Leftovers: OSS
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Recent Discussion on Unfairness in FLOSS
I include above some pieces that, on the surface, are adjacent to this conversation rather than in it: on open data, on emotional burnout, on GitHub's tooling, on license compliance, on setting expectations about unmaintained projects. But I see these frustrations as -- like the injustice driving volunteer maintainers to step away -- coming from a fundamental perception of unfairness. Free and open source software makers will notice if there is no measure of reciprocity in an environment that pays lip service to gift culture.
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Project Calico Now Fully Supports Kubernetes
On Friday, Project Calico, an open source virtual networking stack, released its 1.0 version plugin for Kubernetes – a signal that the plugin been well-tested and ready for production, according to Andy Randall, the project’s lead evangelist.
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Web Push Arrives in Firefox 44
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Firefox 44 Debuts With Improved Security
Mozilla adds push notification support and provides 11 security advisories with its latest open-source browser release.
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Cloudera's New Director Release Focuses on Simplifying Hadoop for Enterprises
Cloudera has been focused on simplifying deployment and adoption of Hadoop for years now, and now it is out with its latest version of Cloudera Director 2.0, which it bills as "the easiest way to deploy and manage enterprise Hadoop in cloud environments."
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Lean Wordpress: A guide to optimizing your CMS
The first thing to do with plugins on an existing WordPress site is to deactivate any that aren’t being used. Active plugins load resources (and make HTTP requests), adding overhead to every page that loads. If a plugin is not being used, shut it down.
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Walmart Doesn’t Want You to Get Locked Into Amazon’s Cloud
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Key charities that advance software freedom are worthy of your urgent support
Conservancy and the FSF show in concrete terms that two charities can work together to increase their impact. Last year, our organizations collaborated on many projects, such as the proposed FCC rule changes for wireless devices, jointly handled a GPL enforcement action against Canonical, Ltd., published the principles of community-oriented GPL enforcement, and continued our collaboration on copyleft.org. We're already discussing lots of ways that the two organizations can work together in 2016!
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Stop Driving Laser Cutters with 3D Printer Software!
Laser cutters are fantastic pieces of equipment, and thanks to open-source improvements in recent years, are getting even cheaper to make. It can be as simple as throwing a high-powered laser diode onto the head of your 3D printer! With so many home-brew designs out there, wouldn’t it be nice if there was some all-encompassing open-source, laser-cutter controller software? Well, as it turns out — there is, and it’s called LaserWeb.
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Laser cut microwells could lower the cost of cancer research
The fabrication technique, which was developed with open-source software and hardware, could slash 90% of the cost of mass-producing metastatic microtumours and therapeutic microtissues for screening and research.
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Changes Start Heading Into AMDGPU For LLVM 3.9
A number of AMDGPU LLVM back-end changes have been hitting the mainline LLVM SVN/Git code-base in recent days.
However, all of this activity won't be found in next month's LLVM 3.8 release since it's already branched but rather is new work going into LLVM 3.9. This latest LLVM 3.9 code drops compatibility for the Mesa 11.0 series, adds some new intrinsics, some new tests were added, and more.
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LLVM Drops Its Autoconf Build System
LLVM/Clang is the latest high-profile project to abandon its Autoconf build system.
As of today in the latest LLVM development code it removes the Autoconf build system for LLVM and Clang.
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