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Thursday, 18 October 2018 05:24
Open source thinking is key to improving the world, says GitHub
By David M Williams
Software developers have a responsibility to collaborate and build the future together, and open source thinking is the way to achieve it, says GitHub’s chief…
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Friday, 24 August 2018 10:36
New wave of Mirai botnet surfaces, leveraging Linux to target IoT
By David M Williams
A new wave of the Mirai botnet has been uncovered by Symantec, leveraging an open-source project that makes it more robust and compatible with multiple…
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The Linux Distillery
Red Hat is a successful, public open source software company. It’s the first open source company to crack US$1 billion in revenue and is closing…
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Saturday, 11 August 2018 10:53
Linux Foundation and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launch new foundation
By David M Williams
Open source software developers in the motion picture and broader media industry now have a natural forum in the Academy Software Foundation, a joint creation…
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Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:00
Red Hat OpenStack platform 12 imminent, paves way for Kubernetes in platform 13
By David M Williams
Enterprise Linux vendor Red Hat is poised to release its OpenStack Platform 12. It’s the first step in a longer vision to ultimately deploy via…
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Monday, 06 November 2017 10:30
OpenStack adoption surges, showing open source role in enterprise multi-cloud strategy
By David M Williams
Independent recent surveys conducted by five organisations demonstrate accelerated OpenStack adoption as enterprises increasingly favour multi-cloud strategies.
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The OpenStack Foundation today announced its plan to overcome what it says is the hardest problem in open source today: integrating and operating open source…
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CryptoAUSTRALIA is running a workshop on 5 July to help you build your own end-to-end encrypted chat server ... while you still can.
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Friday, 10 June 2016 15:05
iTWire shows Linux Australia the right way to host a server
By David M Williams
An iTWire article appears to have resulted in Linux Australia seeing the folly of not having proper arrangements in place for hosting its website.
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Monday, 16 May 2016 16:01
Linux Australia hosting woes to continue under current mindset
By David M Williams
Last month, the Linux Australia secretary, Sae Ra Germaine, posted to the publicly-available Linux-aus mailing list that the organisation's website had been disrupted due to…
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