DRM-Next Gets Ready For The Linux 4.9 Kernel

Systemd Adds New "ProtectSystem Strict" Option, Other New Tunables

Landing over night in systemd Git were several new tunables for offering better system security/protection. The systemd-udevd.service is also now run in a Seccomp-based sandbox to prohibit any network access. One of the new tunables is ProtectKernelTunables=. The ProtectKernelTunables option makes kernel variables via /proc/sys, /proc/acpi, and some other /proc interfaces read-only to all processes of the unit.

How to Crash Systemd in One Tweet

Cloudera Accelerates Customer Success by Enabling Production-Ready Big Data Analytics Across Multiple Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Environments

Cask Continues Integration With Cloudera for Faster Time to Value for Hadoop

Hortonworks Tightens Focus on the Cloud with Connected Data Architecture

OpenStack in Focus: Soundbytes From This Week

This past couple of weeks have brought a lot of interesting news related to the OpenStack cloud computing platform. There have been some notable new OpenStack distributions arriving, and some very compelling instructional and educational material has shown up as well.

Cloud Foundry all about Self

One of the joys of open source conference keynote is that they are rarely what you expect. There is often none of the hard sales pitch you get from big vendors desperate to appear relevant to their existing customers. Instead it tends to be all about the love and the reason why you are all at the event.

Volkswagen will 'halve IT operations costs' with Cloud Foundry's platform as a service cloud

Not long after announcing that it is building a huge OpenStack private cloud, German car manufacturer Volkswagen has revealed details of plans to add an application development layer, based on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is an open source platform as a service (PaaS), which makes development of applications simpler and more efficient. For Volkswagen, the move to a modern infrastructure environment is vital to creating new services around connected cars, for example.

Watch Docker CTO Solomon Hykes and More Talk Live at LinuxCon + ContainerCon Europe Next Week

The keynote speakers will focus on the technologies and trends having the biggest impact on open source development today, including containers, networking and IoT, as well as hardware, cloud applications, and the Linux kernel. See the full agenda of keynotes.

Diffs and the Power of the Docker Layering Model

Recently I’ve been working more with the sophisticated tool that is Docker, and it hasn’t escaped me that the foundation of the DevOps world is essentially composed of layer after layer of diffs.

Security advisories for Wednesday

Facebook, Uber, Slack, and Pandora Pros Praise Free Security Tools

Proponents of open source software argue that by letting passionate developers get involved and tweak underlying code, the tools they create are stronger and more reliable. Plus, for companies looking to bolster their digital defenses, the software has the added benefit of being free.

LibreSSL 2.5

LibreSSL 2.5 Released With New Features, iOS Support

LibreSSL 2.5.0 is available today as the newest version of this growing fork of OpenSSL led by the OpenBSD project. LibreSSL 2.5's libtls implementation now supports ALPN and SNI while handling four cipher suite groups, there is tightened error handling in some areas, support for OCSP intermediate certificates, initial support for Apple's iOS platform, and a variety of other fixes and functionality improvements.

Open source storage hits the mainstream

Open source storage has gained mainstream acceptance in high performance computing, analytics, object storage, cloud (OpenStack) and NAS use, but can it crack the enterprise?

Rogue Wave Improves Support for Open Source Software with IBM

Rogue Wave Software to improve open-source software support with IBM

Rogue Wave Software announces it is working with IBM to help make open source software (OSS) support more available. This will help provide comprehensive, enterprise-grade technical support for OSS packages.

Vendors and Customers Gettin' Open Sourcey With It

Basically, “open source enablement" seems to be about teaching customers how to embrace open source principles, both in terms of internal processes as well as external communities and ecosystems. As I've worked with many engineering and product teams over the years, I've seen many open source initiatives fail to reach their potential because of ingrained cultural obstacles that usually manifest in the form of corporate inertia that blocks forward progress.

Digium Announces Asterisk 14 Open Source Communications Software

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today at its annual AstriCon users and developers conference, announced Asterisk 14, the next major release of the world's most popular open source communications platform. Asterisk 14 continues the track of previous major releases, such as Asterisk 12 and Asterisk 13, by offering developer- and administrator-focused features and capabilities to simplify the scaling and deployment of Asterisk within large, service-based ecosystems.

Announcing the open source release of MORI, from Chalkbeat

In 2014, Chalkbeat developed and started using a WordPress plugin for tracking impact. We called it MORI — Measures of Our Reporting’s Influence. As we wrote then, MORI grew out of one of our key beliefs: Journalists can make a difference, but the ability to measure the difference we make can multiply our impact over time. If we can document how, why, when, and where we made a difference, we are more likely to repeat our success. The quantitative data we track in MORI lets us see the big picture of how our work affects the world, beyond raw readership analytics; the qualitative narrative we record helps us tell the story. Our editorial teams can put important impacts in the hands of our fundraising team and others to turn around and share with the broader education community.

ODL: Open Source Hastens Software Usability

Open Daylight Summit -- Open source is connecting users and developers more intimately, and that's a good thing, OpenDaylight Executive Director Neela Jacques said here today. In kicking off the OpenDaylight Summit, Jacques said the ability of users and developers to work side-by-side is evolving, and helping drive the faster pace at which open source can bring solutions to the industry. "Users can sit next to the developers of the code they use, and the interaction doesn't go one way," he said. "The real difference is the way users interact with developers. This is why we are able to get production-grade solutions so much faster than you ever would in proprietary world."

General Electric and Bosch announce IIoT collaboration

GE and Bosch to create open-source industrial IoT platform