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Short Bytes: Upgradable portable computers have been a bit of pipe dream for the last decade. While we do have some laptops that lend themselves to upgrades and repairs more than others, the units still depend on an OEM motherboard. The Embedded Open Modular Architecture/EOMA-68 standard is looking to challenge that status quo. Portable computers, […]
Short Bytes: In the first six months of 2016, world’s largest social networking website Facebook has already open sourced 54 projects. These projects include Draft.js, Reason, ReDex, Facebook CTF, Torch etc. More than a dozen of these open source Facebook projects have already become pretty popular in the community. It’s often said that the 21st […]
Short Bytes: As promised, Intel has open sourced an early version of its SGX tool for Linux. Intel SGX is a set of instructions that create a private region for sensitive code and data. This enclave is invisible to even the machine’s CPU with root privileges. At the moment, this release only supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS […]
Short Bytes: From the world of open source, here comes a great news. The Bulgarian government has passed a law that has made the use of open source software in government offices compulsory. We welcome this step and hope that other governments will take similar steps and make more information accessible to the users. Bulgarian […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has released the .NET Core 1.0 for Linux, Windows, and macOS. This announcement adds a new chapter in Microsoft’s love affair with Linux and open source. While Red Hat’s RHEL Linux distribution currently supports .NET Core 1.0, Microsoft is working to bring the same ability to Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS. Back in November 2014, […]
Short Bytes: Checked C helps a programmer avoid common mistakes while dealing with pointers in C. Microsoft’s Checked C research project aims to make the system software more reliable and secure. To do the same, Microsoft has open sourced Checked C, an extension of C programming language that adds the static and dynamic checking to […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has released its own FreeBSD distribution and offered official support to Azure users. The kernel level changes/investments made by Redmond will be up-streamed into the official FreeBSD 10.3 release. Justin T. Gibbs, the FreeBSD Foundation’s President, called its an important milestone for the community. Wwriting the latest chapter of its love affair with open […]
Short Bytes: Should GitHub remove contribution graph from the personal profile of the contributors or the developers? This step might be taken for the personal well-being of the developers. Open source is good but personal life cannot be ignored either. What could motivate open source contributors to contribute more? Surely, some parameters like upvotes, followers, contribution […]
Short Bytes: Linux secretly plays one of the biggest parts in our technology-filled lives by running our phones, computers, websites, ATMs, power plants, routers etc. But, who builds Linux and how its development is managed? In a short video, the Linux Foundation attempts to explain the same. The Linux collaborative project was started by Linus […]
Short Bytes: Since the beginning of the free and open source software movement, a lot has changed. Today, open technologies are being used by millions of individuals and companies to make their products better. Open source software development also brings numerous benefits to a developer and here we are going to talk more about the same. […]
Short Bytes: To make the process of learning programming and DIYing easier and cheaper, One Dollar Board’s crowdfunding campaign has arrived on Indiegogo. The team behind the project aims to make the board available at a price of $1 + shipping all across the world, with a focus on developing countries. The Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced […]
Short Bytes: SourceClear’s Open is a new tool to find potential threats in the open source code. This tool works for different platforms and frameworks like Django, Git, Bundler etc. Scanning report comes in the form of an analytics, using which a developer can also troubleshoot the buggy problems in the code. In the wake […]
Short Bytes: As a result of last year’s announcement that Italian Ministry of Defence will ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and adopt open source LibreOffice, a saving of up to 29 million is expected over the next few years. This migration is done under a project dubbed LibreDifesa that has brought LibreOffice to about 5,000 workstations. […]
Short Bytes: The Italian city of Vicenza has decided to give open source a try in a big way by adopting Zorin OS Linux in its municipality computers. This Ubuntu-based operating system will replace the Windows computers and provide a Windows 7-like desktop environment to the users. Embracing the spirit of open source, the Italian city Vincenza […]
Short Bytes: The results of a recent survey conducted by the Linux Foundation and Dice.com are out. The survey indicates that the open source professionals are now in high demand and companies are ready to pay fat packages to hire them. This growth in demand is likey to be easily seen in the next six […]
Short Bytes: Linus Torvalds is the mind behind Linux. In this article, we’ll be taking a look inside the mind of Linus Torvalds and see what he has to say about his way of working and open source. Earlier in February, at the TED 2016 conference, Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux operating system, shared his […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft and Canonical’s latest partnership that has enabled Windows users to use Ubuntu Linux apps on Windows 10 marks the start of a new friendship. Talking about the same, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says that Microsoft and Ubuntu have left their rivalry behind. We hope that it’ll make open source and FOSS movement […]
Short Bytes: Embracing Arduino’s spirit of open source, Johan Kanflo has created AAduino and shared its details on GitHub. AAduino is a miniature Arduino-compatible board that is just the size of an AA battery. Arduino is one of the most popular open source development boards that is used by DIYers and makers from all around […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft’s open source text editor Visual Editor Code has finally hit the stable version 1.0. VS Code is now used by more than 500,000 developers per month who use it to write code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C++, C#, CSS, PHP, Node.js and more. After polishing it about a year in beta, Microsoft […]
Short Bytes: WebTorrent streaming client works like a charm. WebTorrent Desktop allows you to stream and watch any torrent content instantly by skipping the need to wait for the download to complete. It’s a cross-platform service, supporting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Imagine a video site or app that looks like a combination of The Pirate Bay […]
Short Bytes: To encourage open source app development, Google has launched the Android Experiments I/O Challenge. The three winners of this challenge will win a trip to Google I/O Developer Conference 2016 and their projects will be showcased at Android Experiments. Read more to know how to participate. If you are aware of Android Experiments […]