By Jim Lynch Does Microsoft really love Linux? Microsoft has always had an…uneasy…relationship with Linux, to say the least. But a writer at The Verge is convinced that Microsoft does indeed love Linux these …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: September 2016
SAS develops analytics training business in Brazil
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•Analytics firm gets increased demand for its data science training program. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Hands-on: Python 3.6’s speed boost matters
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•By Serdar Yegulalp With the first beta release of Python 3.6 out in the wild, most of the discussion has been about additions like a new string-literal format or the “secrets” module …read more Source:: OpenSource
New project runs Arch Linux on Windows
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•By Serdar Yegulalp “Experimental” is a great adjective for Microsoft’s WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Besides being Microsoft’s attempt to lure Linux devs into making themselves comfortable in Windows, it also provides a …read more Source:: OpenSource
GitHub launches built-in project management boards for its code repos
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•By Blair Hanley Frank GitHub, the popular site for managing software development projects, is now also a lightweight project management service, thanks to a new feature. The company launched Projects on Wednesday, which …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apple Swift 3: Forward-looking, but not backward-compatible
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•By Serdar Yegulalp “Move fast and break things,” or so goes the saying. Apple’s doing both with the 3.0 version version of its Swift programming language. Swift, developed by Apple to replace Objective-C, is …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brazilian PC market returns to growth
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•Better exchange rates enable manufacturers to improve pricing and boost consumer demand, says IDC. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Microsoft readies Azure Service Fabric on Linux, inches toward open source
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft edged another step toward making Azure Service Fabric open source. The company released not the long-awaited Service Fabric source code but the next best thing: an official, supported release …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Vim 8.0 released
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•By Jim Lynch Vim 8.0 released Vim has long been an important tool for programmers and anyone else who needs a highly configurable text editor in Linux. And now version 8.0 of Vim has …read more Source:: OpenSource
MySQL 8.0: More Unicode, less hassle
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The development team for the open source MySQL database provided users yesterday with a peek into the future — no TARDIS required. In a blog post announcing MySQL 8.0.0’s …read more Source:: OpenSource