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GNU/Linux



Free Software/Open Source



  • Open source support gives older software a fighting chance
    It would be difficult to find someone who could provide more insight into what is happening in the world of the Eclipse IDE than Wayne Beaton, the director of open source projects at The Eclipse Foundation. So what is new with Eclipse, beyond the obvious excitement surrounding the latest Eclipse Kepler release and the recently announced support for Java 8?


  • SaaS/Big Data



    • ownCloud Client 1.6.1
      The recommendation is to update your installation to this version. The previous version 1.6.0 had great new features, first and foremost the parallel up- and download of files and a way more performant handling of the local sync journal. That required a lot of code changes. Unfortunately that also brought in some bugs which are now fixed with the 1.6.1 release.


    • A path to OpenStack contributions, bug reporting, and more
      Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for what's happening right now in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.




  • Databases



    • MongoDB: A showcase for the power of open source in the enterprise
      Big trends in the No Design Database era and other takeaways from MongoDB's first user conference.


    • The day I finally drank the open source Kool-Aid
      The combination of the Internet, Moores Law and hyper fast commoditization changed that, but not as quickly as you might imagine. At least not until the most recent times (perhaps the last five years) when vendors emerged who upended the old models and presented us with a fresh way to look at everything compute related. Infrastructure, Database, Software, Platform…Pretty Much Everything is rapidly being converted to a Service. Witness Citi recently talking MongoDB as a Service.




  • CMS



    • 3 open source content management systems compared
      Whether you need to set up a blog, a portal for some specific usage, or any other website, which content management system is right for you? is a question you are going to ask yourself early on. The most well-known and widely used open source content management system (CMS) platforms are: Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal. They are all based on PHP and MySQL and offer a wide range of options to users and developers alike.




  • Healthcare



  • Business



  • Funding



    • Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free
      About the only thing GNU Project founder Richard Stallman and I can agree on when it comes to software freedom is that it's "Free as in free speech, not free beer."

      I really hope the Heartbleed vulnerability helps bring home the message to other communities that FOSS does not materialize out of empty space; it is written by people. We love what we do, which is why I'm sitting here, way past midnight on a Saturday evening, writing about it; but we are also real people with kids, cars, mortgages, leaky roofs, sick pets, infirm parents, and all kinds of other perfectly normal worries.

      The only way to improve the quality of FOSS is to make it possible for these perfectly normal people to spend time on it. They need time to review patch submissions carefully, to write and run test cases, to respond to and fix bug reports, to code, and most of all, time just to think about the code and what should happen to it.



    • base Raises $60 Million to Fuel NoSQL Database Effor
      It takes a lot of money to build a database company in an industry dominated by a giant like Oracle. It's a lesson that open-source NoSQL database startup Couchbase know well as it continues to raise funding to build its business.




  • FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC



    • Introducing Alex Patel, our summer Campaigns intern
      My name is Alex Patel, and I'll be working as an intern with the campaigns team at the Free Software Foundation this summer. This fall, I will be a sophomore at Harvard College in Cambridge, MA, at which I'm pursuing a joint degree in computer science and philosophy.


    • Learn How to Protect Your Email Communication in Less Than 30 Minutes
      Email Self-Defense, a beginner's guide and infographic to email encryption by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), was released in six new languages [fr, de, jp, ru, pt, tr] on June 30, 2014. More languages are underway.




  • Openness/Sharing



  • Programming



    • Governance for the GitHub generation
      In software, this is epitomized by the GitHub generation, but I believe it's a characteristic of any aspect of culture touched by the Internet. For those still trapped in the worldview of the Industrial Age, a hierarchy of mediators collects dues in return for providing permission to pass. But the Internet connects everyone to everyone else, peer to peer without discrimination...


    • The D Language LLVM Compiler Updated With Numerous Changes
      LDC that's the LLVM-based D language code compiler has been updated. LDC 0.13.0 was released last week with new features.






Leftovers



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