By Jim Lynch Linux Mint and security problems Linux Mint has been lambasted by some in the media for security problems over the last few years. But how accurate are such perceptions? Does …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: March 2017
MIT-Stanford project uses LLVM to break big data bottlenecks
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The more cores you can use, the better — especially with big data. But the easier a big data framework is to work with, the harder it is for the …read more Source:: OpenSource
How an open source Gitter could challenge Slack
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It sure sounds like a match made in dev heaven. Yesterday, GitLab — maker of an open source competitor to GitHub — announced it had acquired Gitter, a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Safety in Node.js: NodeSource to certify NPM modules
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•By Paul Krill NodeSource’s Certified Modules service, intended to ensure the safety of NPM modules, becomes generally available on Thursday. Previously available only in a private beta stage, the service for Node.js was developed …read more Source:: OpenSource
Docker frees container core for Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Docker has long anticipated placing containerd, a core piece of the Docker runtime, under the stewardship of a third-party group. Now the official word is out: Docker’s submitting …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: 8 free alternatives to Windows and MacOS
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•By Jim Lynch 8 free alternatives to Windows and MacOS Windows has its virtues, but many people simply don’t like it and don’t want it running on their computers. Nor do they wish to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Mesosphere DC/OS brings elastic scale to Redis, Couchbase
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mesosphere DC/OS, the datacenter automation solution built atop the Apache Mesos orchestration system to provide one-click management for complex applications, has now hit its 1.9 revision. With …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Is Windows 10 an operating system or an advertising platform?
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•By Jim Lynch Is Windows 10 an operating system or an advertising platform? Windows 10 has certainly gotten its share of lumps since it was released. Some users really liked it, while other detested …read more Source:: OpenSource
LLVM coroutines come to C++, await Swift and Rust
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•By Serdar Yegulalp LLVM, the open source compiler framework that’s used as part of the toolchain for languages like Rust and Swift, was bumped up to version 4.0 this week. The most …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: The best distros for newbies?
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•By Jim Lynch Linux: The best distros for newbies? Linux offers an amazing range of distributions for all users, but for newbies it can be difficult to decide which distro to start with on …read more Source:: OpenSource