By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft has extended its open source activity to include projects derived from work done on its Bing search engine. Over the last few days, engineers at Microsoft have started to provide …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Facebook rocks an open source storage engine for MySQL
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Facebook’s RocksDB key-value store has found its way into a number of third-party products, like the Apache Flink big-data processing framework and MongoDB. Now it’s taking up residence …read more Source:: OpenSource
3 new programming languages: What their creators say
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•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
A ‘boring’ Docker fork could solve some problems – and create others
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Not every open source project is destined to be forked. But when it happens, it’s as much a sign of popularity as it is disagreement within the developer community over …read more Source:: OpenSource
VMware dresses up Docker for the enterprise
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•By Serdar Yegulalp VMware’s ongoing embrace of containers has expanded with the release of Harbor, an open source project that adds enterprise-level features to Docker. It could prove enticing to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux at 25: A pictorial history
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•By Katherine Noyes A momentous milestone Aug. 25 marks the 25th anniversary of Linux, the free and open source operating system that’s used around the globe in smarphones, tablets, desktop PCs, servers, supercomputers, and …read more Source:: OpenSource
New Lever language builds on Python’s convenience, aims for PyPy speeds
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Lever, a new open source programming language now in its 0.8.0 release, may be inspired by Python, but it doesn’t intend to be limited by it. Lever’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source uproar as MariaDB goes commercial
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•By Simon Phipps MariaDB Corp. has announced that release 2.0 of its MaxScale database proxy software is henceforth no longer open source. The organization has made it source-available under <a class="colorbox" href="https://mariadb.com/bsl" …read more Source:: OpenSource
Free at last! PowerShell goes open source, heads to Linux
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft’s open source train has pulled into a most unexpected stop. PowerShell, the company’s flagship command-line environment for automation and systems management, will be released as an open source project and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Review: 6 slick open source routers
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Hackers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but the lousy stock firmware your routers shipped with. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, …read more Source:: OpenSource