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Story | Debian Etch: Solid, Crufty, Some Assembly Required | srlinuxx | ||
Story | This months Cosmo | srlinuxx | 06/02/2005 - 4:03am | |
Story | 50 gmail invites? | srlinuxx | 1 | 06/02/2005 - 4:10am |
Story | Moooore Spam! | srlinuxx | 1 | 06/02/2005 - 4:12am |
Story | Vin Diesel going soft on us? | srlinuxx | 2 | 06/02/2005 - 4:25pm |
Poll | How's the new site? | srlinuxx | 2 | 06/02/2005 - 9:01pm |
Story | Hackers homing in on Cellular Phones | srlinuxx | 5 | 07/02/2005 - 2:20pm |
Story | M$ Claims Safer than Linux | srlinuxx | 1 | 11/02/2005 - 5:34am |
Story | This Week At the Movies: Boogeyman & Alone in the Dark & Hide and Seek | srlinuxx | 1 | 11/02/2005 - 5:41am |
Story | Forbes Wants to Know | srlinuxx | 2 | 11/02/2005 - 6:13am |
Android Leftovers
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:22:15 PM Filed under
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Android Go review—Google's scattershot attempt at a low-end Android OS
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Verizon promises Oreo update for Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge but does not deliver
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The Moto G6 should've been an Android One device
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Google Photos is rolling out a friendlier and more powerful movie editor
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Vergecast: Android Chat, Nintendo Labo, and Motorola (like a) G6
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Google is launching an Android chat service to replace SMS
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openSUSE Tumbleweed Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 4.16, KDE Plasma 5.12.4
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:17:19 PM Filed under

Quite a few snapshots have been released this week and the last one for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, bringing some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software. Among these, we can mention the recently released Linux 4.16 kernel series as the operating system is now powered by Linux kernel 4.16.2.
"The 4.16.2 Linux Kernel made ip_tunnel, ipv6, ip6_gre, ip6_tunnel and vti6 better to validate user provided tunnel names. Due to a build system failure, not all 4.16.2 binaries were built correctly; this will be resolved in the 20180417 snapshot, which will be released shortly," said Douglas DeMaio in a recent report.
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Best open source help desk software
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:14:58 PM Filed under
The help desk market is crowded and dominated by player like Zendesk, Salesforce and Spiceworks, but there are some solid open source alternatives for smaller businesses with the time and patience.
A good piece of help desk software should allow any business to log, track and respond to customer support queries across a range of platforms.
Open source solutions may not be as feature rich or fully formed out of the box, and they won't look as good as Zendesk or Salesforce, but they give great customisation options and are much more cost effective than closed source solutions.
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Linux Kernel 4.15 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Move to Linux 4.16 Now
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:10:26 PM Filed under
After a very busy cycle due to the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, which were publicly disclosed earlier this year and later discovered to put billions of devices using modern processors at risk of attacks, the Linux 4.15 kernel series was released at the of January heavily redesign against two critical hardware bugs.
Now, nearly three months and only eighteen maintenance updates later, the Linux 4.15 kernel series reached end of life and it will no longer receive support. As such, all those using a kernel from the Linux 4.15 branch on their GNU/Linux distributions are urged to upgrade to the latest Linux 4.16 kernel series as soon as possible.
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LibreOffice 6.1 Lands Mid August 2018, First Bug Hunting Session Starts April 27
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 04:40:08 PM Filed under
Work on the next big release of the widely-used open-source and cross-platform office suite for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, LibreOffice 6.1, has already begun this week with a focus on revamping the online experience and improving the Writer and Calc components.
A first bug hunting session was scheduled for the end of next week, on April 27, 2018, when developers will hack on the first alpha milestone of LibreOffice 6.1, which should be available to download for all supported platforms a few days before the event. During the bug hunting session, devs will try to fix as many bugs as possible.
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This Chart Shows How The Radeon RX 580 vs. GeForce GTX 1060 Now Compete Under Linux
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 04:36:35 PM Filed under
It was just last year that open-source RadeonSI/RADV developers were trying to get the Radeon RX 580 "Polaris" GPU to be competitive with the GeForce GTX 1060 as it is under Windows given each GPU's capabilities. We've seen the RX 580 and GTX 1060 dancing under Linux the past few months and yesterday's 20-way GPU comparison with Rise of the Tomb Raider was quite significant -- perhaps most surprising being how well the RX 580 performed. Heck, just one or two years ago it was an accomplishment seeing any official Radeon driver support at-launch for new Linux game releases. So here are some extensive tests looking closer at the GTX 1060 vs. RX 580 battle in this latest Vulkan-powered Linux game port.
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Linux 4.9.95
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 04:26:29 PM Filed under
I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.95 kernel.
All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...
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Openwashing Apple and Microsoft Proprietary Frameworks/Services
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 04:24:50 PM Filed under
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Apple unleashes FoundationDB as an open source project [Ed: Apple openwashing its own, self-controlled DB]
Apple has open-sourced FoundationDB, a distributed ACID-compliant NoSQL datastore, three years after acquiring the company that developed the technology.
At the time, developers who used the database voiced resentment that Apple had taken a useful tool off the market and left companies using the software without support.
For Apple, that's water under the bridge. In a post to the FoundationDB project's newborn blog, the fruit-themed computer maker said, "We believe FoundationDB can become the foundation of the next generation of distributed databases."
To make that happen, Apple is counting on community contributions and support.
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Apple open-sources its FoundationDB database technology
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Apple finally open-sources FoundationDB
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Apple Open-Sources NoSQL Database FoundationDB
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Apple open-sources FoundationDB database to build open development community
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Microsoft Brings Linux Driven IoT Security to Azure [Ed: Way to sell Windows and Visual Studio while carrying out traffic intercepts/surveillance]
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Windows 10: Microsoft to boost Linux app security with Windows Defender firewall [Ed: At ZDNet today the lemmings keep googlebombing Linux for Microsoft, selling proprietary malware while calling it or dressing it up as "Linux"]
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Viperr Linux Keeps Crunchbang Alive with a Fedora Flair
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 04:24:40 PM Filed under

Do you remember Crunchbang Linux? Crunchbang (often referred to as #!) was a fan-favorite, Debian-based distribution that focused on using a bare minimum of resources. This was accomplished by discarding the standard desktop environment and using a modified version of the Openbox Window Manager. For some, Crunchbang was a lightweight Linux dream come true. It was lightning fast, easy to use, and hearkened back to the Linux of old.
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Openwashing Cars
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 04:23:21 PM Filed under
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Open source: sharing patents to speed up innovation
Adjusting to climate change will require a lot of good ideas. The need to develop more sustainable forms of industry in the decades ahead demands vision and ingenuity. Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, believes he has found a way for companies to share their breakthroughs and speed up innovation.
Fond of a bold gesture, the carmaker and space privateer announced back in 2014 that Tesla would make its patents on electric vehicle technology freely available, dropping the threat of lawsuits over its intellectual property (IP). Mr Musk argued the removal of pesky legal barriers would help “accelerate the advent of sustainable transport”.
The stunning move has already had an impact. Toyota has followed Tesla by sharing more than 5,600 patents related to hydrogen fuel cell cars, making them available royalty free. Ford has also decided to allow competitors to use its own electric vehicle-related patents, provided they are willing to pay for licences.Could Telsa’s audacious strategy signal a more open approach to patents among leading innovators? And if more major companies should decide to adopt a carefree attitude to IP, what are the risks involved?
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Autonomous car platform Apollo doesn't want you to reinvent the wheel
Open source technologies are solving many of our most pressing problems, in part because the open source model of cooperation, collaboration, and almost endless iteration creates an environment where problems are more readily solved. As the adage goes, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
However, self-driving vehicle technology is one rapidly growing area that hasn't been greatly influenced by open source. Most of today's autonomous vehicles, including those from Volkswagen, BMW, Volvo, Uber, and Google, ride on proprietary technology, as companies seek to be the first to deliver a successful solution. That changed recently with the launch of Baidu's Apollo.
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today's leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:57:25 AM Filed under
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KDE Applications 18.04 Brings Dolphin Improvements, JuK Wayland Support
The KDE community has announced the release today of KDE Applications 18.04 as the first major update to the open-source KDE application set for 2018.
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Plasma Startup
Startup is one of the rougher aspects of the Plasma experience and therefore something we’ve put some time into fixing
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The most important part of any speed work is correctly analysing it.
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Announcing Virtlyst – a web interface to manage virtual machines
Virtlyst is a web tool that allows you to manage virtual machines.
In essence it’s a clone of webvirtmgr, but using Cutelyst as the backend, the reasoning behind this was that my father in law needs a server for his ASP app on a Win2k server, the server has only 4 GiB of RAM and after a week running webvirtmgr it was eating 300 MiB close to 10% of all available RAM. To get a VNC or SPICE tunnel it spawns websockify which on each new instance around 20 MiB of RAM get’s used.
I found this unacceptable, a tool that is only going to be used once in a while, like if the win2k freezes or goes BSOD, CPU usage while higher didn’t play a role on this.
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OPNFV: driving the network towards open source "Tip to Top"
Heather provides an update on the current status of OPNFV. How is its work continuing and how is it pursuing the overall mission? Heather says much of its work is really ‘devops’ and it's working on a continuous integration basis with the other open source bodies. That work continues as more bodies join forces with the Linux Foundation. Most recently OPNFV has signed a partnership agreement with the open compute project. Heather says the overall OPNFV objective is to work towards open source ‘Tip to top’ and all built by the community in ‘open source’. “When we started, OPNFV was very VM oriented (virtual machine), but now the open source movement is looking more to cloud native and containerisation as the way forward,” she says. The body has also launched a C-RAN project to ensure that NFV will be ready to underpin 5G networks as they emerge.
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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S11E07 – Seven Years in Tibet - Ubuntu Podcast
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Failure to automate: 3 ways it costs you
When I ask IT leaders what they see as the biggest benefit to automation, “savings” is often the first word out of their mouths. They’re under pressure to make their departments run as efficiently as possible and see automation as a way to help them do so.
Cost savings are certainly a benefit of automation, but I’d argue that IT leaders who pursue automation for cost-savings alone are missing the bigger picture of how it can help their businesses.
The true value of automation doesn’t lie in bringing down expenses, but rather in enabling IT teams to scale their businesses.
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Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 Launches With Secured Kubernetes
After months of development effort, Kubernetes is now fully supported in the stable release of the Docker Enterprise Edition.
Docker Inc. officially announced Docker EE 2.0 on April 17, adding features that have been in development in the Docker Community Edition (CE) as well as enhanced enterprise grade capabilities. Docker first announced its intention to support Kubernetes in October 2017. With Docker EE 2.0, Docker is providing a secured configuration of Kubernetes for container orchestration.
"Docker EE 2.0 brings the promise of choice," Docker Chief Operating Officer Scott Johnston told eWEEK. "We have been investing heavily in security in the last few years, and you'll see that in our Kubernetes integration as well."
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today's howtos
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:47:47 AM Filed under
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The simplest way to make a LiveUSB from within GNU/Linux
I change distributions like people change socks, because I’m stubborn and refuse to test things through virtual machines and would rather run it pure and dry off my hardware.
I have this one unbranded 8gb USB stick that I literally bought (a handful of others of, all lost or dead) out of the back of a van, that I have continued to use for my LiveUSB’s for about five or six years now, and its still kicking.
Thankfully, doing this change from distro to distro is incredibly simple, with the use of just a couple quick terminal commands. This will work from within any distribution.
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A quick look at the git object store
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Sidecar container for Python exceptions
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logstash 5.6.9 logstash-input-udp 3.3.1 br0ken
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How to Install Elastic Jamroom on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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More L337 Translations
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Detect a UEFI partition
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LMMS Guide Part 2: Tempo, Time Signatures, Beats and Bass Lines
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Weekly Command: going over Git history with tig
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Install Apache Hadoop on Ubuntu 17.10!
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Gnome: Save And Restore Running Applications And Window Positions With Window Session Manager
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Backup And Restore Application Settings On Newly Installed Linux System
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UEFI booting and RAID1
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How to Install Ubuntu 18.04 Dual Boot with Windows 10
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How to Synchronize Time with NTP in Linux
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Debian Milestones and Diversity Update
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:45:02 AM Filed under
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15.010958904109589041
And yes! On April 15, I passed the 15-year-mark as a Debian Developer.
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10 years + 1 day
yesterday 10 years ago I became a Debian Developer.
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Diversity Update
Which brings us to a panel for the upcoming Debconf in Taiwan. There is a suggestion to have a Gender Forum at the Openday. I'm still not completely sure what it should cover or what is expected for it and I guess it's still open for suggestions. There will be a plan, let's see to make it diverse and great!
I won't promise to send the next update sooner, but I'll try to get back into it. Right now I'm also working on a (German language) submission for a non-binary YouTube project and it would be great to see that thing lift off. I'll be more verbose on that front.
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Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Beta 2, Replacement for gksu
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:43:53 AM Filed under
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The Unique Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Beta 2
It is the most unique among the Official Flavors in the 18.04. It's the only to bring Chromium browser, and it gives you the unique Budgie Desktop experiences. It is really a good place for everyone who wants new, distinct desktop experience with modern version of software and broad space to explore. And ultimately it is still available for 32 bit, which has been abandoned by Ubuntu original. We will wait until the planned release on April 26.
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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Frederik
My name is Frederik, I live in Germany and I am working as a java software developer in my daily job.
I am using Ubuntu since 5 years and quickly started to report bugs and issues when they jumped into my face. Apart from that, I like good music, and beautiful software. I also make my own music in my free time.
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gksu Removed From Ubuntu, Here's The Recommended Replacement
gksu is used to allow elevating your permissions when running graphical applications, for example in case you want to run a graphical text editor as root to edit a system file, or to be able to remove or add a file to a system folder.
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Devices: Aaeon, Tizen and Android
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:42:17 AM Filed under

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3.5-inch Apollo Lake SBC goes all out on USB and serial links
Aaeon’s 3.5-inch “GENE-APL7” SBC provides an Intel Apollo Lake SoC, SATA III, mini-PCIe, VGA, up to 2x LVDS, 2x GbE, 8x USB, and up to 12x serial interfaces.
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Samsung Z4 has a new software / firmware update Z400FODDOBRB1
It has been some time since we have seen a software/firmware update for any of the Tizen smartphones, but it’s good to see that the Samsung Z4 get an update, albeit a small one. The latest update is version Z400FODDOBRB1 and still retains the Tizen platform version as 3.0.0.1. The update measures in at only 8.8MB and the full changelog can be found below.
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Google Reportedly Working on Dual Boot Support for Chrome OS on Chromebooks
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OSS Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:40:59 AM Filed under
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Open source crucial to Orange as it prepares for ONAP deployment
Orange has long played a key part in the testing and adoption of ONAP, dating back to when its ECOMP predecessor was created by AT&T as a platform for managing a software-defined network. The move to open source and its development as the ONAP project has made the platform a key component of the new telco open networking movement. But why should other telcos look to ONAP as they embark on their network transformation strategies, and how does it help enable the automated network that will lead to new business opportunities?
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Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry: Deflation
At some point, the rules relaxed on new projects addition with the Big Tent initiative, allowing us to rename ourselves to the OpenStack Telemetry team and splitting Ceilometer into several subprojects: Aodh (alarm evaluation functionality) and Panko (events storage). Gnocchi was able to join the OpenStack Telemetry party for its first anniversary.
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Dev-tools in 2018
This is a bit late (how is it the middle of April already?!), but the dev-tools team has lots of exciting plans for 2018 and I want to talk about them!
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We're creating two new teams - Rustdoc, and IDEs and editors - and going to work more closely with the Cargo team. We're also spinning up a bunch of working groups. These are more focused, less formal teams, they are dedicated to a single tool or task, rather than to strategy and decision making. Primarily they are a way to let people working on a tool work more effectively. The dev-tools team will continue to coordinate work and keep track of the big picture.
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Nonny de la Peña & the Power of Immersive Storytelling
This week, we’re highlighting VR’s groundbreaking potential to take audiences inside stories with a four part video series. There aren’t many examples of creators doing that more effectively and powerfully than Nonny de la Peña.
Nonny de la Peña is a former correspondent for Newsweek, the New York Times and other major outlets. For more than a decade now, de la Peña has been focused on merging her passion for documentary filmmaking with a deep-seeded expertise in VR. She essentially invented the field of “immersive journalism” through her company, Emblematic Group.
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Collabora Online 3.2 Brings More Powerful Features to LibreOffice in the Cloud
Michael Meeks of the Collabora Productivity has the pleasure of informing Softpedia today on the availability of Collabora Online 3.2, the second point release of the Collabora Online 3 series that promises yet another layer of new features and improvements to the enterprise-ready, cloud-based office suite.
Based on the LibreOffice 6.1 open-source office suite, Collabora Online 3.2 introduces support for creating and inserting charts into Writer and Impress documents, and the ability to validate data in Calc, which might come in handy for engineers who want to do a final assembly inspection on their tablets, as well as to collaborate with their colleagues to ensure all tests are passed by a complete product.
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Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name
Oracle, claims developer Zhongmin Steven Guo, has demanded that Apple remove an app he created because it contains the trademarked term "JavaScript."
The app in question, published by Guo's Tyanya Software LLC – which appears to be more a liability shield than a thriving software business – is titled "HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, Snippet Editor."
The name, Guo explains in a Hacker News comment, was chosen in an effort to "game the App Store ranking by adding all the keywords to the app name."
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FoundationDB is Open Source
Starting today, FoundationDB starts its next chapter as an open source project!
FoundationDB is a distributed datastore, designed from the ground up to be deployed on clusters of commodity hardware. These clusters scale well as you add machines, automatically heal from hardware failures, and have a simple API. The key-value store supports fully global, cross-row ACID transactions. That's the highest level of data consistency possible. What does this mean for you? Strong consistency makes your application code simpler, your data models more efficient, and your failure modes less surprising.
The great thing is that FoundationDB is already well-established — it's actively developed and has years of production use. We intend to drive FoundationDB forward as a community project and we welcome your participation.
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Apple Open Sources FoundationDB, Releases Code On GitHub
Back in 2015, Apple bought FoundationDB, a NoSQL database company. It created a distributed database of the same name designed to deal with large masses of structured data across clusters of servers. In a recent development, Apple has shared the FoundationDB core and turned it into an open source project.
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Microsoft offers limited-time 30 percent discount on SQL Server on Linux [Ed: Microsoft is googlebombing Linux again and as I predicted it would be done only to help Microsoft sell malicious proprietary software. Mary Jo Foley is like Microsoft marketing at CBS. In this case she promotes proprietary software.
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Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup time: April 20th starting at 12:00 p.m. EDT/16:00 UTC
Help improve the Free Software Directory by adding new entries and updating existing ones. Every Friday we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org.
Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.
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Researchers deliver open-source simulator for cyber physical systems
Cyber physical systems (CPS) are attracting more attention than ever thanks to the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its combination with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and the cloud. These interacting networks of physical and computational components will provide the foundation of critical infrastructure, form the basis of ‘smart’ services, and improve the quality of life in areas ranging from energy and environment to transportation and healthcare.
CPS technologies are already transforming the way people interact with engineered systems in the ‘real’ or ‘physical’ world, just as the internet has transformed the way people interact with information. Yet, due to their complexity, the developers of CPS face a major problem: the lack of simulation tools and models for their design and analysis.
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Creators face an evolving challenge protecting IP
The GNU General Public License, under which the operating system Linux and much open-source software is shared, is another example of copyleft.
Open-source software, where programs are worked on together by loosely connected developer communities rather than traditional software houses, show one way IP can be shared without stifling innovation. Linux, the mobile operating system Android and the database system MySQL have all achieved widespread adoption, and are continually innovating despite, or perhaps because of, being open source.
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Emerging Tech Speaker Series Talk with Rian Wanstreet
This is an opportunity for the open source community, as alternative technologies and platforms are being developed which provide farmers the ability to farm outside of walled gardens. From open source seed initiatives, to open farm technologies, to data platform cooperatives, there is a small, but growing, collaborative movement that recognizes that farmers are at a critical moment: they can help to establish tools that advance freedom, or accept machines that foster dependencies.
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Williamson Schools to develop open source social studies curriculum
The open source science curriculum saved the district about $3.3 million. An open source social studies curriculum may post similar savings, with estimates at about $3.5-4 million, Gaddis said.
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Large Open-Source Data Set Released to Help Train Algorithms Spot Malware
For the first time, a large dataset has been released by a security firm to help AI research and training of machine learning models that statically detect malware. The data set released by cybersecurity firm Endgame is called EMBER is a collection of more than a million representations of benign and malicious Windows-portable executable files. Hyrum Anderson, Endgame's technical director of data science who worked on EMBER, says: "This dataset fills a void in the information security machine learning community: a benign/malicious dataset that is large, open and general enough to cover several interesting use cases. ... [We] hope that the dataset, code and baseline model provided by EMBER will help invigorate machine learning research for malware detection, in much the same way that benchmark datasets have advanced computer vision research."
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:38:22 AM Filed under
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3-D Printing and Open Hardware
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:35:00 AM Filed under

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Open Source Innovation Could Put a 3D Bioprinter in Your Living Room
3D bioprinting traditionally requires high-level expertise, proprietary technology and a five-figure investment. A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University setout to change all that. In a paper published earlier this month in HardwareX, the group released the design of a fully functional 3D bioprinter it built by altering a widely available desktop 3D machine. The team’s innovation could be a game changer in terms of the overall accessibility of bioprinting.
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3D Printing the SynDaver Open-Source Healthcare Mannequin
As desktop 3D printers become more robust, reliable, and feature-rich, we are seeing a definite shift in professional use-cases from prototyping to producing final products.
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Unlock & Talk: Open Source Bootloader & Modem
Since [Tom Nardi] introduced Hackaday readers to postmarketOS, the team has made progress on compiling a standard bootloader for MediaTek System-on-Chip (SoC) processors. Many Android phones use the MIT-licensed Little Kernel as the base of their bootloader and then apply custom closed-source modifications. [McBitter] has worked to eliminate this closed-source code by porting Little Kernel to the MT6735P used in the Coolpad Modena 2. By understanding the modifications MediaTek used for this particular SoC, the postmarketOS team hopes to use their modified, open-source Little Kernel bootloader with other MediaTek-based devices. While progress has been difficult and attempts at using emulators to probe bootloader memory have failed, [McBitter] was able to decode the DRAM configuration settings by searching for a leaked portion of the configuration strings. Now that he can set up the DRAM, there should be few barriers to running Little Kernel.
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Mozilla's large repository of voice data will shape the future of machine learning
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:32:53 AM Filed under
Mozilla's open source project, Common Voice, is well on its way to becoming the world’s largest repository of human voice data to be used for machine learning. Common Voice recently made its way into Black Duck's annual Open Source Rookies of the Year list.
What’s special about Common Voice is in the details. Every language is spoken differently—with a wide variation of speech patterns, accents, and intonations—throughout the world. A smart speech recognition engine—that has applications over many Internet of Things (IoT) devices and digital accessibility—can recognize speech samples from a diverse group of people only when it learns from a large number of samples. A speech database of recorded speech from people across geographies helps make this ambitious machine learning possible.
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Red Hat News
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of April 2018 02:08:39 AM Filed under
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Introducing the Vault Operator
Today, Red Hat is pleased to announce a new open source project, the Vault Operator. In keeping with earlier projects, including the etcd Operator and the Prometheus Operator, the Vault Operator aims to make it easier to install, manage, and maintain instances of Vault – a tool designed for storing, managing, and controlling access to secrets, such as tokens, passwords, certificates, and API keys – on Kubernetes clusters.
We are supporters of Vault, for important reasons. Authentication is fundamental to modern applications. As application design shifts from monolithic to distributed architectures, the various components of an application must communicate with each other over a network in ways that are designed to be trusted and secure. This typically requires authentication, which in turn requires credentials, or secrets. The problem is that there is no de facto way to centrally locate and manage these secrets.
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Expanding architectural choices to better arm Red Hat Enterprise Linux developers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux continues to deliver the best possible experience for enterprise system administrators and developers, as well as provide a solid foundation for moving workloads into both public and private clouds. One of the ways to enable such ubiquity is Red Hat’s multi-architecture initiative, which focuses on bringing Red Hat’s software portfolio to different hardware architectures.
Last week, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 went live. It brought forward several improvements relevant to developers and system administrators such as advanced GUI system management via the Cockpit console, which should help new Linux administrators, developers, and Windows users to perform expert tasks without having to get into the command line.
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Altran and Red Hat latest to join 5TONIC 5G Innovation Lab
Two more companies have joined the specialist 5G mobile research and innovation laboratory in Spain called 5TONIC. Altran and Red Hat are the latest companies to become members of the 5TONIC initiative joining existing companies such as Telefónica, Intel and Ericsson.
Hosted by its co-founder - research organisation IMDEA Networks Institute - on its campus in Madrid, and chaired by Telefónica, the 5TONIC laboratory has been designed to provide a vehicle for member companies to "co-create" and test breakthrough 5G services and solutions - focused on collaborating with other industries.
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Surescripts speeds DevOps work with Red Hat Ansible Automation
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An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way–Part II
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Moving Production Workloads to OpenShift Online
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Red Hat Executive Briefing Center named a World Class Center by the Association of Briefing Program Managers
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How to engage with Technical Account Managers at Red Hat Summit 2018
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Taking a Look at the Data Behind Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)
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