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VMware Wraps Up 2019 With Pivotal Acquisition

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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(C) SDX Central

VMware has wrapped up 2019 with the addition of Pivotal to its ever growing family. One of the largest contributors to Kubernetes, and an emerging open source company, VMware has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Pivotal for $2.7 billion.

“It’s my pleasure to announce Ray O’Farrell as the leader of VMware’s new Modern Applications Platform business unit—uniting the Pivotal and VMware Cloud Native Applications teams,” said Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. “And as Pivotal is now part of VMware, I want to thank the Pivotal leadership team for building a great company. Together, we’re poised to be the leading enabler of Kubernetes with a deep understanding of both operators and developers.”

With this acquisition, VMware gets ownership of one of the most dominant open source based product – Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

It also establishes VMware as a leading open source player. The company is already the 3rd largest contributor to Kubernetes, and with Pivotal it becomes the largest contributor to Cloud Foundry.

Along with Heptio and Bitnami, Pivotal will benefit from VMware’s growing cloud ambitions which were put on the fast track with the announcement of Tanzu portfolio earlier this years.

Edward Hieatt, Senior Vice President, Customer Success, Pivotal. “The combination of Pivotal and VMware offers the most comprehensive application platform in the industry and is a win for our customers, a win for Pivotal, and a win for VMware. We’re excited to team up with VMware to help more enterprises become like modern software companies by adopting DevOps and Lean techniques developed by internet giants and the startup community.”

5 open source innovation predictions for the 2020s

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Open source played a significant role in software development over the past decade from containers to microservices, blockchain and serverless. Chris Ferris, chief technology officer of Open Technology at IBM, discusses some of the open source trends from the past decade and what to expect in 2020 and beyond.

The concepts of containers and microservices were merely concepts before 2010, Ferris said. Then Docker launched in 2013, planting the early seeds of the container industry. At the same time, microservices — and the technologies to make them possible — were borne in open source through the Netflix OSS project.

[Source: TechRepublic]

How to install GIMP on Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Linux Mint is a great operating system, but with the most recent version (19.3 “Tricia”), there was some shocking news — GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) was being removed! Of all of the great software available for Linux, isn’t GIMP one of the best? It is an essential image editing tool that rivals Adobe Photoshop.

So, why did Linux Mint remove it as a pre-installed program? The developers thought the software was too advanced for newer Linux users. While I think that is a bit of nonsense, I can understand why the Mint developers would want to cater to beginners. Thankfully, it is totally easy to install GIMP on a new Linux Mint 19.3 installation.

[Source: BetaNews]

Linux and open-source rules: 2019’s five biggest stories show why

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Let’s take a look at 2019’s biggest Linux and open stories…

1. IBM buys Red Hat for $34-Billion

Exhibit number one is IBM acquiring Red Hat in the biggest software company acquisition ever. True, IBM was one of Linux’s earliest supporters and, as I predicted, rather than IBM consuming Red Hat, Red Hat has remained an independent barony in Big Blue’s corporate kingdom. But, the bottom line remains: The world’s leading Linux company now belongs to the company number 34 on the Fortune 500.

Read on for more…

[Source: ZDNet]

Zcoin’s Receiver Address Privacy (RAP) To Go Live Soon

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Zcoin, an open-source, decentralized privacy coin, has released Receiver Address Privacy (RAP) on a desktop wallet. According to Zcoin, RAP is an implementation of Reusable Payment Codes (BIP47) originally proposed by Justus Ranvier, which enables users to share a single permanent address publicly without leakage of privacy. It is said to work together with Zcoin’s Sigma privacy protocol to offer a complete solution for both sender and receiver privacy.

RAP is fully implemented and undergoing code review. It will go live on Zcoin’s network by the end of January next year.

[Source: TFiR]

The best free and open-source alternatives to Google Calendar on Android

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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If you’re looking for something more privacy-conscious, or if you just want to see what independent Android app developers are up to, we’ve compiled some of the best open-source calendar apps for Android right here. When I asked social media for open-source alternatives to Google apps, the Simple Mobile Tools series of applications was brought up by many. Primarily developed by Slovakian-based Tibor Kaputa, Simple Mobile Tools is a suite of productivity apps that mirrors the ecosystems you get from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Apple.

[Source: Android Police]

One Of The Reasons Why Linux 5.5 Can Be Running Slower

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Going back to the start of December with the Linux 5.5 merge window we have encountered several significant performance regressions. Over the weeks since we’ve reproduced the behavior on both Intel and AMD systems along with large and small CPUs. Following some holiday weekend bisecting fun, here is the cause at least partially for the Linux 5.5 slowdowns.

On a number of different systems this month we’ve seen several regressions in real-world workloads like NPB and Parboil, PostgreSQL, Memcached, RocksDB, and also synthetic tests like the Hackbench scheduler benchmark. Worth noting, as to be explained, all these systems were running Ubuntu Linux.

[Source: Phoronix]

DragonBox Pyra prototypes begin shipping

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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The DragonBox Pyra is a handheld computer with a 5 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard and a built-in gamepad. It’s designed to run free and open source software, and it’s been under development for more than six years… and after all that time, project leader Michael Mzorek (EvilDragon) has finally begun shipping prototypes to customers who placed pre-orders for pre-production hardware.

Pyra-handheld forum member Grench ordered one of the first prototypes almost three years ago. He received it last week. Read on to know initial impressions…

[Source: Liliputing]

There’s Money To Be Made In Taming Open Source Software Code

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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“We’re trying to create order out of chaos,” CEO Wayne Jackson of Sonatype told Forbes. By chaos, Jackson is referring to the avalanche of open source software code out there that’s used anonymously for some very important projects. GitHub.com alone hosts some 40 million developers, he pointed out.

“We are building the world’s critical infrastructure on software somebody else wrote, a stranger with unknown skills, motivations and desires, but the desire to innovate is so high, we’re willing to accept the risk of using some random person’s software invention,” Jackson said.

[Source: Forbes]

36C3: Open Source Is Insufficient To Solve Trust Problems In Hardware

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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With open source software, we’ve grown accustomed to a certain level of trust that whatever we are running on our computers is what we expect it to actually be. Thanks to hashing and public key signatures in various parts in the development and deployment cycle, it’s hard for a third party to modify source code or executables without us being easily able to spot it, even if it travels through untrustworthy channels.

On his talk this year at the 36C3, [bunnie] showed a detailed insight of several attack vectors we could face during manufacturing. Skipping the obvious ones like adding or substituting components, he’s focusing on highly ambitious and hard to detect modifications inside an IC’s package with wirebonded or through-silicon via (TSV) implants, down to modifying the netlist or mask of the integrated circuit itself.

[Source: Hackaday]

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