Tag: open source

WhiteSource Acquires Diffend to Secure Open Source Supply Chains
WhiteSource this week announced it has acquired Diffend as part of an expended effort to discover malware that has been deliberately injected into open source software by a contributor acting in bad ...

Is Open Source More Secure Than Closed Source?
There’s no getting around the fact that security is one of the most essential factors in day-to-day operations for most software developers. From proprietary code to sensitive customer data and everything in ...

11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021
DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the most well-loved DevOps tools available today. But, ...

7 Popular Open Source CI/CD Tools
DevOps is a software development strategy that incorporates agile practices for fast, efficient product creation and release. It focuses on integration of development and operations teams, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and automation ...

Gitpod Revamps Dev Automation Tool
Gitpod announced today it refreshed the dashboard for its namesake open source tool for automating the deployment of development environments, in addition to making Microsoft VS Code its default tool for editing ...

Torvalds’ Bug Warning is a Lesson for Linux Users
Linux does, occasionally, raise security concerns. While many users see it as the most secure, robust and versatile operating system available — that's this writer’s opinion, as well — security precautions still ...

AlmaLinux Foundation Delivers on CentOS Promise
A nonprofit organization launched this week to oversee future development of AlmaLinux, a distribution of Linux based on code originally contributed to the open source CentOS project. At the same time, CloudLinux, ...

Red Hat Survey Reveals More Confidence in Open Source
A recent Red Hat survey revealed how DevOps teams increasingly depend on open source to support their shift to cloud-native environments and digital transformations, and to maintain security in these highly distributed ...

Eclipse Foundation Creates Adoptium Working Group for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation announced today a working group that will establish a governance framework for an Eclipse Adoptium project that enables developers to download compatible runtimes based on OpenJDK source code. Members ...

Open Source vs. Proprietary DataOps
Core DataOps concepts are making their way into data engineering teams and, from there, into the broader enterprise. Data engineers are retooling how they create data products, and much of this work ...

Harness Revamps User Interface for CI Platform
Harness today announced it has updated the community edition of its continuous integration (CI) platform with, among other updates, a revamped user interface. Formerly known as Drone.io, the latest release also adds ...

How Open Source Software Powers Digital Innovation
Open source has permanently altered how we work and conduct business. Linux, and thousands of other open source projects and open standards, now dominate the software landscape, supporting emerging technologies like artificial ...