open web

The folks behind postmarketOS want to develop a Linux-based alternative to Android with the goal of providing up to 10 years of support for old smartphones.

In return, it will use data you contribute to improve machine learning across its products.

With GDPR quickly approaching, Hackolade has announced its Command Line Interface (CLI) to help companies with the pending GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) regulatory compliance (scheduled for May 25, 2018), along with overall corporate data governance needs.

The latest OpenAPI specification has been released to advance the Linux Foundation project’s goal of providing a foundation to developers building interoperable APIs.

CoreOS and the Open Container Initiative on Wednesday introduced image and runtime specifications largely based on Docker’s image format technology.

A fairly popular operating system with in-the-know Linux users (that doesn’t get enough attention) is Mageia.

ZFS should have been great, but I kind of hate it: ZFS seems to be trapped in the past, before it was sidelined it as the cool storage project of choice; it’s inflexible; it lacks modern flash integration; and it’s not directly supported by most operating systems.

While it is never suggested to use a pre-release operating system for anything other than testing, at no point did there were any apparent bugs.

Today, Microsoft releases yet another open source tool — Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino.

Today, Linux Mint 18.2 achieves stable release. While the usual desktop environments, Cinnamon and Mate, are available immediately, so too are both KDE and Xfce. It is nice to see all four of these flavors released at once, as sometimes the Mint Team opts to stagger them.