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HackerOne, a platform that is offering hosting for bug bounty programs, announced today that open-source projects can now sign up for a free bug bounty program if they meet a few simple conditions. The new offering, named HackerOne Community Edition, is identical with HackerOne Professional Edition, the commercial service the company is offering to some […]
Short Bytes: Upspin is a new open source project to enable simple file sharing. Developed by three Google engineers, Upspin introduces the concept of a global namespace for naming files, using a person’s email address. The path to shared file looks like what we have seen on Unix systems. An Access file included in a shared […]
Short Bytes: GitHub recently launched a detailed guide about contributing to open source. Since long, newbies have struggled to find projects to contribute to and what exactly to start contributing to them. Veterans have struggled to make new contributors feel welcome and encouraged for contributions. The guide provides detailed timeline steps of what to look for, […]
Short Bytes: According to the Linux boss Linus Torvalds, hard work plays a much larger role in a project’s success. Calling the tech industry’s talk of innovation bullshi*t, he said that industry’s “celebration of innovations” is self-congratulatory. “Ninety-nine per cent of it is to get the work done,” he added. Linus Torvalds is known for creating […]
Short Bytes: Brotli is new open source data compression library developed by Google. Its lossless compress algorithm manages to outperform the current compression algorithms in use, namely, gzip, deflate, etc. Although it arrived in 2015, many famous web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera has brought support for Brotli only since the last year. Nowadays, the web pages aren’t […]
Short Bytes: ToaruOS 1.0, the first stable release of hobby OS/kernel Toaru, has been finally released. This open source operating system is mostly written from scratch. It comes with composited GUI, dynamically linked ELF binaries, Python applications, networking, etc. The interested users can grab the source code from GitHub and download the Live CD for […]
Short Bytes: To manage its code more efficiently, Microsoft has created open source Git Virtual File System (GVFS). It’s designed to deal with large Git repos more efficiently by virtualizing the file system in the repo and reducing the time taken to perform critical operations. Now, Microsoft has open sourced the client side source code of GVFS. […]
Short Bytes: If you’re planning to some DIY stuff in the coming future. Then you might want to take a look at the Teres I created by Olimex. It is a small-sized DIY laptop built using open source hardware. It features a quad-core ARM processor and it is capable of running Linux operating system. Teres […]
Short Bytes: The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 5.3. Calling it one of the biggest releases so far, Foundation has labeled this release as a big step forward. LibreOffice 5.3 ships with Microsoft Office-like Ribbon UI called MUFFIN. You can download the suite for Windows, Linux, and Windows. This release also marks the first source release of […]
Short Bytes: One year ago, putting yourself entirely into a position of Open Source contribution was a difficult task, there was no consistent money out of working on one. One had to have a full-time job in a company for money. Open Collective, a platform for curating funds for open source projects, is changing that, starting […]
Short Bytes: This week, open source world was greeted with the open source code of George Hotz’s comma.ai self-driving car. In other news, Firefox and Tor issued critical security patches. For more, read our weekly Linux and open source news roundup and stay in the know. Linux & Open Source News Of The Week George Hotz open sources […]
Short Bytes: This week Fedora 25 arrived with Wayland, GNOME 3.22, and other cutting-edge Linux features. We also read about Tor Phone prototype, VLC 360 preview, and Cinnamon 3.22 desktop environment. For more Linux and open source news, read our weekly roundup and stay in the know. Linux and Open Source News Of The Week […]
Short Bytes: PineBook is a budget laptop running an Allwinner quad-core 64-bit processor. The device comes in two screen sizes both of them having 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC storage along various ports and connectivity options. PineBook supports a number of Linux distros and Android versions. If you are looking for a low-cost Linux machine which is also […]
Short Bytes: We’re a little late on reporting the Minoca OS announcement, but only because we’re bringing some exclusive content to our article, so be sure to read on for some new insight into Minoca OS. It’s a general purpose operating system written from the ground up with an intention to conserve power, storage and […]
Short Bytes: Last week, we read about the release of different Linux distributions, including RHEL 7.3, Manjaro 16.10, and Ubuntu Core 16. In other news, popular text editor Vim completed its 25 years and the developers of Mythbuntu Linux distribution announced the end of Mythbuntu. To know more, read our Linux & Open Source Weekly Roundup and stay […]
Short Bytes: Apart from the Apple and Microsoft event buzz, this week we also read about some big updates from Linux and open source world. Microsoft released its open source machine learning toolkit, Mozilla announced a new browser engine for Firefox, and we also got to know about the next Linux Mint release. To know more, read […]
Short Bytes: This week in Linux and open source news, we read about the availability of Fedora on Raspberry Pi, formation of JavaScript Foundation, and Live kernel patching in Ubuntu. Other developments include the release of open source Nomulus TLD registry platform by Google and new Linux distro releases. Read our Linux & Open Source Weekly Roundup […]
Short Bytes: This week in Linux and open source news, we read about the release of Ubuntu 16.10 and FreeBSD 11. We also celebrated the 20th birthday of KDE Project and witnessed a new Cyanogen Modular OS. To know more, read our Linux & Open Source Weekly Roundup and stay updated! Linux and open source news Nexedi, […]
Short Bytes: The White House has open sourced its Facebook Messenger bot that was launched in August. The chatbot, which receives messages on behalf of President Obama, is developed using Drupal. It is available for download on the GitHub repository of the White House. President Barack Obama’s Facebook Messenger bot went live in August. The bot […]
Short Bytes: Nexedi, a French open source software vendor has sued Apple. The lack of support for standard web technologies on iOS irked the company, resulting in the allegations that Apple’s App Store contract is unfair. We have contacted Apple for a clarification and we’ll be keeping you in the know. Nexedi, a French maker of open […]
Short Bytes: This week in Linux and open source news, we read about the release of Linux kernel 4.8 and Plasma 4.8 desktop. There were other notable open source releases like Google Noto font and Cartographer. To know more, read our Linux & Open Source Weekly Roundup and stay updated! Linux and open source news Linux Kernel […]