It’s no secret that one of the biggest “bugs” in software engineering, particularly open source software, is documentation. Or, rather, the lack of good documentation. Talking to the founders of the fio and Datasette open source projects, some clues emerge as to how to quash that bug.
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IBM has come up with a new open source offering and design toolkit that give designers and developers the tools they need to make their websites and applications accessible. The Equal Access Toolkit and Checker are tools for developers and testers to use to embed accessibility directly into their workflow.
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Enterprise cloud software firm D2iQ has introduced the D2iQ Shortcut to Success package for $25,000. The promotion focuses on empowering organizations to take advantage of the speed and agility offered by Kubernetes and shorten the time-to-value of projects by accelerating the journey to production.
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Xscode international, which does business as xs:code, is teaming up with Redis Labs, developer of the popular Redis in-memory data structure store, to provide financial incentives for software developers. Xs:code’s platform provides open-source software developers with a way to make money from their code by offering premium features and support.
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It’s been a long time since anyone thought Linux could seriously challenge Windows for domination as a desktop operating system. But that doesn’t mean that interest in having Linux on your laptop has entirely vanished. “It’s very exciting,” Matthew Miller, project lead for Fedora, tells TechRepublic.
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Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Microsoft has certainly changed since the days of branding Linux a cancer. It is now the single largest contributor to open-source projects in the world.
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Microsoft will share its knowledge of coronavirus-related cyberthreats in a bid to help security teams identify and address new threats. The software giant has gathered a wealth of threat data, amounting to trillions of data points, via the Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) service embedded in its security offering Microsoft Defender.
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NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX developer kit is now available with cloud-native support. Delivering up to 21 TOPS of compute in a compact form factor with under 15W of power, Jetson Xavier NX is said to bring server-level performance and cloud-native workflows to edge AI devices and autonomous machines.
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Many modern Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and its derivatives, now use netplan as it’s network configuration abstraction. Let’s walk you through the process of creating a bridge network, such that it can be used for your virtual machines.
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Remote work — all of a sudden with no time to plan for it — is disruptive. It’s unfamiliar. It’s stressful. It’s distracting, especially for those with school-aged children who are now themselves remote learners. Here are some of the ways open source communities mitigate the absence of physical human contact.
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