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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Facebook / OCP announced this week that with their Linux firmware they have been able to boot up a server powered by an Intel Xeon Scalable processor as an experiment. Facebook refers to this as the Open System Firmware (OSF) approach.
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Normally, if you have to open an image, video, text or any other file, you double click. If you single click, the file is selected and some information is shown at the bottom. Here’s how to enable single click for file opening in Nautilus.
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Open source analysis gives you visibility into your open source code. It is a multifaceted approach to managing the open source components that make up your enterprise’s codebase. By giving you a more granular view into your codebase, it helps you identify the provenance of your open source components.
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Telecoms need a data platform that can support the heavy demands users will place on their mobile networks, especially as they come to embrace the greater speeds and better quality of 5G. And these platforms need to have open source at their core.
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