Leftovers: OSS

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Google Chrome for Android is Now Open Source
Google has just released most of the source code for the Chrome for Android web browser, so now developers will be able to create browsers based on it, just like they do with the desktop version.
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DreamFactory REST API services now on Docker
DreamFactory Software says its open source REST API services platform is now available as a Docker container.
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Graylog 1.1 Open Source Log Analytics App Sports Enhanced UI
Lots of organizations are aware of the potential value of their IT logs; it’s just that they’re not in a financial position to do much about. To help internal IT teams overcome that issue, Graylog developed an open source log analytics application that has been upgraded to provide access to both Linux and Windows machine data via a new user interface.
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Accessibility Testing Goes Open Source and Mainstream
Deque's award-winning accessibility rules engine, aXe, is now open source and available for download. aXe (The Accessibility Engine) is a JavaScript library that includes more than 15 years of industry-leading accessibility research and best practices to yield superior automated test results.
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LinkedIn opens up Pinot to give more developers a taste
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LinkedIn open-sources its Pinot real-time analytics software
LinkedIn today is making its Pinot real-time analytics software available under an open-source license. It’s the latest major release of open-source software from LinkedIn, a company known for using large quantities of data to enrich its own applications.
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Industry Group Pushes for Free Open-Source Ethernet Standard for Machine Communications
As we are on the cusp of the Industrial Internet of Things and its extensive connectivity potential, one organization believes that industrial machinery and components can communicate data rapidly and reliably among themselves, system controllers, and ultimately to their human overseers via an open-source, software-based Ethernet communication standard.
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IBM SuperVessel for building open source hardware in the cloud
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IBM SuperVessel looks to encourage open source and Power architecture development
IBM HAS announced SuperVessel, a development platform designed to allow developers, students and teachers to create big data applications free of charge using the IBM OpenPower ecosystem.
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IBM unveils free cloud services for OpenPower development
IBM has lifted the lid on SuperVessel, an open access cloud service intended to let students and developers experiment with building applications for the OpenPower ecosystem based on IBM's Power architecture processors, all for no charge.
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IBM releases tool to advance cloud app development on OpenPower, OpenStack
IBM announced the launch of SuperVessel, an open access cloud service developed by the company’s China-based research outfit and designed for developing and testing cloud services based on the OpenPower architecture.
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IBM launches SuperVessel, a free OpenPOWER cloud service
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IBM sparks innovation with open source tech centre
The company has appointed 20 people in the last month, with IBM executive Rob Thomas saying to Bloomberg, "We're going to be scaling this up to hundreds of people that are just focused on Spark open source and how we evolve that for the enterprise."
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Julian Shapiro on Open Source Development, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship
An open-source developer, Shapiro works at the intersection of development and business. We sat down with him to ask some questions about Velocity.js, one of his open source contributions, and other things.
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Facebook: Your code sucks, and we don't even have to run it to tell
Facebook has released the source code to Infer, its static analysis tool, under the open source BSD license.
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Facebook open-sources Infer, a code-verification tool that squishes bugs before mobile apps ship
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Facebook’s AI Tool for Squashing Bugs Is Now Open to All
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Facebook open sources Infer: Bug tracking on a massive scale
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Facebook Infer Bug Detection Tool Is Now Open Source
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Facebook launches open source 'Infer' crash tester for iOS and Android apps
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Facebook makes its AI debug platform Infer open source
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Facebook’s head of open source gives 3 reasons why the company open-sources its technology
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The slow death of SourceForge
SourceForge has been in the news a lot lately, and not for any positive reasons. The site seems to stumble from one bad situation to the next, and some think that SourceForge is making a long, slow and ugly exit.
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"Auron" Added To Coreboot - Google's Broadwell Reference Board
Support for Auron has been added in Coreboot Git. Auron is the Google Broadwell Reference Motherboard, which in turn is based on Google's Peppy.
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Open Networking Foundation releases Atrium to advance open source SDN
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Open Networking Foundation unveils first release of Atrium SDN software distro
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Centec to Unveil GoldenGate Terabit Switch Reference Design at Open Networking Summit
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ONF Readies Atrium Open SDN Software Release
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Open Networking Foundation Releases Atrium Open SDN Software Distribution
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ONF releases Atrium open SDN software package
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Google Chrome 43 Browser Fixes The Font Magnification/Scaling Issue
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Enterprise support, fighting complexity, and more OpenStack news
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Introspecting LOKDocView, the LibreOffice widget
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GNU Screen v.4.3.0
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Kobo firmware 3.16.0 mega update (KSM, nickel patch, ssh, fonts)
As with all the previous versions, I have prepared a mega update for the Kobo firmware 3.16.0, including all my favorite patches and features. Please see details for 3.15.0, 3.13.1 and 3.12.1. As before, the following addons are included: Kobo Start Menu, koreader, coolreader, pbchess, ssh access, custom dictionaries, plus as a new treat, some side-loaded fonts. What I dropped this time is most of the kobohack part, as the libraries seem to get outdated. But I included the dropbear ssh server from the kobohack package.
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3DPrinterOS launches open source cloud client for 3D printers
Now available on Github, the cloud client already supports the majority of desktop machines and is being shared under the GNU Affero General Public License. The latest release is meant for 3D printer manufacturers, developers and tinkerers to assess the standard toolset available in 3DPrinterOS and expand existing features and functionality.
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Revving up TrueCar’s digital business with open source technology
In one of the first opportunities to get an inside look at a business built on technology and data, I recently had an enjoyable conversation with Russell Foltz-Smith, VP data platform at TrueCar. He explained to me how the US car market works from the buyer’s perspective. It turns out that in many situations, the prospective buyer experiences a lot of frustration figuring out the final buy price of a new vehicle. This is for a variety of reasons but principally, buyers are not always aware of add-ons the dealer will likely handle rather than the factory.
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This Massive, Open Source Map Makes the World More Wheelchair Friendly
It’s called Wheelmap, and it tells you the accessibility status of public places all over the world. It’s free and grades locations in a traffic light-style, red-yellow-green scale of wheelchair accessibility. Developed by German nonprofit SOZIALHELDEN e.V., it’s now celebrating five years since launch. Since 2010, users have added nearly half a million entries across the globe.
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digiKam 7.7.0 is released
After three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
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Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future Tech
The metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world.
Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility.
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