By Jim Lynch 8 great apps for the Chromebook Many people have discovered that a Chromebook can be a terrific replacement for a regular desktop or laptop computer. But what apps can you get …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: March 2017
Google ignites Python library for command lines
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•By Paul Krill With its Python Fire library, Google is offering Python developers a mechanism to easily generate command-line interfaces. Newly available via open source, Python Fire turns code into a CLI …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: The 20 most popular programming languages in 2017
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•By Jim Lynch 20 most popular programming languages in 2017 Developers have been blessed with a variety of programming languages to choose from over the years. But which ones are currently the most popular …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google Go’s popularity doesn’t translate to the enterprise
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•By Paul Krill Go developers have found plenty of uses for Google’s open source language both at work and at home, results of a recent poll by The Go Project reveals. But the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Dell doubles down on high-end Ubuntu Linux laptops
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•Developers know Dell has a great Ubuntu Linux powered programmer’s laptop, the XPS 13. Few people know that Dell also offers Ubuntu on its high-end Precision mobile workstation line. …read more Source:: Linux
Facebook’s new machine learning framework emphasizes efficiency over accuracy
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•By Serdar Yegulalp In machine learning parlance, clustering or similarity search looks for affinities in sets of data that normally don’t make such a job easy. If you wanted to compare 100 million …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: Is Chrome the fastest web browser?
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•By Jim Lynch Chrome: The fastest web browser for Linux? Linux offers a great range of choices when it comes to web browsers, there really is a browser out there for everybody. But which …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux distributions: Rolling releases vs point releases, which should you choose?
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•A brief discussion and illustration of the pros and cons of Linux release models, using hardware device support and the current kernel version as examples. …read more Source:: Linux
Out of this world! 5 stellar NASA software freebies
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Earlier this week, NASA opened up a bunch of its internal software to the public: physics simulations, operational management, embedded systems control, and many other tasks you’d associate …read more Source:: OpenSource
HackerOne opens up bug bounties to open source
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid HackerOne is bringing bug hunting and software testing to open source developers to help make open source software more secure and safer to use. A lot of modern tools and technologies …read more Source:: OpenSource