Open-source News

Cosmo Communicator Review: the dual boot pocket PC phone  Pocketnow

The Linux Basis Needs Open-Supply Tech to Tackle Future Pandemics  Fintech Zoom

QEMU 5.1 is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

QEMU 5.1 Release Brings Many Improvements To This Open-Source Virtualization Component  Phoronix

It was just one week ago that LibreOffice 7.0 was released and it has already seen around a half-million downloads for this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...

With the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, the Flatpak sandboxing and app distribution tech is ready to shine and there is also the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Flatpak runtime...

Red Hat Begins Talking Up The New RHEL Flatpak Runtime  Phoronix

How to Fix Unreliable USB Hard Drives, Stalled Transfers in Linux  CNX Software

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market by Technology Innovations and Growth 2020 to 2027  Chelanpress

The Linux Foundation Wants Open-Source Tech to Address Future Pandemics - CoinDesk  CoinDesk

Bleeping #855}}933{{329O] QuickBooks Support Phone Number - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linux systems are finally getting this much-needed security boost  TechRadar

I consider myself a happy Bash user. However, when I started exploring Unix, it was on a proprietary Unix system that provided tcsh by default, so my earliest shell experiences were on a modern version of the C shell (csh). That turned out to be a fortunate accident because tcsh was also the shell of choice at the film studio where I worked later in my career.

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In 2010, Google released AngularJS, an open source, JavaScript-based frontend structure for developing single-page applications (SPAs) for the internet. With its move to version 2.0 in 2016, the framework's name was shortened to Angular. AngularJS is still being developed and used, but Angular's advantages mean it's a smart idea to migrate to the newer version.

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Android and iOS devices are notorious for uploading your personal data to their cloud services without your permission. If you are concerned about your mobile data privacy, you have another option to consider for your next smartphone: the /e/ operating system, a free and open source, Android-based operating system. The eFoundation community is led by Gaël Duval, a legacy Linux developer and entrepreneur who founded Mandrake Linux in 1998.

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Women in Tech: "Aptitude has nothing to do with gender or inborn capabilities"  JAXenter

Putty is an opensource terminal emulator that supports several network protocols like Telnet, SSH, Rlogin, SCP, and Raw Socket. The initial version of putty is dated back to January 8, 1999, and designed for Windows

Intel Making Progress On Their "mOS" Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels  Phoronix

For a while now Intel has been quietly been working on "mOS" as the "multi-OS" that is a modified version of the Linux kernel that in turn is running lightweight kernels for high-performance computing purposes...

Finnix 121 Released: Linux LiveCD For System Administrators  Fossbytes