The Linux Foundation has announced a partnership with 3D Robotics to launch Dronecode: software that controls autonomous vehicles. The goal is to create a system to control robots for a variety of applications including search and rescue, agriculture, mapping, photography, and film. The Linux Foundation is getting involved because of the potential for integration with […]
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Amazon built their own IT infrastructure to support their online retail services that had high demand during a few times of the year, but sat mostly idle for the rest of the year. Through this, the company built their web services business model that allows them to sell their unused infrastructure. The Amazon Web Services […]
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Pinterest built their services on a number of open source technologies, including MySQL, HBase, Redis, Kafka, and Node. The company has also made some open source contributions back through their own projects: Secor and Bender, and they’ve recruited other companies to their open source projects including Airbnb and Uber. More from OpenSource.com
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Many open source projects fail simply because they didn’t develop adequate documentation, marketing, or communities. Communicating the value of an open source project is vital to establishing it in the market and storytellers play an important role in convincing others to use or get involved with the development of the project. Apache Storm and Linux […]
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Firefox OS is now available in 24 countries on 12 smartphones from 13 operators, a result of their aggressive expansion in emerging markets. India, Bangladesh, Japan, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Argentina, Germany, and Poland are among the many nations that now have Firefox OS smartphones on the market. The web-technologies-based operating system is designed […]
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Using open source in business is more than just adopting technology that has freely shared source code. It also requires a deep understanding of how to incorporate open source development models, how to build revenue streams in competitive open source markets, and how to interact with the open source community’s system of governance. The company […]
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Docker INC announced its second acquisition in as many months as buys Koality, a company that provides continuous integration services. CEO Ben Golub made it clear this acquisition was primarily about absorbing the talents of the company’s engineers and this move hints at Docker Inc’s plans to expand enterprise services. Koality CEO Jonathan Chu realized […]
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The AllSeen Alliance is an industry consortium working to develop open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT). They are currently assembling the Connected Lighting Working Group which will develop a framework that allows smart light bulbs to communicate with people and other connected devices. This has the potential to open up a wealth of […]
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Its been over three years since Facebook launched the Open Compute project, an effort to design and build large scale computing infrastructure that is efficient and low cost. The project is following an open development model that is similar to open source methodology where all IP is shared openly amongst participants. The community is currently […]
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Leslie Hawthorn is a community manager for Elasticsearch among other things, and she has witnessed, firsthand, the effects open source processes can have on a company. She has been heavily involved in open source, big data analytics and she believes open source processes will become much more ubiquitous in business over the coming years. More […]
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Cyanogen produces an open source alternative to Google’s Android that offers all open source applications rather than the proprietary Google apps that come standard on many Android devices. According to a report from The Information (pay wall) Google offered to buy Cyanogen, but was turned down by the owners because they are still experiencing significant […]
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Arduino has announced the upcoming release of Materia 101, a new 3D printer that is the result of a partnership between Arduino and Sharebot. Many people in the hobbyist 3D printing community have been using Arduino devices to power 3D printers for a while; this printer is powered by the Arduino Mega 2560. Technical Specs […]
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The choice of making a software project open source or proprietary has long-lasting effects on the type of software that is produced. A proprietary software project can lead to reliance on specific versions of dependencies and libraries, developers using shortcuts in order to produce features quickly, the use of highly customized build environments and tools, […]
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Elizabeth Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on OpenStack, and she has 8 years experience working as a Linux systems administrator. In this interview she discuses how HP works with upstream projects, the struggle many companies are having adopting DevOps practices, and her upcoming talk about open source systems administration at […]
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The openness and flexibility of Linux make it a great solution for educational settings. Students can be free to tinker with the tools they use and dig into the code to learn more about how their software is built. Additionally, Linux is ideal for systems administrators because it allows them to customize the operating system […]
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Linux has taken over many key segments of the technology industry, leading many to believe it has finally “won” the tech war. Its true that many companies have opened up to open source and have even begun contributing back to it, but there are still major gaps when it comes to consumer open source products. […]
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The Bourne Again SHell (Bash) is one of the most common utilities used by Mac OSX and Linux. Yesterday, a bug was revealed in this command shell that could potentially allow remote hackers to take over any system that listens for network connections over the web. This does not affect most everyday users of these […]
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Developing open source technology takes considerable effort and time, especially if you are working alone. Outsourcing certain tasks to others can be an effective method for producing work that is of higher quality much more quickly than you can do on your own. Here are a few areas that can be outsourced in the development […]
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Mesos – A cluster management tool designed to coordinate docker containers across a distributed system Sysdig – An exploration and troubleshooting tool for IT operations. Open Mirage – Operating system for constructing secure, high-performance, reliable network applications across cloud platforms. Kubernetes – Cluster management for containers. OpenPower – Joint effort led by IBM to develop […]
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The same technological trends that led to complex legal issues with file sharing in digital music and video are now beginning to emerge in the production of goods through the development of consumer 3D printers and other distributed manufacturing technologies. Organizations like PSFK Labs are exploring methods of improving the monetization of goods and services […]
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The State of Open Source: Android
A Giant is Born Andy Rubin founded Android INC in 2003. Originally, his plan was to create a camera platform that included a selection of third party apps, but this was ultimately expanded to include smartphones after concluding the digital camera market was too small. Google purchased Android in 2005 and went public with its […]
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Walmart has been a major backer of Hapi.js , a framework for node.js that allows developers to focus on producing reusable application code rather than building infrastructure. Walmart uses this software extensively in production environments and they have benefited from the open source community through early adopters that test the code and make it more […]
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During the Medieval era, guilds were a way for companies, individuals, and organizations to come together to develop best practices for their trade. James Pearce is the head of open source at Facebook, and he is looking to bring the guild model common in England to the open source tech industry in the US. He […]
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