KDE developers have helped build a laptop designed to give users a headache-free Linux experience. …read more Source:: Linux
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IDG Contributor Network: Wine 2.0 released: Run Windows apps in Linux
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•By Jim Lynch Wine 2.0 released The Wine developers have been hard at work and now Wine 2.0 has just been released. This version offers thousands of individual changes, support for Microsoft Office 2013 …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Firefox 51 released
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•By Jim Lynch Firefox 51 released The Firefox developers at Mozilla have been hard at work on a new version of the popular web browser. Firefox 51 has just been released, and you can …read more Source:: OpenSource
Rust rocks, but wide-scale use remains years away
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Rust language has earned fans because it helps developers create software that runs with the speed and efficiency of C, but with fewer security and stability pitfalls. As the …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
Google open-sources test suite to find crypto bugs
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems. To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cloud convenience is killing the open source database
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•By Matt Asay Open source has never been more important or, ironically, irrelevant. As developers increasingly embrace the cloud to shorten time to market, they’re speeding past open source, making it even …read more Source:: OpenSource
Disney’s best releases may be its open source tools
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•By Paul Krill While most people associate Disney with Mickey Mouse, animation, and amusement parks, the company is forging a path in the open source software realm, encouraging contributions from its developers and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Rust language revs up compiler speed
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•By Paul Krill With the release of Rust 1.13, developers have improved compiler performance and security for the programming language. An issue remains, however, with code generation for ARM processors. For better compiler performance, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux developers under denial of service attack
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•The Linux Plumbers Conference’s internet has been slowed to a crawl. …read more Source:: Linux