By Serdar Yegulalp In truth, 2016 wasn’t The Year of the Container. That was 2015, when the possibility and promise of containers came along and knocked IT for a loop. But not everyone …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: December 2016
Machine learning: From science project to business plan
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By Serdar Yegulalp 2015 was the year machine learning emerged from the academic closet. No longer was it an esoteric discipline commanded by the few, the proud, the data scientists. Now it …read more Source:: OpenSource
​CyanogenMod is dead. Long live LineageOS
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Cyanogen has switched gears, leaving the Android variant CyanogenMod in the lurch, CyanogenMod’s developers aren’t giving up. They’re forking the code into LineageOS. …read more Source:: Linux
Acer’s new Aspire C Series of all-in-one PCs offers Linux, FreeDOS options
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Available in 21.5-inch and 23.8-inch options with ultra-slim bezels, the all-in-ones can be purchased with either Windows 10, FreeDOS or Linpus Simple Linux pre-installed. Prices start at $449.99. …read more Source:: Linux
Exim gives Linux admins a security fix for Christmas
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid Linux administrators will have to change their holiday plans, because Exim is still releasing a security update on Christmas Day, and not earlier as had been hoped. An information …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat annual revenue grows 18 percent, misses estimates
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Red Hat continues to do well — but its revenue didn’t grow quite as fast as analysts had expected. …read more Source:: Linux
Donate here! 9 better causes than Wikimedia
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By Andrew C. Oliver It’s that time of year where Wikipedia activates those obnoxious ads. They’re even more obnoxious on mobile. They tell you that without your contribution, Wikipedia will go off the ‘net. Last …read more Source:: OpenSource
Live cell imaging using a smartphone
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A recent study shows how smartphones can be used to make movies of living cells, without the need for expensive equipment. The study makes it possible for laboratories around the …read more Source:: Science
A fertilizer dearth foiled animal evolution for eons?
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Earth was inhospitable to complex life for billions of years, practically suffocating evolution in a nearly oxygen-free environment. Then came a shift in phosphorus concentrations to ocean shallows, and after …read more Source:: Science
Why big brains are rare
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Do big-brained creatures steal energy for them from other organs or eat more to supply this expensive tissue? New work in large-brained fish suggests skimping elsewhere is not enough to …read more Source:: Science