Articles by Jack M. Germain

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Black Duck's Free Tool Digs Out Open Source Bugs

Black Duck Software this week released Security Checker, a free tool based on the company's Hub open source security solution Security Checker is a drag-and-drop, Web-based tool that allows users to determine if known open source vulnerabilities exist in the components used to build applications. It scans the code in an uploaded archive file or Doc...

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Rebellin Linux Offers Best of Both Gnome Worlds

Rebellin Linux is a smart-looking, fast distro that is both lightweight and secure. It is well worth checking out....

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Forked Debian Beta Is Rough Around the Edges

The Devuan GNU/Linux community's much-awaitedDevuan Linux Jessie 1.0 beta release is available....

Docker Ramps Up Container Security

Docker this week announced the rollout of security scanning technology to safeguard container content across the entire software supply chain Docker Security Scanning is an opt-in service for Docker Cloud private repository plans. It provides a security assessment of the software included in container images....

Report: Companies in the Dark About Their Open Source Risk Exposure

Commercial software is full of security vulnerabilities from unpatched open source components developers use, according to a reportBlack Duck Software issued last week Software companies misjudge how much open source code their commercial products contain, the report says....

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Vivaldi Browser Is a Breath of Fresh Air

The Vivaldi browser provides a refreshing approach to traveling along the Internet. It offers something beyond the same old thing in a different skin....

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Fedora-Based Sugar on a Stick Is One Sweet Desktop

The Fedora 23 Sugar on a Stick desktop offering is an unusually flexible computing desktop for children of all ages, school admins, and organizations looking for the best bang for absolutely no bucks on existing computer hardware The Sugar environment is both a desktop and a collection of activities or apps that involve user engagement. Activities ...

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Bodhi Linux 3.2 Promises Clearer Path to Enlightenment

Bodhi Linux 3.2.0 is an update to the Bodhi Linux 3.x series and features key kernel and desktop improvements....

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus Makes Its Debut

Canonical on Thursday launched Ubuntu 16.04, aka "Xenial Xerus," an upgrade that will be supported for the next five years The latest version for all desktop, server and cloud editions will be available for download starting Thursday....

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LXLE Gives Aging Hardware a New Lease on Life

LXLE is an ideal distro for out-of-the-box functionality to handle your everyday computing needs....

Hortonworks Ramps Up Hadoop Security

Hortonworks this week announced a series of enterprise security efforts to bolster performance and data safety with its Hortonworks Data Platform The company announced Tuesday thatPivotal Software will standardize on Hortonworks' Hadoop distribution. Hortonworks also will resell extract, transform and load tools developed bySyncsort....

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Robust New FreeOffice Suite Proves Free Can Be Just as Good

SoftMaker's FreeOffice Linux office suite is a LibreOffice look-alike that provides strong performance compatibility with Microsoft Office documents....

Volkswagen Picks Mirantis to Build Massive OpenStack Cloud

Mirantis on Wednesday announced that Volkswagen Group has selected Mirantis OpenStack to power its cloud applications The selection process involved a series of cloud-to-cloud performance trials betweenRed Hat and Mirantis, one of the last pure-play OpenStack companies that hasn't been shut down or acquired. It's ideally positioned to pursue and wi...

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Qubes' Xen-Like Security Requires a Leap of Faith

If you want an effective and different approach to computer platform security, turn to theQubes OS....

Ubuntu Goes to Microsoft's Windows 10 Bash

Microsoft on Wednesday unwrapped a major open source coup forCanonical when it announced that Ubuntu Linux will be able to run on Windows 10 Kevin Gallo, Microsoft's director of Windows developer platform, announced the development during a keynote address at Microsoft's Build 2016 conference in San Francisco....

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Apricity OS Is Clean and Classy

If you're looking for a quick, clean and classy Linux distro, look no further than theApricity OS beta. Either of the two available flavors -- GNOME or Cinnamon -- is sure to give you a pleasant computing experience....

Google Says Sayonara to Chrome App Launcher

Google on Tuesday announced that it was shutting down the Chrome app launcher everywhere but in the Chrome OS That means users who like to launch their favorite Google apps from a menu will have to settle for launching them only within the Google Chrome browser or through shortcuts in their bookmark bar....

Android, iOS on Opposite Sides of Encryption Divide

Consumers' understanding of what encryption does apparently doesn't determine whether they use the technology, with iPhone owners much more likely to use encryption than Android users Most Android phones are not encrypted, either by user choice or manufacturer design. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, about 95 percent of all iPhones...

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Remix OS Fills Android Desktop Void

The ability to run the Android OS as a fully functional desktop on PCs took a giant leap forward this month with a release that merges theAndroid-x86 Project with Jide Technology'sRemix OS distribution....

Microsoft Sees the Light and Joins Eclipse

Microsoft on Tuesday announced it was joining theEclipse Foundation as a solutions member Membership will enable the company to collaborate more closely with the Eclipse community, which has more than 240 members....

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