By Serdar Yegulalp The good news: IT hiring is still strong. The bad news: It’s shaping up to be a second straight year of decline. In its monthly analysis of Buearu of Labor Statistics …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: May 2016
IDG Contributor Network: Linux Mint 18 won’t include multimedia codecs
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•By Jim Lynch Linux Mint 18 won’t include multimedia codecs Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop distributions around. And one of its most appealing features was that it shipped with multimedia …read more Source:: OpenSource
Swift for Windows arrives at last, but as an unofficial port
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•By Serdar Yegulalp An open source effort to port Apple’s Swift language to Windows last week released new versions of both source code and binaries. Swift was originally developed by Apple as a replacement …read more Source:: OpenSource
Free as can be: gNewSense is true GNU Linux
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Free Software Foundation’s Linux distribution gNewSense is finally out in its fourth revision after a two-plus-year development cycle. The FSF is best known for its unrelenting advocacy for …read more Source:: OpenSource
What does the future of the Apache Software Foundation hold?
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•By Thor Olavsrud The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) will hold its second annual Apache: Big Data North America conference in Vancouver, BC, starting Monday next week. Alongside keynotes from companies like Netflix and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open-source really could help get you a job, study finds
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•By Jon Gold Experience in the open-source world is a valuable asset for technology job-seekers, and it’s getting more so over time, according to the latest Open-Source Jobs Report, which was <a class="colorbox" href="http://go.linuxfoundation.org/download-2016-open-source-jobs-report" …read more Source:: OpenSource
NativeScript warms up to AngularJS for mobile dev
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•By Paul Krill NativeScript, Telerik’s open source platform for building native cross-platform mobile applications, has moved to a 2.0 release this week, highlighted by integration with the planned AngularJS 2 Web development framework. <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource
HBase: The database big data left behind
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•By Matt Asay A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in big data. The primary pairing for Hadoop, HBase saw adoption skyrocket, but it has since …read more Source:: OpenSource
Kubernetes-powered PaaS focuses on devops
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The creator of Kel, a devops-focused PaaS for Web applications has released an open source edition of its platform. Kel is based on the container-cluster management system Kubernetes …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brazilian organizations still face challenges in cloud adoption
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•Lack of time, legacy systems and infrastructure issues are some of the blockers, says research …read more Source:: it-priorities