50 Open Source Tools Tech Companies Love

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February 25, 2016

Over the last decade or so, many technology companies have begun embracing open source. Many use open source tools to run their own IT infrastructure and websites, some offers products and services related to or built on open source tools, and some are contributing to or supporting open source projects.

A 2015 survey from Black Duck found that 78 percent of organizations use open source software, almost twice as many as said the same thing in 2010. In addition, 88 percent said they expect to increase their contributions to open source projects over the next few years, and 66 percent said they consider open source options before they consider proprietary software.

This month we’re featuring some of the open source projects that have gotten the most love from tech firms. These are primarily enterprise-focused applications in categories like big data, cloud computing, development tools, systems administration and version control.

Google’s Project Shield Defends Small Websites from DDoS Bombardment

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The Linux Foundation

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February 25, 2016

Google’s Project Shield is aiming to protect news reporting and free expression on the web, and has opened itself up to applications for free protection from DDoS attacks.

DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, as you’re likely aware, involve the flooding of the victim with huge amounts of traffic from many sources that overwhelms and takes the site down. They can often be used as a crude form of censorship by those with an axe to grind against a particular website’s viewpoint, which is why Google is making Project Shield available to protect news sites and human rights sites (along with election monitoring websites).

Tor Users Are Actively Discriminated Against by Website Operators

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The Register

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February 25, 2016

tor Computer scientists have documented how a large and growing number of websites discriminate against people who browse them using Tor.

Tor is an anonymity service that is maintained with assistance from the US State Department and designed in part to allows victims of censorship in countries like China and Iran to surf the web. New research show how corporations are discriminating against Tor users, in some cases partly because it’s harder to classify anonymous users for the purpose of pushing ads at them. Many websites block access from the Tor network, either deliberately or because they are reacting to malicious traffic originating from the Tor network.

OPEN-O Promises Open Source NFV and SDN for Telecoms

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The VAR Guy

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February 25, 2016

The Linux Foundation and industry partners have launched another collaborative project to advance open source software-defined networking (SDN) technology. Called OPEN-Orchestrator (OPEN-O), the initiative will focus on the telecom industry.

The Linux Foundation’s OpenDaylight project, which was founded in spring 2013, has already been working for some time to develop an open source SDN and NFV platform than can serve the open source community as a whole. OPEN-O will complement that effort by creating SDN solutions tailored to carrier networks.

Sony Brings Support for Open Xperia Devices in Linux Kernel

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Softpedia

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February 25, 2016

linux-kernel-experia-devices Sony is trying to convince the community that their open Xperia devices can be used in a number of interesting ways, and they are adding support for them in the mainline Linux kernel.

Sony seems to be one of the few companies that actually care about open source and what happens with its devices. … As you can imagine, not all of the Sony devices are open, but there are plenty of them, some of which are really new like Xperia Z5, Xperia Z3+, and many others. In any case, Sony is now pushing patches into the Linux kernel, which greatly enhances the access of developers to the hardware.

How To Add Open Source Experience to Your Resume

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OpenSource.com

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February 25, 2016

lightning-test In this article, I’ll share my technique for leveraging open source contributions to stand out as a great candidate for a job in the technology field.

No goal can be accomplished without first being set. Before jumping into a new commitment or spending the evening overhauling your resume, it pays to clearly define the traits of the job you’re seeking. Your resume is a piece of persuasive writing, so you have to know your audience for it to reach its full potential.

Japan Mulls Over Bitcoin as a Legal Currency

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ZDNet

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February 25, 2016

If Bitcoin should be made into a legal currency, the ramifications over the change will be huge for banks, businesses, and users.

Japan is debating changes to make the virtual currency Bitcoin legal tender, a move which could change the future of the cryptocurrency in the country. The country’s current governors, the Liberal Democratic party, is planning to propose changes to the legal system which would define virtual currency such as Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Litecoin as official tender.

This means that cryptocurrency will no longer be placed under the banner of a commodity. Instead, a new definition would consider virtual currencies as “a medium of exchange,…

ownCloud 9.0 to Feature Private and Secure Video Calls, Thanks to Spreedbox

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Softpedia

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February 25, 2016

owncloud-9-spreedbox Founder, maintainer, and CTO of ownCloud, Frank Karlitschek, was happy to inform the world that the upcoming ownCloud 9.0 self-hosting cloud server will implement a free and secure WebRTC teleconferencing system based on Spreed.

As usual, we were very curious to find out what’s the fuss all about, and to our surprise, we found out that Spreed will, in fact, bring private and secure video calls to ownCloud 9.0, which should hit the streets in a few weeks from today, based on Spreedbox.

Calamares 2.0 Distribution-Independent Installer Released

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Phoronix

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February 25, 2016

Calamares 2.0 was released today as the newest major release of this distribution-independent, open-source installer framework. Calamares continues to be used by Manjaro, Sabayon, Netrunner, and other Linux distributions while with Calamares 2.0 there is even more features and functionality.

Java Finally Gets Microservices Tools

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InfoWorld

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February 25, 2016

Lightbend, formerly known as Typesafe, is bringing microservices-based architectures to Java with its Lagom platform.

Due in early March, Lagom is a microservices framework that lightens the burden of developing these microservices in Java. Built on the Scala functional language, open source Lagom acts as a development environment for managing microservices. APIs initially are provided for Java services, with Scala to follow.