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In San Francisco at Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced the release of the Red Hat Container Development Kit 2. 1 allows the user to make use of persistent volumes in order to persist data between restarts of pods, OpenShift or even the whole VM. 1 enables developers to use these in order to keep data between restarts of pods, OpenShift or even the entire VM.

In this article, I review some of the top open source business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools.

Microsoft — yes, Microsoft — announced at the DevNation conference in San Francisco that it’s releasing an open-source language server protocol. Microsoft, with Codenvy and Red Hat, have come together to support an open-source univeral bridge between programming languages and integrated development environments.

I first started developing software in the late ’90s and got myself a Borland C++ compiler, which I quickly realized was only really going to work on Windows. I also started participating in mailing lists, answering questions, and learning all I could about how this open source language was developed. Ultimately, I realized I wanted to develop software, and really wanted to develop in a native language where I had access to the hardware. It is now about nine years since I did that Google Summer of Code project, and I am largely using the same stack with some additions/updates to facilitate collaborative, open source, cross-platform development.

To no one’s surprise, Linux, is the top operating system for the world’s fastest computers, but many may be shocked to find China now has the most and fastest supercomputers. Say hi to the fastest supercomputer on the planet: China’s Sunway TaihuLight running Linux.

SoftMaker asserts that the myriad competing free alternatives often harbor problems opening the Excel, Word and PowerPoint file formats loss-free.

Parisa Tabriz, manages Google’s Chrome security engineering teams, and gave akeynote at PyCon US this year. Her talk was even-keeled, informative, and included strong FOSS messaging abouteveryone’s vested interest in internet security and privacy. After the talk was done, I watched her take audience questions (long enough for me to take a short conference call) where she patiently and handily fielded all manner of queries from up and down the stack.

Patton Opens Configuration WebWizard to Community Patton’s WebWizard for SmartNode and other Patton CPE simplifies and accelerates VoIP or broadband service deployment, while building community among users, network engineers, and support personnel. SmartNode™ VoIP…  more than just talk!   WebWizard Video GAITHERSBURG, MD, USA : Patton Electronics—US manufacturer of UC, cloud, and IoT enabling solutions for carrier, enterprise and industrial … Read More

Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said in an interview that he hadn’t planned on an announcement about Ubuntu’s new Snap app package format. But then in a matter of a few months, developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies announced they would use Snap as a universal Linux package format. Full story

New Features Server Backup Manager Now supporting XFS filesystem file and folder restores in addition to Bare Metal Restores with 100% compatibility with previously used Disk Safes. Updated Disk Safe format to improve reliability and performance of access to recovery point meta data. In preparation for more extensive UI improvements, the options in the Actions column in the Extended Server … Read More

Now, SUSE, a rival Linux power, is taking Red Hat up on this with its Ceph-supporting release of SUSE Enterprise Storage 3. SUSEIndeed, SUSE Enterprise Storage, a software-defined storage management program, is the first commercially supported solution based on the Ceph open-source project Jewel release.

PHP is one of the most popular programming languages around the world, and the recent PHP 7 release made this server-side programming language better and more stable than ever. Facebook, for example, utilizes PHP for maintaining and creating their internal systems.

Smartphone maker and display manufacturer Samsung is believed to launch a pair of smartphones in early 2017, each with a bendable OLED display. Codenamed “Project Valley,” the bendable smartphones won’t be Samsung’s new flagship devices, and are believed to be angled more as an experiment by the company to test the waters of user response to bendable screens. While not bendable, Apple’s 2017 iPhone is expected to pack in a curved OLED display with an edge-to-edge, bezel-free design, similar to that of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphone.

So how do open source developers and companies make money? Here’s a look at different open source business models, and examples of companies and organizations that have successfully endorsed them.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian 8 (codename jessie). The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short.