By Paul Rubens Last month, BlackBerry announced that it was quitting the phone-making business, but the BlackBerry name will live on. That’s because the company has entered into a licensing agreement with …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: October 2016
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu versus Linux Mint: Which one is better?
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•By Jim Lynch Ubuntu versus Linux Mint Ubuntu and Linux Mint are two of the best known desktop distributions around. Both are extremely popular with Linux users, but which one is better? Since each …read more Source:: OpenSource
Project for porting C to Rust gains Mozilla’s backing
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The central appeal of Mozilla’s Rust language is that it provides a safe platform for fast systems programming — as fast as C but with safety features that C doesn’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
4 big changes coming soon to Firefox
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mozilla’s ambitions are hard to ignore. An impressive new programming language, Rust, has emerged as a product of the group’s efforts to create Servo, a web rendering engine designed …read more Source:: OpenSource
A better name for DevOps: ‘continuous improvement’
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•Conversation-driven development explodes across the enterprise, blurring everybody’s roles, and spurring cultural change. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Spark picks up machine learning, GPU acceleration
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Databricks, corporate provider of support and development for the Apache Spark in-memory big data project, has spiced up its cloud-based implementation of Apache Spark with two additions that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Dart’s not dead! Google retools JavaScript challenger
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Google’s Dart language hasn’t become the JavaScript-killer it was intended to be. That said, Google still uses it a great deal internally for web-app related projects, such as AdSense. Now, Google …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cython speedups borrow from Python playbook
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•By Serdar Yegulalp What’s faster than Python? C. What’s also far less convenient than Python? C. But for people who want the convenience of Python and the speed of C, the Cython …read more Source:: OpenSource
Forrester: OpenStack, AWS are today’s cloud ‘safe bets’
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Forrester Research’s newly issued report, “The State Of Cloud Platform Standard, Q4 2016,” regards OpenStack and AWS as the de facto standards for compute and storage in the cloud. That by …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Will Aspyr release Civilization VI for Linux?
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•By Jim Lynch Civilization VI for Linux Civilization VI has been released for Windows and MacOS, but there is still no Linux version available. Linux gamers should not give up hope, however. A recent …read more Source:: OpenSource