By Jim Lynch How did you get started with Linux? Linux has been around for quite a long time now, and there are always new folks finding their way to it. One Linux redditor …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: November 2016
Microsoft won’t provide extended support for Office 2007 products beyond October 2017 deadline
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•IT administrators take note: Microsoft’s Office 2007/Exchange 2007 wave of client and server software is set to exit support in October 2017, and extended custom support agreements are going away. …read more Source:: it-priorities
IDG Contributor Network: 2016 MacBook Pro can’t run Linux
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•By Jim Lynch The 2016 MacBook Pro and Linux There is a subset of the Linux community that likes running Linux on Apple hardware. Strange as it may sound, these users enjoy the virtues …read more Source:: OpenSource
Will enterprises all soon be relying on the same few hyperscale data centers?
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•Cisco projects that a mere 485 data centers will be handling close to half of the world’s workloads and data in a few years. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Linux Foundation doubles down on support for tamper-free software
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is renewing its financial support for a project that ensures binaries produced from open source software projects are free of tampering. The …read more Source:: OpenSource
Qlik launches Brazil operations
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•Business intelligence vendor sees growth in the country, eyes LatAm expansion. …read more Source:: it-priorities
8 projects that give WebAssembly a lift
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•By Serdar Yegulalp WebAssembly, the portable code format positioned as an option to run any language in the browser, is poised to move from lab toy to production tool. But there’s still a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Salesforce users: if you buy it, you integrate it
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•Most Salesforce users don’t have a clear integration strategy beyond manual coding, and it’s unclear who should do it. …read more Source:: it-priorities
After a decade, open source Java is still controversial
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•By Paul Krill Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, with many in the community extolling the importance of an open Java, while others remain critical of its …read more Source:: OpenSource
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds new workflow options
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The big changes rolled out for GitHub Enterprise 2.8 may seem familiar, but don’t say GitHub is running out of ideas. Instead, the company is adding tools to …read more Source:: OpenSource