Forbes and CenturyLink business, important magazines dedicated to business and targeting high level executives, make a recall at what is open source and why it is so rumored, especially from the last year on. Started as “geek’s stuff” and “not really professional”, things have changed so much, and also “not tech” world is recognizing it:…
A new Debian linux distro fork risks to be as important as Ubuntu was, a few years ago. As linux-addicted users know very well, from the last year many distribution, especially dedicated to general purpose users, moved to using “systemd” init daemon. “Systemd” is a suite of system management daemons, libraries and utilities aiming at…
Everyone is following us on Open-Electronics.org knows about RandA solution, the best matching between the two worlds of Arduino on one side and of Raspberry on the other. Here we’ve published a post explaining the full potential of this solution: Learning How to Use the RandA Board. The new version of RandA software is coming,…
Ubuntu is coming to drones, robots and smart homes. The smallest version of the Ubuntu operating system, Snappy Ubuntu Core, is now opening up to smart devices and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Builders of drones, robots and smart-home kit will be able to develop, simulate and run their devices using the software, with…
Pivotal is releasing its data lake architecture components, including Greenplum DB, GemFire and HAWQ, to the open source community: “Last spring, Pivotal unveiled its Pivotal Big Data Suite, a subscription-based software, support and maintenance package that bundled its big data components into a single, simple licensing structure. The Big Data Suite was responsible for $40…
In 2007 former Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson built a Lego mindstorms robot with his kids in an effort to get them interested in science. Two years later he founded 3DRobotics, now the largest personal drone company in North America. On a recent keynote, he declared interesting concepts about drones and open source: “Drones aren’t…
Last 10th of February, 3D Robotics launched on Play Store their app to control copter and plane drones, Droidplanner: “3D Robotics, the largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer, announced the launch of its open-source Tower flight control app for drone copters and planes on Android phones and tablets. The app gives users a few new ways to…
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) serves as an international nexus of trust, protecting and promoting open source software as well as the communities that develop and depend on it. Primarily known for our work in certifying open source software licenses, the OSI’s work today has grown—just as open source has—to include a variety of member-driven…
Opensource.com published an update of their top open source project management tools review, including new tools available in 2015: “Last year, I covered five of the best open source project management tools, like ProjectLibre and OpenProject. The article struck a chord with readers and continues to prove valuable. So, this year I revisited the tools…
After almost two years of development, Arduino released its IDE 1.6. A lot of changes have been made thanks to the huge work of developers and, above all, thanks to the support of makers and passionate community that reported all the issues and, often, helped finding solutions. Among all…
Do you remember the Open Source Chromecast alternative Matchstick? They recently made a strong announcement, launching the dubbed “open source streaming platform” Flint! Matchstick announced Flint, the first open software and open hardware video-streaming platform created with Mozilla’s Firefox OS inside. Flint aims to deliver highly interactive streaming and screen-to-screen experiences including two way interactivity,…
Awesome project LibreCalc wants to create a Free (as in speech) calculator, made with free software, using free software, and released as open hardware: The second prototype took a little longer that we expected to be finished. We still need to do screen painting for the keyboard, and some software adjustment, and maybe paint the…
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