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What Is Open Source Software? Meaning, Working, Importance, and Examples

IT Toolbox

Open source software are programs whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute. Read on to learn more about open source software, how it works, and a few examples of such software. The post What Is Open Source Software?

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

CTOvision

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. For example, commercial enterprises could use it to quickly control, manage, and analyze the flow of information from geographically dispersed sites – creating comprehensive situational awareness. economic growth.”

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? A Beginning of Openness – Documented and Supported. A Milestone – Open Source.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. The open-source eBFP technology enables users to run code safely in the Linux kernel. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. At the eBPF Summit on Sept.

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Persistence, Programming, and Picos

Phil Windley

In it, r0ml argues that Postgres as a programming environment feels like a Smalltalk image (at least that's the part that's germane to this post). Although I didn’t make the connection until I watched r0ml’s talk, this setup hearkens back to the 1980s when Smalltalk (and Lisp, and APL) were programming environments with built-in persistence.