By Serdar Yegulalp Flatpak, sponsored by the Freedesktop project and engineered mainly by Alex Larsson at Red Hat, is a single application package containing everything needed to run an app across …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: June 2016
We have the big data tools — let’s learn to use them
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•By Andrew C. Oliver Recently, at the Apache Spark Maker Community event in San Francisco, I was on a panel and feeling a bit salty. It seems many people have prematurely declared …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: How to run Android on an iPhone
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•By Jim Lynch How to run Android on an iPhone Android has long battled Apple’s iPhone in the smartphone marketplace, but have you ever wondered what it might be like to run Android on …read more Source:: OpenSource
The next steps for Spark in the cloud
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Over the course of the last couple of years, Apache Spark has enjoyed explosive growth in both usage and mind share. These days, any self-respecting big data offering is obliged …read more Source:: OpenSource
Unfollowing social media: You’re falling out of love with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter
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•Social-media apps that used to receive most attention are now getting significantly less screen time. …read more Source:: it-priorities
MapR shows off enterprise-grade Spark distribution
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•By Thor Olavsrud At Spark Summit in San Francisco, Calif., this week, Hadoop distribution vendor MapR Technologies announced a new enterprise-grade <a class="colorbox" href="http://spark.apache.org/" …read more Source:: OpenSource
The Apache Foundation’s incredible rise
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•By Matt Asay The Apache Software Foundation recently released its 28-page annual report for its 2015-2016 year, but here’s the TL;DR in one word: amazing. What started as a simple HTTP server …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brazilian banks see drop in IT spending
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•There was a 9.5 percent decrease in resources going towards tech in relation to last year …read more Source:: it-priorities
IDG Contributor Network: How Linux Mint saved the day for an Ubuntu 16.04 user
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•By Jim Lynch How Linux Mint saved the day for an Ubuntu 16.04 user Ubuntu 16.04 has been out for a while, and it hasn’t been smooth sailing for everyone who has tried to …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux features that you can’t live without?
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•By Jim Lynch Linux features that you can’t live without? Linux offers many great features, but some are more useful than others, depending on the user. One Linux redditor recently asked his fellow users …read more Source:: OpenSource