By Serdar Yegulalp There’s a new object storage server that has been introduced as an open source alternative to Amazon S3 and other API-compatible services. Minio, written in Go and available under …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: January 2017
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: Does price matter more than freedom?
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By Jim Lynch Linux: Price versus freedom One of the best things about Linux is that each user is free to use or modify any open source software. But one redditor recently raised the …read more Source:: OpenSource
LinkedIn’s top jobs of 2017 all involve software in one way or another
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Nine of the 20 top jobs identified by LinkedIn involve information technology development, operations or analytics. The rest — including healthcare — depend on IT. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Amazon’s deep learning darling MXNet hits Apache Incubator
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By Serdar Yegulalp MXNet, chosen by Amazon as its “deep learning framework of choice,” has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator to support its future development. This is not the …read more Source:: OpenSource
First look: LibreOffice 5.3 takes a cue from Microsoft Office’s ribbon
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By Serdar Yegulalp The latest pre-release version of the free and open source productivity suite LibreOffice 5.3 comes with a new tab-style UI codenamed MUFFIN (My User Friendly & …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: The 10 best privacy and security distributions
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By Jim Lynch The 10 best privacy and security distributions Privacy has become an important issue for many users as corporations and governments stop at nothing to gather personal information. But Linux users do …read more Source:: OpenSource
TensorFlow 1.0 unlocks machine learning on smartphones
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By Serdar Yegulalp TensorFlow, Google’s open source deep learning framework, has announced a release candidate for a full-blown version 1.0. Version 1.0 not only brings improvements to the framework’s gallery of machine learning …read more Source:: OpenSource
Hadoop vendors make a jumble of security
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By Matt Asay A year ago a Deutsche Bank survey of CIOs found that “CIOs are now broadly comfortable with [Hadoop] and see it as a significant part of the future …read more Source:: OpenSource
OpenSSL issues new patches as Heartbleed still lurks
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid The OpenSSL Project has addressed some moderate-severity security flaws, and administrators should be particularly diligent about applying the patches since there are still 200,000 systems vulnerable to the Heartbleed …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apache Eagle keeps an eye on big data usage
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By Serdar Yegulalp Apache Eagle, originally developed at eBay and then donated to the Apache Software Foundation, fills big data security niche that remains thinly populated, if not bare: …read more Source:: OpenSource