Protocol reports that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has ended years of confusion around Istio, its open-source project for service mesh. Kurian told the publication that Google will eventually donate the project to a foundation at some point in the near future. Google didn’t specifically state the name of any foundation. Google had earlier maintained a stand that it would keep control over the project instead of donating it to a foundation.
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More than a few Phoronix readers have written in over the past few days expressing outrage that Debian GNU/Linux is dropping a number of old hardware drivers. Earlier this month the Debian “X Strike Force” team decided to drop a number of obsolete input and video drivers from Debian.
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While the average American probably has a vocabulary between 20,000 and 50,000 words, Linux can claim over 100,000 words (spellings, not definitions). And you can easily put this vocabulary to work for you in a number of ways. Let’s look at how Linux can help with your word challenges.
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What starts out as a low-cost, relatively easy option can quickly become a surprisingly complex and costly endeavor, especially when terabytes of monthly data are involved, as they are in applications like log analytics. So how do you determine whether open source fits in your big data analytics budget?
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Everybody has a favorite database project that they may feel protective about. That usually comes down to the open source license. So it’s good to know where things are headed when you’re picking a license for a project or just trying to understand what’s out there.
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Apple Music, which is one of Apple’s top services and main cash cows these days, is now available on the web. In other words, you can now point your browser to music.apple.com on pretty much any operating system out there, including Linux, Windows, and even Mac.
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Try running a Linux-based OS on the iPhone as Project Insanity is here to help you out. In their latest blog posts, they demonstrated the successful installation and testing of minimal PostmarketOS, an open source Alpine Linux-based operating system, on iPhone 7 using checkra1n and Corellium tools.
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Now, instead of building ventilators, a group of open-source developers has a new idea: Create a firmware update, Airbreak, which can transform common Constant Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines into non-invasive ventilators. Their first effort converts the common, inexpensive Airsense 10 CPAP machine into a ventilator.
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Open source vulnerabilities have been on the rise in recent years, but 2019 was truly one for the record books with nearly 50% jump over the previous year. According to the State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities report, the number of vulnerabilities jumped from 4,100 in 2018 to 6,100 in 2019.
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Jitsi Meet is a videoconferencing application with handy features like the ability to password-protect your meetings or kick people off a conference. But what sets it apart from most well-known videoconferencing services is that it’s free and can run entirely on your own hardware.
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