By Paul Krill It’s late June, so it must be time again for the Eclipse Foundation’s annual “release train” of open source software development technologies. JavaScript, PHP, and Docker are getting special attention …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: June 2016
Severe flaws in widely used open source library put many projects at risk
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•By Lucian Constantin In a world where any new software project is built in large part on existing third-party code, finding and patching vulnerabilities in popular open-source libraries is vital to creating reliable …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft Azure makes Docker a first-class citizen
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The most striking thing about Microsoft’s latest spate of announcements about containers and Azure is not how visible Microsoft is trying to be to developers, but how invisible. In the <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: How well do Android apps run on Chromebooks?
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•By Jim Lynch How well do Android apps run on a Chromebook? Google has been working hard to bring Android apps to ChromeOS, and now that work is starting to pay off. A writer …read more Source:: OpenSource
Read my lips, says Docker: Containers aren’t VMs
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Repeat after me: Containers are not “lightweight VMs.” Nor are they meant to replace VMs. Not now, and not anytime soon, either. That’s one of the key messages — sometimes subtly …read more Source:: OpenSource
The press will believe anything about open source
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•By Matt Asay It’s standard operating procedure for corporate PR departments to regularly tell the world that X or Y feature will solve world hunger, establish world peace, etc. It’s less standard for …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Can SourceForge regain credibility with Linux users and developers?
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•By Jim Lynch Can SourceForge regain its credibility? SourceForge alienated many Linux users and developers a while back when the site was plagued with malware ads and other problems. Now SourceForge has a new …read more Source:: OpenSource
Docker ‘swarm mode’ aims to steal Kubernetes’ thunder
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Welcome to the latest version of Docker, the software containerization tool that’s taken IT by storm — or maybe, in the case of version 1.12, by swarm. Swarm mode, the newest …read more Source:: OpenSource
7 tools for cutting through software legalese
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Does anyone, aside from the lawyers out there, enjoy wading through the minutiae of software licenses, be they EULAs (end-user licensing agreements) or open source licenses? Nope. We just want …read more Source:: OpenSource
How online communities are faring in 2016
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•Executive leaders are involved more than ever before in using online communities to solve important business issues ranging from improved customer care to better workplace collaboration. But budgets are not …read more Source:: it-priorities