When my journey into the world of open source began in the mid-90s, the easiest way to get installation media was to buy CD sets from online stores and have them shipped to you. Being interested in experimenting with different operating systems, I always bought the giant bundle that included all the distributions. Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, SUSE, and several now defunct distributions were include for me to play with, but the bundles also came with installation discs for the various BSD distributions (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and later, OpenBSD).
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While digging through the Internet, we’ve recently found a new and powerful 64-bit expandable SBC (Single-board computer) called PINE64 that costs only $15 (approximately €14).
A few minutes ago, December 7, Mr. Linus Torvalds, father of Linux kernel, had the great pleasure of unleashing the fourth RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.4 kernel. Linux kernel 4.4 RC4 is now available for download from the usual places (see the download links at the end of the article), and, according to Mr. Torvalds, things are still calm and there’s nothing stands out.
The Linux Foundation hosts numerous Collaborative Projects — these are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development in an effort to drive innovation. For these projects, the Linux Foundation provides the essential collaborative and organizational framework so that participants can focus on innovation and results.
“To me, the Node.js Foundation is a way to join the efforts. Big companies, startups, contributors — the Foundation provides a way for us to collaborate and determine the project’s future, while accounting for as many views and opinions as possible. The project governance is really important to me; it was the reason for io.js to appear, and is the reason why it merged back with Node.js under the roof of Node.js Foundation,” Fedor says.
Since it was created in 1991, the web has been a democratizing force where anyone can setup a webpage (or blog, or ecommerce store), but these pages would be insecure by default. The theory was that security was something that users wanted from banks and eCommerce and perhaps their email provider, but not from regular sites. But the reality is that everyone should be able to access information without others listening in. And, critical security issues like session hijacking can only be resolved by securing sites’ servers. Over the next several years, we can transition to a world where every website is secure, and users can be confident that no one is listening in, changing or hijacking their communications.
Technology is fundamental to daily life, business and almost every occupation in our modern economy. Computer science education, however, is still often overlooked in K-12 classrooms. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there will be more than one million computing jobs by 2020, or an equivalent of a $500 billion boost to the overall economy. We need to do better to equip up and coming developers and IT managers for this future, a future that can bring much new innovation if we have the people to drive it.