to bring new immersive experiences online – and have them work together in a fully functional way.

• Facebook open sources concurrent programming debugger

  Learning how to do sequential computing, where one calculation is made after the other, is easy. Anyone who learns programmings gets that. Parallel programming, which empowers super-computing calculations to be made simultaneously, is much harder, but doable. Concurrent computing, where multiple calculations are made within overlapping time frames, now that's hard. It's also extremely useful whether it's tracking multiple trains on a single train-line or multiple comments on a single Facebook page. That's why Facebook has worked hard on concurrent programming. Now, Facebook is sharing its newest debugger tool: RacerD, its new open source race detector.

• DragonFly 5.0 released!

   

  The normal ISO and IMG files are available for download and install, plus an uncompressed ISO image for those installing remotely.  

Ubuntu: NEC, Ubuntu 17.10, Lubuntu 17.10, Xubuntu 17.10

• NEC Partners with Canonical and Screenly on Ubuntu Digital Signage Platform

• How To Download Ubuntu 17.10 via Torrent

• Ubuntu 17.10 launches welcoming back the laughing GNOME

  Ubuntu 17.10 is the first to return to the GNOME runtime following the decision to abandon Unity 8 and therefore end the company's official involvement with mobile phone development.

• Lubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released!

• Xubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” Released

today's howtos

• How to Install VMware Workstation 14 Pro on Debian 9 (Stretch)

• Splitting the Ion heaps

• More ways to examine network connections on Linux

• DASH trick-mode playback in GStreamer: Fast-forward/rewind without saturating your network and CPU

• How to install curl command on a Ubuntu Linux

• How to import a OpenVPN .ovpn file with Network Manager or Command Line in Linux

• Install Let's Encrypt and Secure Nginx with SSL/TLS in Debian 9

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