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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 19, 2019
Oracle Linux 8 Released
Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Linux 8. With the release, the core operating environment and associated packages for a typical Oracle Linux 8 server are distributed through a combination of BaseOS and Applications Streams. BaseOS gives you a running user space for the...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 19, 2019
First Preview Release Of Fedora CoreOS
First Preview Release Of Fedora CoreOS
Fedora community has announced the preview release of Fedora CoreOS. The initial preview release of Fedora CoreOS runs on bare metal, QEMU, VMware, and AWS, on x86_64 only. It supports provisioning via Ignition spec 3.0.0 and the Fedora CoreOS Config...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 19, 2019
VMware To Acquire AI, ML Accelerator Bitfusion
VMware is acquiring Austin, Texas-based Bitfusion in a move to boost its ability to support artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads in its core vSphere virtualization platform. Bitfusion last year joined VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner program. It later linked its...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 18, 2019
SAP Contributes UI5 Web Component to Open Source community
SAP has deepened its commitment to the developer and open source community with the contribution of UI5 Web Components, a comprehensive library for Web developers. The new UI5 Web Components from SAP allow developers to take advantage of the features offered by OpenUI5 while using other frameworks...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 18, 2019
GitLab Survey Reveals Disconnect Between Developer And Security Teams
In a survey conducted by GitLab, software professionals recognize the need for security to be baked into the development lifecycle, but the survey showed long-standing friction between security and development teams remain. While 69% of developers say they’re expected to write secure code, nearly...
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Linux.com Editorial Staff | July 18, 2019
Linux Foundation Energy member TenneT “open sources” their open source strategy
This post was written by Loek Bakker, Corporate Information Management Office Head at TenneT
TenneT is the first European cross-border electricity transmission system operator (TSO), with activities in the Netherlands and in Germany, providing uninterrupted electricity to over 41 million people....
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 17, 2019
New EvilGnome Backdoor Spies on Linux Users, Steals Their Files
A new Linux malware masquerading as a Gnome shell extension and designed to spy on unsuspecting Linux desktop users was discovered by Intezer Labs' researchers in early July. "EvilGnome’s functionalities include desktop screenshots, file stealing, allowing capturing audio recording from the user’s...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 17, 2019
IBM announces three new open source projects
IBM has announced three new open source projects for developers to help them build cloud-native apps faster for Kubernetes. All three projects — Kabanero, Appsody, and Codewind — are hosted on GitHub. Kabanero brings together open source projects Knative, Istio, and Tekton, with new open projects...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 17, 2019
Pivotal brings ‘cf push’ experience to Kubernetes
Pivotal has introduced the alpha version of PAS on Kubernetes, as well as new products based on PAS features that improve the developer and operator experience when using Kubernetes. The alpha version of PAS on Kubernetes brings the popular “cf push” experience to Kubernetes, making it easier for...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | July 17, 2019
Microsoft Open Sources software to guard U.S. voting machines
Microsoft is rolling out an open-source software product called ElectionGuard, which it said uses encryption to "enable a new era of secure, verifiable voting." The company is working with election machine vendors and local governments to deploy the system in a pilot program for the 2020 election....
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