By Jim Lynch Changes and the year of the Linux desktop The year of the Linux desktop has long been the unicorn of the open source movement. People have looked for it for quite …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: October 2016
With OpenStack users, dev and test are king
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•By Serdar Yegulalp What’s OpenStack’s killer app? Users say it’s dev and test. According to the latest OpenStack User Survey, most deployments of the open source cloud infrastructure project are on-premises private clouds for …read more Source:: OpenSource
Keep your friends close, and citizen developers closer
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•Low-code development is all the rage, but knowledgeable IT pros need to be ready to step in when citizen developers hit the wall. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Microsoft’s CoreRT turns C# into cross-platform C++
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft is slowly changing the .Net toolchain to allow ahead-of-time compilation for applications on platforms where there is no .Net toolchain. The open source CoreRT project does away with …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat finds virtualization vital for enterprise despite container competition
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•Virtualization may not be as hot as containers, but virtualization is still picking up steam. …read more Source:: it-priorities
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released
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•By Jim Lynch Ubuntu 16.10 released Ubuntu has long been one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions, and now version 16.10 has been released. You can download it from the official Ubuntu …read more Source:: OpenSource
GPG Sync simplifies encryption key management
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid In all the discussion about using encryption, a critical point keeps getting lost: It’s difficult to work with, and it’s even harder to deploy it at scale. Nowhere is the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft open-sources P language for IoT
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•By Paul Krill Microsoft’s P language, for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT (internet of things), has been open-sourced. Geared for embedded systems, device drivers, and distributed services, P is a domain-specific language …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft is phasing out its LightSwitch business-app development tool
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•Microsoft’s LightSwitch business-app development tool is on its way out, with PowerApps as its recommended replacement. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Ubuntu 16.10 ups cloud ante with Kubernetes, OpenStack
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•By Serdar Yegulalp With Ubuntu 16.10, Canonical sharpens its focus on the cloud. Canonical has previously set up Ubuntu as a cloud building block for deploying technologies like OpenStack quickly, predictably, and consistently. The …read more Source:: OpenSource