By Jim Lynch Install LibreOffice 5.3 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS LibreOffice is one of the best office suites available, and now you can install LibreOffice 5.3 as a Snap app in Ubuntu …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: February 2017
Google breaks SHA-1 web crypto for good but Torvalds plays down impact on Git
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•Researchers’ SHA-1 collision spells the end of the cryptographic hashing algorithm for the web, but Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds says not to worry about Git’s reliance on SHA-1. …read more Source:: Linux
IDG Contributor Network: Every modern car is an IoT device on wheels
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•By Swapnil Bhartiya Ford Motor Company has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold member, which may make some wonder what an automotive company doing at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Android: Disable auto-play sound in Facebook videos
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•By Jim Lynch Android: Disable auto-play sound in Facebook videos Facebook is making a potentially very annoying change to videos on their social media service. Videos that load in your newsfeed will now play …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux’s decade-old flaw: Major distros move to patch serious kernel bug
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•Google fuzzer helps find 11-year-old memory-corruption flaw in the Linux kernel. …read more Source:: Linux
Recreating the PCLinuxOS Full Monty with KDE Plasma Activities
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•I’m a nostalgic type, so I decided to try to learn a bit more about the KDE Plasma desktop by creating an updated Full Monty installation of PCLinuxOS. …read more Source:: Linux
Netflix Stethoscope gives users a BYOD security checkup
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Medical professionals use stethoscopes to help diagnose problems inside the body. With Netflix’s newly open-sourced Stethoscope web application, users receive a security checkup for their mobile and computing …read more Source:: OpenSource
Build your own sharing system, with help from Google engineers
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Engineers at Google have unveiled Upspin, an experimental open source project for creating file-sharing infrastructure that works “securely, uniformly, and globally.” It isn’t yet competition for the likes Box …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Make Linux look like MacOS
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•By Jim Lynch Make Linux look like macOS The ability to customize Linux and make it your own is one of the best things about running it on a computer. Yes, it’s even possible …read more Source:: OpenSource
The best Go language IDEs and editors
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•By Martin Heller Google’s Go language was recently chosen as Tiobe’s programming language of 2016, based on its rapid growth in popularity over the year, more than twice that of runners-up Dart …read more Source:: OpenSource