By Matt Asay Apache Cassandra is one of the world’s most popular databases… but for years was plagued by a somewhat fractured community. DataStax, long a driving force within …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Newly discovered comet is likely interstellar visitor
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•A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The official confirmation that comet C/2019 Q4 is …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft hosts first Windows Subsystem for Linux conference
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•Microsoft will be hosting a community conference on the Windows Subsystem for Linux and related technologies in March 2020. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft hires open-source veteran Stormy Peters to run its Open Source Programs Office
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•Stormy Peters, most recently a senior community manager with Red Hat, is now director of Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office. …read more Source:: Linux
So long, JCP: Eclipse has a new Java spec process in mind
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•By Paul Krill Through a new community process, the Eclipse Foundation seeks an open source, lightweight, code-first approach to evolving enterprise Java. The specification process and future revisions have to approved by the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Git might replace Mercurial for Java’s source-code management
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•By Paul Krill Developers participating in the evolution of standard Java may soon have a new source-code management system for the project, with the community set to investigate alternatives—including Git—to the current …read more Source:: OpenSource
The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point
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•By Matt Asay It was bound to happen. Kubernetes, so often held up as a paragon of community virtue, turned into a petty “more-open-than-thou” battleground between Heptio CEO (and Kubernetes cofounder) Joe …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source isn’t the community you think it is
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•By Matt Asay Name your favorite open source project, and the odds are good—very good—that a small handful of contributors account for the vast majority of significant development thereof. The odds are just …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Why containers will rule the cloud: the rise of Kubernetes
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•By Don Boulia Much has changed since the very first version of Kubernetes was released in July 2015. Over the past two years, the open community has made tremendous strides in …read more Source:: OpenSource
Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic’s low oxygen oceans
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•Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem into a stressed community inhabited by …read more Source:: Science