Purism’s Librem Server Is Now Generally Available

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December 18, 2019

Purism has announced the general availability of Librem Server, its first enterprise offering to secure server environments for businesses. Librem Server has already been successfully in use by established business customers for the past year that serve important clients such as Boeing, GE, NASA and Toyota.

Librem Server comes bundled with Pureboot, Purism’s complete secured boot process with a neutralized and disabled Intel Management Engine, coreboot BIOS replacement and BIOS, kernel and boot tamper detection.

[Source: TFiR]

The 10 Hottest New Open-Source Technologies And Tools of 2019

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 18, 2019

The open source movement is a leading driver of technological innovation in the cloud era, delivering a seemingly endless chain of new projects that help organizations adopt cloud-native application architectures and methods. The magic of open source is that its methodology enables and encourages industry giants, solo developers and innovative startups to all cooperate in pursuit of a common technological vision to the benefit of a vast user base.

Through open projects, those entities find common ground, leading to them complementing each other’s work to build and promote code that solves real-world enterprise problems in a cost-effective and scalable manner. Click the link below to know about 10 open source projects that changed the game in 2019…

[Source: CRN]

Canonical Wants the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Installer to Be Faster, Comfortable

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 18, 2019

Canonical has laid down their plans for the Ubuntu Server installer for the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series. During the development cycle of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS operating system, which should debut in late April 2020, Canonical wants to make the Ubuntu Server installer faster and more comfortable for its server users by dropping support for the Debian-installer based classic server installer and replacing it with their more modern, in-house built subiquity server installer.

[Source: Softpedia]

Wipro Recognized As 2019 SUSE Global System Integrator Partner Of The Year

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 17, 2019

Wipro Limited has won the ‘2019 SUSE Global System Integrator Partner of the Year’ award for its collaboration and excellence in adoption of SUSE open source technologies to drive digital transformation for customers. The IT firm won the award in two categories: Most Innovative Solution and Most Technical Certifications.

Wipro develops solutions leveraging SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE CaaS Platform and SUSE Cloud Application Platform for open and cost-effective software-defined infrastructure.

[Source: TFiR

Linux Foundation’s DENT To Create Network OS For Disaggregated Network Switches

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 17, 2019

With an aim to simplify enterprise edge networking software, Linux Foundation has launched a new open source project called DENT. The project will help in the creation of Network OS for Disaggregated Network Switches in campus and remote enterprise locations. Linux Foundation expects DENT to unify silicon vendors, ODMs, SIs, OEMs, and end users across all verticals and enable the transition to disaggregated networks.

The initial use case will focus on the retail industry with premier members including Amazon, Cumulus Networks, Delta Electronics Inc, Marvell, Mellanox, Wistron NeWeb (WNC).

[Source: TFiR]

BTCPay Server Is Bitcoin’s Open-Source Unicorn

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 17, 2019

At the beginning of December 2019, Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase and a co-founder of Coin Center, listed Bitcoin as the most successful unicorn of the 2010s. Bitcoin is not a company — as many snarky commentators were quick to point out. But they’re missing the point, Srinivasan protested. Speaking from an investment standpoint, “nothing else founded in the same timeframe held at $100B for a longer time” than bitcoin, he tweeted, not to mention that the return on investment for bitcoin far exceeds the tech unicorns that Srinivasan said it eclipsed.

Viewed as an open-source unicorn, Bitcoin is ultimately a portent of a trend to come, Srinivasan argued: that protocols will compete with companies in the not-so-distant future.

[Source: Nasdaq]

Where’s our data, Google? Chrome 79 update ‘a catastrophe’ for Android devs with WebView apps

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 17, 2019

A change to the location of profile data in Chrome 79 on Android, the new version rolling out now, means that applications using the WebView component lose data stored locally. “This is a catastrophe; our users’ data are being deleted as they receive the update,” complained one developer.

Google said it has halted the rollout, which is estimated at 50 per cent of devices. The problem appears to stem from a change to the location of profile data in Chromium, the open source project on which Google Chrome is based.

[Source: The Register]

Benchmarking 11 Linux Distributions On The Intel Core i9 10980XE

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 16, 2019

If opting for a high-end desktop/workstation like the Intel Core i9 10980XE and even for smaller systems, your choice of Linux distribution can be a big factor in the performance potential out of the system. In benchmarking eleven modern Linux distributions across dozens of benchmarks, the performance difference can be more than 30% for the out-of-the-box Linux performance. Benchmarked this round on the i9-10980XE were multiple versions of CentOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstation, Manjaro, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Solus, and Ubuntu.

[Source: Phoronix]

Several Linux Browsers Blocked from Accessing Google Services

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 16, 2019

Google blocking Microsoft Edge from accessing its services is something that happened on several occasions in the last few years, but now it turns out that the search giant has turned the attention to a series of less high-profile Linux browsers as well. Users are reporting on reddit that a number of Linux browsers can no longer be used to log in to Google services, such as Gmail and Google Docs, with the error page indicating that the apps may no longer be supported.

[Source: Softpedia]

Israeli Startup Offers ‘Monetization Switch’ For Open Source

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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December 16, 2019

Open source software is free, or, more accurately, Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) is free of charge. In the real world, open source software projects when applied and deployed in commercial (sometimes mission-critical) use cases will often be supplied as the ‘licensed’ version of the original software innovation, which comes at a cost. Although many commercial use cases do deploy open source licensed software at zero cost, in these cases, it is not uncommon for commercial support contracts to be taken out. An Israel-based start-up is hoping to change the way some projects are run by offering a kind of changeable licensing switch system for open developers to use.

[Source: Forbes]