The Red Hat Training & Certification is delivering live virtual training classes, extended timelines for using Red Hat Training Units and the exam window by three months for those who are not in a position to cancel or reschedule previously scheduled classes or exams.
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The Eclipse Foundation will begin to transition its headquarters from Ottawa to Brussels as part of an effort to advance international expansion. The Foundation plans to establish a new legal entity sometime in July, with personnel relocating or added to a Brussels office over time.
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The PinePhone has received a new bootloader that allows multiple Linux operating systems to boot on the device. In other words, the so-called Pineloader is a multi bootloader that essentially allows users to choose what operating system they want to run when starting the PinePhone.
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Motorola is rolling out the Android 10 update for the foldable Razr and adding a host of new features for the external “Quick View” display and some new visual customization options for icons. The bulk of the changes are in new features for the external display.
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Mozilla’s Mixed Reality group launches a cloud version of Mozilla Hubs, their social space for virtual reality gatherings. With Hubs Cloud, organisations can now deploy and customize their own instance of Mozilla Hubs. It is available on the AWS Marketplace and manages all necessary AWS resources.
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Andreea Ilie studied Japanese and East Asian culture during her university years, but had a strong interest in IT. She taught herself using free online resources in her free time, and eventually managed to secure an IT job despite her lack of formal training and experience. In 2017, Andreea heard about the Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship program and decided to submit an application.
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Thunderspy is a class of seven vulnerabilities found within Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 hardware and the researchers having found nine realistic scenarios for exploiting these Thunderbolt issues across platforms. Researcher Björn Ruytenberg summed up the situation as: “All Thunderbolt-equipped systems shipped between 2011-2020 are vulnerable.”
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The Swift project has officially landed on three more Linux distributions in addition to the two platforms that were already supported. More specifically, users are now provided with downloadable toolchain and Docker images for Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8, and Amazon Linux 2. Previously, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 were the only Linux distributions supported by Swift.
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Some enterprises have not yet used open source on premises, not to mention cloud. However, some confusing aspects of cloud-based open source—especially how to define the value—leave some enterprises scratching their heads. Here are a few emerging best practices to consider for cloud-based open source software.
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The Indian government is looking to make Aarogya Setu application open-source as unease over data surveillance grows over microblogging platform Twitter. Many users on Twitter have demanded the government to make Aarogya Setu open-source so that they can get to know the purpose of the application.
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