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Short Bytes: Now you don’t need a physical Raspberry Pi to get started tinkering with hardware by running code? With the help of Microsoft’s open source Raspberry Pi Simulator, you can do the same right inside your web browser. You can also connect it to the Azure IoT Hub and collect sensor data. Currently, this […]
Short Bytes: GitHub has launched a new initiative to encourage people and organizations to contribute to open source projects. As a part of this initiative, one can start by contributing to some open source projects every Friday. The interested users can start by working on some open source tool that’s used by their company. Open source […]
Short Bytes: With the release of Windows 10 Insider Build 16215, Microsoft has announced that now users don’t need to activate Developer Mode to run Linux on Windows 10. Now, Microsoft thinks that WSL is stable enough to remove this restriction. However, this change still keeps Linux an optional component and the users manually need […]
Short Bytes: The developers of lightweight Linux distro Bodhi Linux have shipped the latest Bodhi Linux 4.2.0, which arrives 4 months after the last stable release. Please note that it isn’t a feature release and the existing users don’t need to reinstall their OS. Powered by Linux kernel 4.10, Bodhi Linux 4.2.0 comes with Swami Control […]
Short Bytes: After more than 2 years of development, the much-anticipate stable Devuan GNU+Linux 1.0 is now available for download. This forked distribution has been created for Debian lovers who hate systemd. The existing Debian 7 and 8 users can upgrade their systems to Devuan Jessie 1.0. by following a set of instructions given by […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has almost moved all of its Windows developers to Git version control system, which was developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds. This has also resulted in the largest Git repo on the planet. This repo is about 300GB in size and contains 3.5 million lines of code. Earlier this year in February, […]
The XBMC Foundation has pushed out the latest bugfix release of their open source media player Kodi. Kodi 17.2 is an important addition to the Kodi v17 Krypton and a must-have update for Kodi users. Earlier, you might have read on Fossbytes that a recently discovered attack vector could be used to compromise a system with the […]
Short Bytes: Google’s VP of engineering for Android, Dave Burke, answered some questions about Google’s secret Fuchsia OS. Talking at Android Fireside Chat, Burke said that it’s a project which isn’t directly related to Android. He said that at the moment it’s an early stage experiment, just like many other Google projects. We’ve been hearing […]
Short Bytes: Frozenbox Network has released the latest version of Parrot Security OS. Powered by custom Linux 4.9 kernel, Parrot Security OS 3.6 focuses on polishing the user experience and working environment. This release promises a lesser memory-intensive experience. Parrot 3.6 also introduces a new derivate named Parrot Air, which is built specifically for wireless testing. […]
Short Bytes: Samsung Electronics has announced Tizen 4.0 open source operating system. The latest release of this Linux-based OS aims at spreading to more high-end as well as low-end devices. With Tizen Real Time, an extra focus has been given to IoT applications. Samsung also announced new Z4 smartphone and ARTIK 053 IoT chipset. At […]
Last year, at Build 2016, Microsoft surprised the world by announcing that the developers can install Bash shell on Windows 10. This was done with the help of Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is a compatibility layer for running Linux binaries on Windows. This feature was first launched with Windows 10 Anniversary Update. To make this […]
Short Bytes: The first good look at Google’s open source operating system Fuchsia OS is here. Discovered by Hotfixit, the default GUI of Fuchsia is Armadillo and it’s the default UI for Fuchsia. The interface looks like a card-based system and contains Google Now-like suggestions. Build using Google’s Futter SDK, you can compile the code as and APK […]
Short Bytes: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux kernel 4.11. After eight release candidates, kernel 4.11, codenamed Fearless Coyote, comes with numerous new features and fixes. The major Linux Kernel 4.11 features are scalable SSD swapping, SMC-R support, AMDGPU power management improvement, Turbo Max 3.0 improvements, new perf ftrace tool, etc. After taking an extra […]
Short Bytes: Caffe2 is Facebook’s new Open Source Deep Learning Library. In contrast to its previous PyTorch library, Caffe2 is built especially for bringing Deep Learning to Mobile Applications. Our Smartphones are gonna get more “Deeply” smarter soon!!. If you think Deep Learning is just about math, you are gravely mistaken. Various research labs across the […]
Someone has created a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that uses the Telegram protocol to steal user data from infected devices. The RAT is written in Python and is currently available as a free download on a public code sharing portal. The RAT’s author, whose name we won’t be sharing, claims to have embarked into […]
Short Bytes: USB Canary is an open source tool that monitors for any suspicious activity on a computer. Written in Python language, USB Canary can send an SMS or Slack message when a USB device is attached or removed from a computer. It can do so even if the computer is locked. You can try […]
Short Bytes: Technology giant Google has released a new open source website to showcase its open source projects. It’ll contain Google’s software, the supported organizations, a list of open source projects. The company has also released its internal documentation on how it “does” open source. Google has also promised to add more projects to the […]
Short Bytes: Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus Final Beta is now available for download. Apart from the flagship Ubuntu Desktop with Unity, Kubuntu Ubuntu GNOME, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Budgie and Xubuntu have also taken part in this release. The Final Beta is powered by Linux kernel 4.10. The final stable release will […]
Short Bytes: Google is working on an open source operating system named Fuchsia. Recently, this Magenta kernel-based OS got its new logo. One of the developers also sent the first tweet from a Fuchsia device (emulator). There are indications that Google will target IoT, mobile and PC demographics with Fuchsia OS. Last year in August, we told […]
Short Bytes: Kerala adopted Free and Open Source Software in 2005 in a phased manner and went on to replace proprietary software. As a result, Kerala annually saves $58 million (Rs 300 crore). Thanks to the Free Software license, people are able to freely copy and distribute the software. At Fossbytes, we strive to tell you the […]
Short Bytes: FAISS is an open-source library released by Facebook for similarity search and clustering high-dimensional data. This library finds application in complex datasets like images and videos which could not fit in RAM all at once. With the advent of highly successful Machine Learning methods, there has been a boom in big datasets across […]