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Use the Window Maker desktop on Linux
This article is part of a special series of 24 days of Linux desktops. Take a step back in time with Window Maker, which implements the old Unix NeXTSTEP environment for today's users.
Canonical adds ZFS on root as experimental install option in Ubuntu
Not ready for production yet, warns team, as it expands ZFS support
Canonical is expanding Ubuntu's support for ZFS, an advanced file system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.…
The Linux desktops last, best shot
With Microsoft cutting off support for Windows 7, the Linux desktop may finally get its day in the sun. But are Linux companies ready to take advantage of their opportunity?
Mozillas IoT relaunches, sun-based GPS, and more news
In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look open source projects from Mozilla, a tool for analyzing Flash files, an open source alternative to GPS, and more!
Taking System Monitoring to the Next Level: an Interview with Scalyr CEO Steve Newman
As computing ecosystems become more complex, monitoring and
analyzing those often disconnected moving parts becomes increasingly
challenging.
Linux-powered robot kit aims for sweet spot between pro and kid products
Vincross has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a modular “MIND Kit” robotics kit ranging from $89 for the Linux-driven, quad -A53 compute unit to $799 for a complete kit with servo controller, motors, battery, bases, sensors, lidar, and a mic array. Vincross, which was founded in 2014 by Tsinghua University AI scientist Tianqi Sun, went […]
openSUSE Announces Three New Tumbleweed Snapshots for 2019, Malware in Google Play Using Motion Sensors to Avoid Detection, Leaked Android Q Features, deepen 5.9 Released and ZFS On Linux 0.8 Coming S
News briefs for January 18, 2019.
5 open source resolutions for 2019
No matter how much of a cliché it may be, making New Year's Resolutions is hard to resist. There's something about the calendar flipping to a new year that causes even the most curmudgeonly, set-in-their-ways people to take stock of the year ending and make plans for improvements during the next trip around the sun.
To that end, here are my five resolutions for 2019. Some relate to my job and wider life, others to my place in the community, and I think each one will make the world a better place. Feel free to put any or all of these on your list of plans for 2019.
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Pioneers in Open Source--Eren Niazi, Part I: the Start of a Movement and the Open-Source Revolution Redefining the Data Center
The name may not be a familiar one to everyone, but Eren Niazi can be credited with laying the foundation and paving the way to the many software-defined and cloud-centric technologies in use today.
What Really IRCs Me: Slack
Find out how to reconnect to Slack over IRC using a Bitlbee libpurple
plugin.
The state of encryption: How the debate has shifted
Susan Landau, was a former distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and is now a professor at Tufts. I had an opportunity to check in with her?at a recent event in Washington, D.C.
Oracle open-sources DTrace under the GPL
Which makes lots of sysadmins' fave tracing tool cool for Linux
Oracle appears to have open-sourced DTrace, the system instrumentation tool that Sun Microsystems created in the early 2000s and which has been beloved of many-a-sysadmin ever since.…
A KDE Love Story: Translating Kalzium into Chinese
Today is "I Love Free Software Day"! We're celebrating by shining a spotlight on our contributors and on our collaboration with other FOSS communities...
Making open source evergreen
Danese Cooper is one of open source's strongest advocates, credited with advancing the open sourcing of technology at major companies including Sun Microsystems, Intel, and now PayPal, where she has served as head of open source since 2014.
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Sun set: Oracle closes down last Sun product lines
Officially, Oracle hasn't said a thing. Unofficially, if you count the cars in Oracle's Santa Clara office, you'll find hundreds of spots that were occupied last week now empty. As many as 2,500 Oracle, former Sun, employees have been laid off. Good bye, SPARC. Good bye, Solaris. Your day is done.
Astroplan Python library makes astronomy research planning easier
For some people, the darkness of the recent eclipse set off a light bulb. As millions of people saw the sun blotted out by the moon, many of them realized they're interested in astronomy more generally. Those people are in luck. A Python library called Astroplan can help them plan their observations.
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Oracle Wants to Open Up Java EE
Java Enterprise Edition could be leaving the tight control of Oracle and moving to an Open Source Foundation (maybe).
Akademy 2017 in Retrospect
The 2017 edition of Akademy was held in Almería, Spain. Starting officially on the 22nd of July and ending on the 27th, the weekend was dedicated to talks, as is customary. The rest of the following week, from Monday to Thursday, was dedicated to workshops and BoFs...
Akademy 2017 -- Day 1
During the first day at the Akademy, everything went according to plan and nearly everything was on time. Kudos to the organisers.
The weather was balmy at the beginning of the day and, although Aleix Pol said it was not hotter than a hot day in Barcelona, many of the Scandinavian and Scottish attendees were visibly wilting under the sun. Fortunately for them, the venue is equipped with air-conditioning...
How to Run remote ssh command in Linux to Show result locally.
In this article you will find the examples of how to run remote ssh command in Linux to Show result locally.
Oracle Migrates Solaris to Continuous Delivery Approach
If you were waiting for an Solaris 12 release, don't bother, there isn't one coming anytime soon
Network Monitor a full insight
Full compilation of the information required to understand a network monitor. What, why, when, how and where.
Microsoft partner claims Munich should switch from Linux to Windows 10
There have been stories recently that Munich, which has been using Linux for years, is considering switching to Windows 10. Who started these stories? Accenture, a Microsoft partner.
9 rules for the proper care and feeding of communities and carnivorous plants
In 2016, I adopted my first carnivorous plants, a Venus Fly Trap and a Pitcher Plant, which my Facebook friends named Gordon and Bananarama, respectively. I quickly discovered that the health of Gordon and Bananarama was closely connected to the environment I provided as much as to their ability to catch the occasional bug and get energy from the sun.
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Mozilla Hosts Seventh Annual MozFest in London this weekend
Join us at MozFest 2016 this weekend: Fri 28 – Sun 30th October 2016 Now in its seventh year, MozFest is the world’s go-to event for the free and open Internet movement. Part meeting place for like-minded individuals keen to … Read more
Mozilla Hosts Seventh Annual MozFest in London this weekend
Now in its seventh year, MozFest is the world’s go-to event for the free and open Internet movement. Part meeting place for like-minded individuals keen to share ideas; part playground for Web enthusiasts, MozFest is a buzzy hive of activity.
Enterprise Open Source Programs Flourish -- In Tech and Elsewhere
If you cycled the clock back about 15 years and surveyed the prevailing beliefs about open source technology at the time, you would find nowhere near the volume of welcome for it that we see today. As a classic example, The Register reported all the way back in 2001 that former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer made the following famous statement in a Chicago Sun-Times interview: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
9 Reasons not to Install Nagios in your Company
Looking for replacing Nagios? Are you assessing Nagios for your it monitoring? Then, I strongly recommend you to read this article
Linux helped me grow as a musician
In the early days of Linux it was possible to do high-quality audio recording, but it was often difficult to set up. Then Ubuntu Studio made it a lot easier.
Back in 2000-2002, after studying B2B marketing, I started to work at an engineering office. Aside from marketing and sales stuff, I was in charge of optimizing the number of workstations and licenses to match our real needs and cut costs.
We had many expensive CAD workstations that were mainly running Unix at the time, from vendors such as SGI, IBM, and Sun, with costly CATIA, Euclid, and Unigraphics software.
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ZFS: Finding Its Way to a Linux Near You?
It seems like only yesterday that I read Jeff Bonwick's blog entry
"ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems". It was Halloween of 2005 that
ZFS was fully integrated into Sun Microsystem's Solaris, and the filesystem
was very well received. For the readers not familiar with ZFS, it is a
combined all-purpose filesystem and volume manager.
My (email-) interview with Ian Murdock, from 2006
After reading the news about Ian Murdock’s death and the follow-up mournings of the greater Debian community I remembered that I actually met him, talked to him, and even email-interviewed him in 2006.
Debian Founder and Docker Employee Ian Murdock Dead at 42
The news of Murdock’s death was first made public in a blog post on the Docker website. When the page became unreachable at approximately 4:20 p.m. EST, there was a glimmer of hope that perhaps the report had been an error, as the post made no mention of a cause death, nor did it reference disturbing tweets on Murdock’s Twitter account on Monday. However, the page was back online by a little after 5:00 p.m.
Polishing cars wasn't in my job description
-"Whose turn is it to prep the JavaCar demo?" I asked my colleague. As I suspected, the answer was "Yours!"
However, I wasn't too disappointed, as I was happy to show off what my team at Sun Microsystems Labs had built. Our JavaCar was well ahead of its time—a vehicle testbed for in-car networking, telematics, and infotainment, all before those concepts existed in the mainstream.
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How to teach student sys admins
Several years ago, when I was working on my Master's degree in Library Science, I took a course on Unix (Solaris) system administration. The course was supposed to involve setting up a web server on a Sun workstation, starting with a fresh, bare-metal install of the Solaris operating system and building things up from there.
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Debian Project holds Sparc port's hand, switches off life support
No more support for bedridden Sun hardware going forward
Following years of waning popularity, the Debian GNU/Linux Project has dropped support for the Sparc architecture, effective immediately.…
Supreme Court Won't Hear Oracle v. Google Case, Leaving APIs Copyrightable And Innovation At Risk
This is unfortunate, even if it was somewhat expected: the Supreme Court has now rejected Google's request to hear its appeal over the appeals court decision that overturned a lower court ruling on the copyrightability of APIs. The lower court decision, by Judge William Alsup (who learned to code Java to understand the issues), noted that APIs were not copyrightable, as they were mere methods, which are not subject to copyright.
Supreme Court won’t weigh in on Oracle-Google API copyright battle
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Google's appeal of the Google-Oracle API copyright dispute. The high court's move lets stand an appellate court's decision that application programming interfaces (APIs) are subject to copyright protections. Here is how we described the issue in our earlier coverage:
Android's sun sets on Eclipse
Devs told to move to Android Studio
Google has decided Android Studio is all you need to make apps, and by the end of the year will no longer support the venerable but popular Eclipse IDE.…
White House sides with Oracle, tells Supreme Court APIs are copyrightable
The Justice Department is weighing in on the hot-button intellectual property dispute between Google and Oracle, telling the Supreme Court that APIs are protected by copyright.
The Obama administration's position means it is siding with Oracle and a federal appeals court that said application programming interfaces are subject to copyright protections. The high court in January asked for the government's views on the closely watched case.
The dispute centers on Google copying names, declarations, and header lines of the Java APIs in Android.
The Obama administration's position means it is siding with Oracle and a federal appeals court that said application programming interfaces are subject to copyright protections. The high court in January asked for the government's views on the closely watched case.
The dispute centers on Google copying names, declarations, and header lines of the Java APIs in Android.
Torvalds: decisions, decisions, top up sun tan or release Linux 4.1?
Open source overlords need a break too... but devs told to keep on testing
Work/life balance is important. But important enough to slow development of a tool on which a fair slab of the world relies every day?…
The Weather Company relies on Drupal to manage content
After helping to put the dot in .com by building and configuring enterprise class solutions with WorldCom as a Sun hardware and software engineer, Jason Smith went on to AAAS (The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the publishers of the journal Science) to direct the technical needs of the education directorate.
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Open source and DevOps aren't mandatory, but neither is survival
I can’t recall the exact time I learned about open source software, but I can certainly narrow down the place. I quickly realized how transformative it could be. In 1996, I was sitting in the tech support department of a large ISP that provided hosting and connectivity to the Fortune 1000. Most of our servers ran Solaris, floppy disks arrived via snail mail, and we applied security updates manually adhering to a regime of updates and invoices prescribed by Sun Microsystems. It was a huge change from my university career of dumb terminals and mainframes.
Linux and open source 2014: It was the best of years, it was the worst of years
There was great news and there was awful news in the world of Linux and open-source software during 2014.
Franklin Weng: The strength behind open source is the strength of contributing
This is the first part of KDE & Freedom, a series of interviews with people who use and contribute to FOSS in their everyday lives. Please consider donating to the KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraiser. We need your help!
Easy Watermarking with ImageMagick
Let's start with some homework. Go to Google (or Bing) and search
for "privacy is dead, get over it". I first heard this from Bill
Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, but it's attributed to a number of
tech folk, and there's an element of truth to it. Put something on-line
and it's in the wild, however much you'd prefer to keep it under
control.
How to install Tomcat in Ubuntu 14.04
This document describes how to install Tomcat in Ubuntu 14.04. Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat, formerly also Jakarta Tomcat) is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run in.
Five open source alternatives to popular web apps
Remember when Sun Microsystems proclaimed that "the network is the computer"? Many people guffawed at that proclamation. What was once a clever slogan is now a reality thanks to the proliferation of web-based applications.
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Google, Oracle Java API copyright battle lands at Supreme Court
Google is asking the US Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court ruling that said Oracle's Java API's were protected by copyright.
Google told the justices in a petition this week that assigning copyright to the code—the Application Programming Interfaces that enable programs to talk to one another—sets a dangerous precedent.
Google told the justices in a petition this week that assigning copyright to the code—the Application Programming Interfaces that enable programs to talk to one another—sets a dangerous precedent.
Open source history, present day, and licensing
This article is part of my talk, Open-Source Business Models. You can see the full transcript and the video of my talk on Heavybit.com.
My name is Marten Mickos and I'm the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. As Tom mentioned, I was the CEO of MySQL for eight years. I was de facto the only CEO that the company ever had from 2001 to 2008 when it was sold to Sun,?and?then one year at Sun Microsystems. I'm here tonight to talk about open source business models which is a difficult, complex, complicated nuanced topic that doesn't really allow itself to be structured and summarized, but I'll do my best anyhow.
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How To Install Tomcat On CentOS 7
How to install Tomcat on CentOS 7
This document describes how to install Tomcat in CentOS 7.0. Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat, formerly also Jakarta Tomcat) is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run in. Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page.
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