By Paul Krill With hundreds of programming languages already in existence, why invest the considerable effort in creating a new one? For developers of three newfangled open source languages — Coconut, Crystal, and …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Linux
The next version of Fedora picks up Rust
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•By Serdar Yegulalp You know a language has arrived when its toolchain ships as a standard component with operating systems. Rust, Mozilla’s language for safe and speedy systems level programming, just landed a prime-time …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat Virtualization 4 woos VMware faithful
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It’s easy for a virtual machine user to feel left out these days, what with containers dominating the discussion of how to run applications at scale. But take heart, VM …read more Source:: OpenSource
Hybrid cloud is the future, even if executives don’t quite know what to make of it
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•Survey reveals full embrace of the hybrid cloud model, tempered by low understanding. …read more Source:: it-priorities
IDG Contributor Network: Linux kernel 4.7 released
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•By Jim Lynch Linux kernel 4.7 released Linus Torvalds has been hard at work on an update to the Linux kernel, and now version 4.7 has been officially released. [ The InfoWorld reviews: Ubuntu …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Make Ubuntu 16.04 look like MacOS
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•By Jim Lynch Make Ubuntu 16.04 look like MacOS Linux users often love customizing their desktop interfaces, and now you can make Ubuntu 16.04 look like MacOS with the MacBuntu 16.04 Transformation Pack. Noobs Lab …read more Source:: OpenSource
Ubuntu forum breach traced to neglected plugin
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Updating software is important, but it’s the third-party add-ons that get servers pwned. No component — theme, plugin, or module — is too small. Canonical, the commercial vendor behind Ubuntu Linux, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Spark-powered Splice Machine goes open source
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Splice Machine, the relational SQL database system that uses Hadoop and Spark to provide high-speed results, is now available in an open source edition. Version 2.0 of …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux Mint 18 reviews roundup
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•By Jim Lynch Hectic Geek: Linux Mint 18 is how it should be done Hectic Geek’s review is quite thorough and includes some interesting performance comparisons between Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18. The …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat builds Linux container security scanning into RHEL
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Red Hat is retooling its enterprise product line around containers, and it’s introduced container security components as part of that effort. This week, Red Hat showed off two methods for …read more Source:: OpenSource