Favourite blogging tool now ready for hacking – but cross platform will not be easy
Microsoft has released Windows Live Writer, a popular blog authoring tool, as an open source project on GitHub, under the MIT licence. The original Live Writer was developed by a company called Onfolio, founded by JJ Allaire when he left Allaire Corporation, the business he founded with his brother Jeremy to create web development tools including ColdFusion and JRun.
This week in Linux news, the Linux Foundation and Microsoft work together on the Azure certification, 2015 wasn’t the year for the Linux smartphone, and more. Get up to speed with the latest Linux news with our weekly digest.
1) Linux Foundation and Microsoft are now offering a Linux on Azure certification.
Not a Typo: Microsoft is Offering a Linux Certification– ZDNet
2) A recent announcement from Mozilla makes year look bleak for Linux smartphones
Linux Smartphones Took a Serious Step Back in 2015– NetworkWorld
3) The new Linux Mint ‘Rosa’ focuses on the desktop experience.
Linux Mint 17.3 ‘Rosa’ Offers Linux Mint’s Most Polished Desktop Experience Yet– PCWorld
4) New Linux ‘Trojan’ malware known as Rekoobe is aimed towards Linux users known as Rekoobe.
Researchers Found Another Malware Targeting Linux Users– HackRead
5) The first-ever self-paced OpenStack administration course with labs on demand is now available.
Linux Foundation Self-Paced Course Expands Open Source Cloud Training– The VAR Guy
Audio and Video are two common sources of information sharing we see in today’s world. May it be publishing any product, or need of sharing any information between a huge community of people, or a way of socializing in the group, or sharing of knowledge (e.g. as we see in online tutorials) audio and video hold a great place in this highly expressive world which wants to share their ideas, prove themselves and do all possible steps which brings them in limelight.
Below is the list of some quality open source video players which are available on Linux.
Earlier this year, I wrote an article about how to use the Raspberry Pi to create a music light show using an open source project called LightShowPi. My little Christmas tree light show was popular enough that I was invited to demo it for a group of middle school kids in North Carolina.
Which brings me to this year’s Christmas season. I was flirting with the idea of taking the light show outdoors, but due to the business of life I just ended up not having enough time (or motivation) to make that leap. I did, however, put a bit of time into improving last year’s setup.
With a major breach at toy maker VTech and privacy advocates criticizing Mattel and Google, 2015 put a spotlight on the growing threats to children’s privacy.
On Nov. 14, digital thieves breached two services at toy maker VTech, compromising the company’s Learning Lodge app store and Kid Connect servers and accessing information on more than 6.3 million kids and their 4.8 million parents.While parents’ accounts included names, email and IP addresses, password retrieval information, mailing addresses, download history and encrypted passwords, most of the children’s data consisted only of their name, gender and birth date.
