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Links 4/7/2016: VectorLinux 7.2 Beta, Linux 4.7 RC 6





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GNU/Linux



Free Software/Open Source



  • Why PayPal bets on open-source
    The old way was to spend a lot of money on limited software and hardware. The new way, as PayPal's Bill Scott, VP of next gen commerce found, is to scale out with lots of low-cost hardware and software. Open-source enables this, and to marvelously good effect.

    Scott, a firm believer in lean engineering, stands by the fact that it's the secret sauce that fosters innovation and efficacy.

    Lean engineering, simply put, is becoming a part of the experimentation and learning cycle. The idea is to have rapid iteration and get feedback from customers quickly.


  • Distributed, Open Source Chat with Vector and Matrix
    When it comes to chat, you have many choices. Facebook Messenger, Google Talk, Whatsapp, Kik, and Slack are all viable options. However, all of these choices are proprietary, and require you to use servers that you can’t run yourself. They’re highly centralized, closed source tools.

    In the open source world, IRC has been the go to solution for chat for many years, and for good reason. Anyone can run a server, there’s many clients, and it’s built on open standards. But IRC comes from a pre-mobile world, and relies on clients to maintain persistent connections to the server. It’s not the best experience on a phone.


  • The Growth of the Linux and Open Source Channel since 1989
    The Linux kernel was born twenty-five years ago this summer. Since that time a thriving partner ecosystem has arisen around open source platforms built on Linux, GNU and other free and open source software products. Here's a look at milestones in the evolution of the Linux channel and partner ecosystem.


  • Living, in Limbo [Ed: Pieter Hintjens, famous Free software developer, with terminal cancer]
    "Is he getting better, or is he dying?" asked my nephew of me. How to explain? The hospital sent me home three months ago with boxes of pain killers, oxygen, a medical bed, and home care. Palliative care: aim for quality of life, not return to normal. And yet here I am, not on oxygen, not taking the pain killers, and seeing medical staff only when it's time for my biweekly chemotherapy.

    I'm clearly not dying yet. And still, slowly losing weight and muscle. A simple walk leaves me tired and needing to sit. I wake up, make an early morning cup of chicory/coffee, drink it, then lie down again, hit by the simple effort of standing up.

    We did a CAT scan a few weeks ago. Inconclusive. Things don't seem worse. Yet the numerous little blobs of cancer are still there in my lungs, patient. Another scan in a month, and we'll have a better idea.


  • Web Browsers



  • SaaS/Back End



  • CMS



    • Arastta: Community Driven & Open Source eCommerce
      Arastta eCommerce is an open source project which is driven by its community. For a relatively new startup project Arastta has a great community sharing ideas, translating into different world languages, reporting issues and bugs, contributing the source code and helping to plan the future of the project.




  • Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)



  • Public Services/Government



  • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration



    • Peerplays creates open-source profit sharing module
      Blockchain-based online gaming and wagering platform Peerplays, has created an open-source fee sharing module that will enable direct profit distribution to token holders by any Graphene-based blockchain platform.


    • Open Hardware/Modding



      • Wevolver Open Source 3D Printable Robots And More (video)
        ...if you are interested in creating your own 3D printed robots using a little Arduino programming, open source coding or making in general. You might be interested in some new 3D printed open source robot projects which have been published to the Revolver website for all skill levels.








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