2012
Sub-archives
Dec 13, 2012
Global open-source vendors gain new leg up in selling to US agencies
Government ruling paves the way for software vendors to sell to US government agencies, even if some of their code is written in non-designated countries. read more...
Dell commits to open-source software for its future clouds
Dell will use the OpenStack cloud management and automation software for its public and private cloud products, the company has announced, in a sign of increasing support for the open-source project. read more...
Dec 10, 2012
Five out of six developers now using or deploying open source
Five out of six developers recently surveyed by Forrester Research say they have used or are using open source tools as part of their application development or deployment and the top five classes of software used are operating systems, web servers, databases, developer tools and configuration management tools read more...
Dec 06, 2012
Red Hat Launches Open Source Solutions for Hybrid Clouds
Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, announced new portfolio of solutions designed for open hybrid cloud for enterprises to create and manage open hybrid clouds. read more...
Open-source MariaDB, a MySQL fork, challenges Oracle
MariaDB, the MySQL fork database management system, is throwing down the gauntlet to Oracle by forming a foundation to promote its alternative DBMS software. read more...
Dec 04, 2012
4 open source software to analyse big quantity of log files
Logging is a critical thing for all system administrators, if you log too much and you don’t manage the files you could fill up a partition or even worst stop some service, if you don’t log enough you’ll lose information when something goes wrong, in general a good solution for this is to send all the logs to a central server that will store for the time you need them, and keep just 1,2 days of log into the local machine. read more...
Shimming your way to Linux on Windows 8 PCs
Well-known developer Matthew Garrett has just made it easier for Linux to boot on PCs locked down with Windows 8 Secure Boot. read more...
Dec 03, 2012
NYSE OpenMAMA Advances Open Source Messaging
Open Source software has been at the heart of modern financial institutions and capital markets for several years. read more...
Nov 29, 2012
Forrester: open source project explosion driving a "golden era" in app dev
The explosion in open source projects in the HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery, PhoneGap, Sencha, Hadoop and Cordova are driving a new model and a golden age of "app" development, Forrester Research says. read more...
Fedora Linux 18 beta finally released
The latest version of Fedora has just moved to beta and it includes the GNOME 2.x fork MATE desktop as well as the GNOME 3.x desktop. read more...
Jul 17, 2012
Linux developers working on Windows UEFI secure boot problem
With Windows 8 PCs with UEFI secure boot locks on their way, Linux developers are working on addressing its problems. read more...
Jul 12, 2012
Facebook makes iOS integration easier for developers
The social network's tie-in with Apple's platform continues apace, with a new beta release of Facebook's iOS SDK allowing developers to build easier Facebook authentication into their native iPhone and iPad apps. read more...
Apache Lucene/Solr making gains in enterprise search
The open source Lucene/Solr platform is making headway as proprietary vendors gobble up enterprise search platforms. Apache's related Nutch 2.0 open source web crawling platform, which was released today, is also gaining adherents. read more...
Feb 15, 2012
Pentaho open sources big data code, licenses Kettle project under Apache 2.0
Pentaho has open sourced some of the big data assets in its Kettle open source project — and moved its entire Kettle Data Integration Platform to Apache 2.0 — in order to capture more of the booming Hadoop and NoSQL business. read more...
Google, Motorola must capitalize on regulatory win to battle Apple's iPad
The US Department of Justice and European Commission have okayed Google’s planned $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Now the two have to work together — and fast — to bbring Android 4.0 to Motorola’s Xoom and XyBoard and whatever other Android tablet platform that can grab some share against Apple’s iPad. read more...
Feb 01, 2012
IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork
Going forward, IBM will be putting its efforts behind the Apache Foundation’s OpenOffice instead of its own OpenOffice fork. read more...
Mint's Cinnamon: The Future of the Linux Desktop?
Can a back to the past Linux desktop win more fans than GNOME 3.x, KDE 4.x, or Ubuntu’s Unity or HUD? I think so. read more...
Jan 30, 2012
Linux users cautiously optimistic about Ubuntu's Head-Up Display desktop
Most users seem willing to give Ubuntu Linux’s Head-Up Display interface the benefit of the doubt. read more...
Jan 24, 2012
Big Business, Big Linux
IT funds may be short, but The Linux Foundation has found that companies are still investing in Linux for cloud computing, “Big Data,” and greenfield deployments. read more...
How 'Post-PC' could be good for Linux
Choice is no longer a dirty word when it comes to operating systems. read more...
