Source: www.quora.com --- Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
Guerrilla SOA redux? PwC consultants recommend lighter, simpler, faster services to keep up with business demands. |
The OPNFV will be a project at the Linux Foundation to create an open-source reference platform for NFV. |
Arduino Arduino, maker of the open source hardware platform of the same name, is teaming up with a startup called Sharebot to sell a 3D printer for about $1,000. Announced today, Materia 101 will be demonstrated at the Maker Faire in Rome this weekend. An on-sale date has not been revealed. |
Source: www.mybloggerworld.com --- Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
Source: www.shushanqixia.com --- Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
The New Stack: Josh McKenty, founder of Piston and an early architect of what became OpenStack, announced today that he's leaving the company he started to take on a new role at Pivotal. |
The streaming stick market is apparently heating up. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all have entrants in this space, and if a new Kickstarter appeal succeeds, there will soon be a Firefox OS stick getting in on the action. |
Facebook. It's one of the world's most well-known tech companies and on the forefront of open source technology. Just take a look their portfolio of over 200 open source projects on GitHub. In this interview with James Pearce, head of Open Source at Facebook, I speak with him prior to... |
Johnny Hughes has announced the release of CentOS 5.11, the distribution's final release in the 5.x branch. |
Storm, a real-time framework for dealing with Big Data, has become an Apache top level project. |
Scribbleton is a very infant -- as in alpha -- release of an innovative note-taking app for Linux that provides cross-platform access with Windows and Apple computers. It creates a personal wiki for storing everything from quick notes to detailed checklists to outlines. It creates links between pages in Scribbleton. |
eBay and PayPal are both on the OpenStack bandwagon. The PayPal spin-off will highlight how easy or difficult it will be to break up an OpenStack private cloud. |
I had believed that VMware took part in the OpenStack community because it was dragged there by its customers. Boy, I was wrong. VMware's Dan Wendlandt helps set me straight. |
How do you connect remote workers together for better culture? |
It's no secret that Fedora has had a challenging time sticking to their release schedules for a long time. With taking care of blocker bugs, Fedora Linux releases tend to frequently slip -- with Fedora 21 it's about two months behind schedule and we're just past the alpha stage. By... |
Baseline: If you want to move ahead in your career, it's important to command a skill that will enable you to write your own ticket in terms of job opportunities. |
Openness at Microsft Blog: Microsoft has participated in the Linux community for several years now, contributing drivers for Hyper-V to the Linux kernel source code base, and then working with Linux distribution partners to incorporate those drivers into their distros. We've had great results in running a variety of Linux distros as a guest OS on Hyper-V and as a VM in Microsoft Azure, and our collaboration with SUSE... |
Earlier this month NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 as their highest-end offerings based on their Maxwell architecture. Since the GTX 750 series debut I have been anxious to see Maxwell succeed Kepler in the high-end space and finally last week I got hands on time with... |
The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Collaborative Project, Open Platform for NFV, or OPNFV. It involves nearly 40 companies and has largely been driven by end users like AT&T, China Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, Telecom Italia and Vodafone, among others. Together this community aims to build a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform to accelerate Network Function Virtualization. |
Source: chariz38.yu.tl --- Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
It has been announced on Wednesday, that a serious vulnerability has been found in the bash program installed on Linux, Unix and MacOSX systems. Because this bug is a hidden open-door to your system, hackers can gain access to your system from the internet, a run programs completely taking over the system. This is a serious problem, that if not handled quickly, and properly, will cause serious damage to your computer and Internet infrastructures since most of the computers servicing the Internet are running a Linux or Unix OS. Heed these warnings. Read these links thoroughly and make sure you update your Linux, Unix and MacOS X systems with the latest patch for bash. Start patching immediately. http://www.zdnet.com/shellshock-better-bash-patches-now-available-7000034115/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/bug-in-bash-shell-creates-big-security-hole-on-anything-with-nix-in-it/ |
Both Web-based software and Linux software offer significant costs savings. Is one actually better in the long term? |
Daily Dot: Is this how the mainstream finally begins to win back its online privacy? |
The new systems ramp up ARM's competition with Intel and give data centers greater compute choices. |
The Eclipse IoT community is helping Java developers to connect and manage devices in an IoT solution by delivering an Open IoT Stack for Java. |
The year was 1987, and as Fox drove cross-country to his new home, the tapes held a software program called Bash, a tool for the UNIX operating system he had written and tagged with a license that let anyone use the code and even redistribute it to others. |
Source: www.igoldrush.com --- Monday, September 29, 2014 |
System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new patch that addresses additional attack vectors. |
Last year, the web optimization network CloudFlare promised it would double SSL usage on the web in 2014 — and last night, the company made good on its promise. Overnight, CloudFlare deployed its Universal SSL feature, offering free SSL encryption to any site that opted in. All told, that meant... |
The new vulnerability in the Bash shell is the worst we've seen in many years. No software on critical systems can be assumed as safe. |
Everywhere you turn these days you hear the term "open" in networking. The idea of openness in networking has come a long way in the past year and it's now considered the de facto standard way that we'll achieve interoperability and innovation. |
Ted Unangst has posted an update on LibreSSL development. "Joel and I have been working on a replacement API for OpenSSL, appropriately entitled ressl. Reimagined SSL is how I think of it. Our goals are consistency and simplicity. In particular, we answer the question 'What would the user like to... |
Following last week's release of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Linux I published many AMD/NVIDIA GPU benchmarks of CS:GO. Those initial results were done using the proprietary AMD and NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers while starting today will be the open-source graphics driver results for this highly popular Valve game. |
Source: www.domaining.com --- Monday, September 29, 2014 |
Source: www.jessica-sutta.com --- Sunday, September 28, 2014 |