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The Open-Source Philosophy

Perficient

Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software – What’s the Difference? To thoroughly grasp what open source is, one should understand what it is not. Open-source software grants its users a degree of accessibility that is not possible through its proprietary counterpart.

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8 Most in Demand Programming Languages of 2021

The Crazy Programmer

Programming languages are constantly and rapidly evolving in the current world of technology. In this article, we will explore the top programming languages, their scope, market demand, and the expected average income when using these languages. The TIOBE index measures the popularity of programming languages.

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Linus Torvalds Biography

The Crazy Programmer

His Master’s Degree was awarded for work done on the Linux kernel, which is one of the most popular open-source operating systems today. Linux is an operating system developed by Linus Torvalds and released in 1991. In 1991, Linus wrote a text editor named vi (originally for UNIX systems).

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Red Hat Expands RHEL Subscription Program for Developers

DevOps.com

Red Hat is extending its developer program to make it simpler for both individual developers and small teams to access a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system subscription. These programs are launched in the wake of Red Hat’s decision to no longer invest in an open source CentOS Linux distribution project.

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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Tenable

Frequently asked questions relating to vulnerabilities in Apple, Google and the open source libwebp library. ImageIO or Image I/O is a framework that allows programs to read and write image file formats, including WebP. It is a part of Apple operating systems from iOS and iPadOS to macOS, and watchOS.

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Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language

DevOps.com

Linus Torvalds today told attendees of the Open Source Summit Europe conference today that he is hopeful the foundational work needed to add support for the Rust programming language will be laid in a forthcoming version 6.1 of the Linux operating system.

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Stackblitz raises $7.9M to bring a better IDE to your browser

TechCrunch

The code editor is powered by a pared-down version of Visual Studio Code, but it’ll soon run a full extensible version of Microsoft’s open-source code editor in the browser that will remove the limitations of today’s StackBlitz editor. “It’s super unreliable,” said Simons.