OIN and OpenStack, X and Security, Docker and Mac OS X – Snippets
Linux patent pool now covers clouds: By deftly expanding the list of packages it considers part of the Linux ecosystem to include OpenStack and Red Hat’s OpenShift Origin, the Open Invention Network...
View ArticleOpen source is a development process too
A recent report suggests that Microsoft may open source its M# language upon its as-yet-to-be determined release date. M# is a language being developed in tandem with Midori, a research operating...
View ArticleLLVM 3.4, Arch 2014-01-05, Mirantis OpenStack 4.0 and Paper encryption –...
LLVM hits 3.4: The LLVM project’s compilers and more toolchain has reached version 3.4 and the announcement counts down the new features; Clang now has all of the working draft for C++1y standard...
View ArticleRed Hat’s inverse-acquihire of CentOS makes sense
Red Hat and the CentOS project join forces, says the Red Hat official news release, “to accelerate community adoption and innovation for next-generation open source projects”. CentOS’s own...
View ArticlePatch Tuesday coming, NTP DDoS here, Ruby 1.9.3 going – Security Snippets
Next Tuesday, Patch Tuesday: A friendly reminder that next Tuesday sees 147 Oracle patches (Java (CVSS 10),VirtualBox (6.8), MySQL(10)), 5 Microsoft Bulletins and Adobe Reader and Acrobat priority 1...
View ArticleRust 0.9, Node.js tech support and Koa for Node – Snippets
Rust hits 0.9: The Mozilla Rust developers have released Rust 0.9 and there’s a lot new in this release. A clean up of pointer types (handy guide here), an “Any” typing trait for on-demand dynamic...
View ArticleMemory and Rust, Byte memories, Self awareness and Ghost moving – Snippets
Rust memory explained: Nikolas Matsakis’s talk from linux.conf.au on the Rust language and memory offers some insight on the motivations of the Rust developers and how the Rust’s idea of ownership and...
View ArticleNode’s new lead, Windows security disappoints, TCL is 25 and Brightbox is dim...
New project leader for Node.js: Isaac Schlueter has announced he’s standing down from project leading Node.js and handing the reins to TJ Fontaine who’s been working as “the primary point of contact...
View ArticleSharper Dart, Righter JavaScript and MQTT reviewed – Snippets
Sharper Dart: Dart 1.1 has been released and sees Google’s JavaScript alternative running faster when compiled to JavaScript. Dart can be run as JavaScript or natively on its own VM, and while the VM...
View ArticleLinux 3.13 lands, Node-RED re-flows, FreeBSD 10 close, BBB-SDR challenge –...
Linux 3.13 lands: It took a couple of weeks longer than expected, but Linux 3.13 has been announced. KernelNewbies has their 3.13 summary up, or if you speak German, Thorsten Leemhuis has his What’s...
View ArticleOh hai there FreeBSD 10.0
Following up from the last post, here’s the FreeBSD 10.0 announcement. Listed highlights of FreeBSD 10 are – Clang is now the default compiler and GCC is no longer installed by default, unbound is now...
View ArticleArduino/Raspberry Pi UNITE!, Node’s power ups and web video’s next battle –...
Arduino and Pi Together At Last: The folks behind the fabulous BrickPi project have just kicked off a kickstarter for their next project, Arduberry. This time, they are making a board for the...
View ArticlePython 3.4 Betas and 3.3.4 RCs, UEFI bootsplaining and Bro pages – Snippets
Python 3.4′s last beta: Over the weekend, the last beta of Python 3.4 arrived. With two more release candidates and a final date of March 16, those interested should be testing now. The time scale was...
View ArticleScientific Linux, Bootstrap and all your base methods belong to Base – Snippets
Scientific Linux 6.5: Scientific Linux has announced an update to version 6.5. SL, as it is also known, is a Linux distro based on the sources distributed by Red Hat for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
View ArticleLibreOffice and Mercurial update while Firefox steps back – Snippets
LibreOffice 4.2: The LibreOffice folks have rolled out their latest release, LibreOffice version 4.2 which includes a decent selection of new features, with the headliners being improved OOXML...
View ArticleFacebook’s Conceal, Callback hell and a listening Pi – Snippets
Facebook’s Conceal revealed: Facebook have open sourced Conceal, a library for encrypting files on Android devices. The company uses the library for encrypting data that its apps store on SD cards. It...
View ArticleDocker officially for Mac, Tails fixes updates and CoffeeScript’s fresh brew...
Docker 0.8: As Docker, the application-packaging-with-containers platform, switches to a new release schedule, the first of the monthly releases has arrived and Docker 0.8 has couple of new goodies...
View ArticleFreeBSD’s Journal, FreeNAS updates, Arduino’s on paper and extra bits – Snippets
FreeBSD Journal Edition One: The FreeBSD Journal has published its first digital edition for iPad, Android and Kindle devices. With 6 issues planned for each year, a $20 subscription and an editorial...
View ArticleElasticSearch 1.0, TokuMX 1.4, Plan 9 GPLv2′d and Python 3.4RC1 – Snippets
ElasticSearch 1.0 springs out: The search-oriented NoSQL database, built upon Lucene, ElasticSearch has hit version 1.0. It’s a big release with a lot of changes and a lot of new features – an API for...
View ArticleNotified by mqttwarn, better Docker images, emulating a ship computer and...
mqttwarn: Don’t want to run Node-RED but do want to route MQTT messages around? Jan-Piet Mens may have the application for you in the Python based mqttwarn, a pluggable framework which can subscribe...
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