April 5, 2017
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Google takes web security seriously. When the Google Chrome web browser encounters a payment site without Secure Socket Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption, it marks as insecure. Soon, Chrome will mark any HTTP site as insecure. That’s great, but just because a site is tagged ‘secure’ doesn’t mean it’s safe.
April 5, 2017
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Some of you may have been surprised when Canonical‘s founder Mark Shuttleworth announced Ubuntu Linux was ending its “investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell.” I wasn’t. Ubuntu had long been a cloud power and it’s been building its Internet of Things (IoT) reputation. Shuttleworth and his executives finally decided to play to the company’s strongest suit.
Ubuntu switches to GNOME desktop and gives up smartphone hopes
April 4, 2017
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For decades, the answer to the question “What’s the most popular operating system?” was Windows. You may not have liked it, but macOS, OS/2, Linux, you name it, couldn’t knock it off its pedestal. But, then along came smartphones and tablets, and PCs started their long sales decline. In March 2017, by web-analytics company StatCounter’s reckoning, Android became more popular than Windows.
Sorry Windows, Android is now the most popular end-user operating system. More>
April 3, 2017
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Worried about your ISP? Is someone on your coffee shop’s Wi-Fi? Or is Joe A Hacker bugging your internet? A virtual private network (VPN) can help protect your privacy.
March 31, 2017
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Many people can talk a good cloud game, but when it comes to building cloud applications, it’s another matter.
That’s why the Cloud Foundry Foundation and The Linux Foundation is creating a cloud developer education and certification initiative: The “Cloud Foundry Certified Developer” program.
In a recent survey, the Cloud Foundry Foundation found that “64% of IT professionals and executives agree that the developer shortage is a real threat.”
March 31, 2017
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The popular big data program Apache’s Hadoop is difficult to use. Indeed, Datanami, an important big data publication, recently found that “the Hadoop dream of unifying data and compute in a distributed manner has all but failed in a smoking heap of cost and complexity”. One reason? “It’s just a very complicated stack to build on.”
One answer: Educate developers. That’s where The Linux Foundation comes in with its latest massive open online course (MOOC): LFS103x — Introduction to Apache Hadoop.