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Short Bytes: Qubes OS is a free and open-source software (FOSS) that takes the security standards to a new level. It makes use of Xen Hypervisor and works on the Principle of least privileges. While building an operating system, stability and functionality is one of the top preferences of the team. Another big aspect of an […]
Short Bytes: Canonical is organizing India’s first ever Ubuntu Hackathon in Bangalore between October 15-16, 2015. Know about different categories, great prizes and how to register. Ubuntu Linux is the world’s most popular free and open source operating system. Canonical, the company behind the OS, is the platinum sponsor of the upcoming Mobile Developer Summit 2015 […]
Short Bytes: Linus Torvalds is the creator of Linux and he still decides what will happen in the world of Linux. Read more and watch an amazing video in which Linux talks to Bloomberg about his first line of code. Linus Torvalds is the king of all geeks. You instantly know that he thinks in […]
Short Bytes: Using the Internet of Things we will control our future lives by inculcating electronics and internet in each and every small thing around us. Now take the Internet of Things + cloud in one hand and pick up the power of artificial intelligence + open source in the other, and mix them. This is […]
Short Bytes: The Linux Foundation is giving away one free Chromebook to those who will enroll in its one-month training courses. This offer begins on September 1 and runs until September 30. Hurry up! The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the growth of open source, is giving away one free Chromebook to those […]
Short Bytes: Technology pioneer IBM has open sourced 50 tools and apps. These tools cover a large interest area varying from Cloud, Analytics, IoT, Mobile, Security, Social, Watson and more. The company has also launched developerWorks Open, a community to empower open source and IBM’s homegrown technologies. As the voice to make the web a more open […]
Short Bytes : The developer team behind Linux-based Solus distro has achieved a remarkable feat as they brought down the boot time of the Solus operating system to 1.2 seconds. Solus is approaching its stable release and the team has now started showing off its OS’s new features. After months of aggressive marketing and promotions, […]
This is the first article of the series where we will be publishing about top open source projects made by big blue chips like Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Netflix etc. We want our readers to be aware of the technologies and projects that help these giants to make continuous improvement irrespective of scale, security and […]
About eighteen months ago, GitHub launched its homegrown text editor named Atom. Atom was a result of about six years of research and was available to the users with the beta status. Today, GitHub’s hackable text editor is graduating and hitting 1.0. Atom has already been downloaded more than 1.3 million times and has more […]
If you are Linux enthusiast, you would be aware of the fact that a new Ubuntu release is soon followed by the announcement of the codename of next release. Earlier this week, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced the codename of the Ubuntu 15.10 release and it’s ‘Wily Werewolf.’ Ubuntu codenames its versions with two words […]
Microsoft is busy launching new products and services from its Developer Build Conference 2015. Yesterday we saw the unveiling of Microsoft Edge – the Internet Explorer replacement – and many other ambitious announcements. Today, at the second day, Microsoft announced a new framework, Vorlon.JS, that will help developers to debug JavaScript running on remote devices. […]
Source: TechCrunch From Last November, Microsoft was teasing its developers by saying that some of the key features for Microsoft .NET platform can show-up on Linux or Mac. Today, at its Build developer Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft officially announced that its first full preview of the Microsoft .NET Core run-time is coming for Linux […]
Microsoft released a new development tool – Visual Studio Code – that works Windows, Linux, and Mac. This is being seen as a move by Microsoft to expand its horizon outside the Windows operating system world and a continuation to its last year’s move to make its .NET development platform open-source. This application is in […]
Finally, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet has arrived. One of the world’s best Linux-based operating systems, Ubuntu, is witnessing a final and stable release of Ubuntu 15.04. This version is codenamed Vivid Vervet – it’s a type of monkey. Ubuntu 15.04 has been launched with some new features that make it a necessary update. Visit this […]
This year’s first Ubuntu release – Ubuntu 15.04 – is being loved by all. Ubuntu is the favorite platform of developers and it now it covers a variety of devices – desktop, mobile, cloud and IoT. This will be followed by the upcoming release of Ubuntu 15.10. For a moment, Ubuntu 15.04 won’t seem much different to […]
image: jalopnik.com An embedded systems developer and former Tesla intern has released an open source CANard software and CANard hardware designs to help anyone to hack their connected cars using this car hacking device. Eric Evenchick has released this Python-based toolkit to work with the CAN (Controller Area Network) which is responsible for a number […]
In an important policy change, the Government of India announced that it will adopt the open source software and make it mandatory for all the government software services and applications. Narendra Modi led government said that as a part if its Digital India campaign, all the e-governance projects will use the free and open source […]
Here is today’s best news for the Linux and open-source enthusiasts. The popular open-source desktop environment GNOME has released the latest stable update- GNOME 3.16. Over the years, GNOME desktop has seen its share of ups and downs evolving to become one of the most loved open-source environments. Each GNOME release continues to make it […]
Back in the year 2013, Facebook developed a tool to test its apps on slow connections named Augmented Traffic Control. Everyone is frustrated when mobile networks are slow and apps don’t respond smoothly. Augmented Traffic Control is being used by Facebook to know how its apps react when users are on a slow network connection. […]