The deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward.
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Ruby on Rails, often referred to as Rails, is a popular open-source web application framework written in Ruby. It’s known for its simplicity and productivity, allowing developers to build applications quickly without sacrificing quality or scalability….
Waiting for pulling into the mainline kernel once Linus Torvalds is back online following Portland’s winter storms is the sound subsystem updates for Linux 6.8, which include a lot of new sound hardware support. Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai at SUSE describes the new sound hardware support for Linux 6.8 as: “Support for more […]
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This month’s newsletter will be one of our biggest ever! In October, our communities met in person at the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OSS in Shanghai, China. At OpenSSF’s Secure Open Source Summit in Washington, DC, we continued advancing important conversations to improve the security of software supply […]
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Want to thank the GNOME extension developers for their hard work? They now have the option to add a donate button.
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Open Mainframe Project announces Co-Located Events with IBM TechXchange in September and Open Source in Finance Forum in November SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2023 – The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, today announced the launch of the Call for […]
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The rise in cyberattacks and software’s critical role in our lives has brought to light the need for increased transparency and accountability in the software supply chain. Software distributors can achieve this by providing software bills of materials (SBOMs), which provide a comprehensive list of all the components used in a software product, including open […]
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Image “Open Source Utopia” by Jason Perlow, Bing Image Creator “Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections – and it matters which ones get made and unmade.” ¬Donna J. Haraway The body is the best and the only tool humans […]
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Following the precedent set by Executive Order 14028, security and compliance teams increasingly request software bills of materials (SBOMs) to identify the open source components of their software projects, assess their vulnerability to emerging threats, and verify alignment with license policies. So, we asked ourselves, how do we make SBOMs easier to generate and share? Read […]
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We are excited to announce the release of PyTorch® 2.0 which we highlighted during the PyTorch Conference on 12/2/22! PyTorch 2.0 offers the same eager-mode development and user experience, while fundamentally changing and supercharging how PyTorch operates at compiler level under the hood with faster performance and support for Dynamic Shapes and Distributed. This next-generation release includes a Stable […]
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Enterprise data centers continuously monitor network traffic to improve performance, provide better customer experience, and identify threats. All these appliances or tools require only a portion of the network payload to meet the monitoring requirements. Modern Network Packet brokers use “Packet truncation” technique to optimize the processing of network traffic which involves the removal of […]
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See Zephyr RTOS in Action at Embedded World on March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany SAN FRANCISCO, February 23, 2023 – Today, the Zephyr® Project announced that Blues Wireless, IRNAS, and Sternum have joined as Silver members just as the real-time operating system (RTOS) has hit widespread adoption in products. Members such as Google, Meta, Oticon […]
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5G has revolutionized the use of data services for mobile users worldwide, providing high data rate / high capacity, low latency, and massive connectivity. These characteristics of 5G have forced mobile carriers to increase their focus on ways to improve network service and their customer’s Quality of Experience (QoE). This requires sophisticated network monitoring to […]
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“January is Mental Wellness Month, and I think it’s the perfect time to talk about Neurodiversity. Simply said, neurodiversity is the difference among all of our brains, like fingerprints…no two are alike. Neurodivergency includes specific differences, such as autism, ADHD, anxiety or tic disorders (like Tourette’s). While neurodivergency is not a mental health or mental wellness […]
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By Richard Purdie Maintainers are an important topic of discussion. I’ve read a few perspectives, but I’d like to share mine as one of the lesser-known maintainers in the open source world. Who am I, and what do I do? I have many job titles and, in many ways, wear many hats. I’m the “architect” […]
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By Phil Odence Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) is a standard format for describing a software bill of materials that supports a range of use cases, not least SBOMs to manage security vulnerabilities. SPDX has been an open project under the auspices of the Linux Foundation for over a decade, all the time with the […]
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In 2022, the Linux Foundation, in collaboration with our community, engaged in new initiatives to secure the software supply chain, enabled innovations with social, economic, regional, and environmental impact, supported open industry standards, a…
Progress with the SPDX Python tools Discussions regarding the development and direction of the SPDX Python tools often happen in the weekly meetings or smaller rounds and are not always visible to interested parties. This blog post intends to fill this gap, providing a condensed version of what was done and what is to come. […]
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Do you have a place where you can learn from a group of very experienced software developers? If not, why not? What’s stopping you?
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