Kubernetes Training and Certification Leads to a Consulting Career

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May 20, 2020

Leonardo Gonçalves da Silva had worked with Linux and open source for 20 years, including contributing to several projects. He was looking to shift his career towards cloud development based on Linux and the Kubernetes framework. He plans to use the scholarship to take the Kubernetes Fundamentals course to provide better service to his clients. In 2017, Leonardo heard about the Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship program and submitted an application.

Walmart made a $99 tablet with Android 10 and USB-C

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May 19, 2020

Walmart has released new versions of its Onn tablets, starting at $99 and including some uncommon features for Android tablets in that price range, as spotted by 9to5Google. The new Onn Tablet Pro comes in eight-inch and 10.1-inch models. Both variants run Android 10 and use USB-C to charge.

NVIDIA EGX A100 Is Powered By Ampere Architecture

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May 19, 2020

NVIDIA has added two new products to its EGX Edge AI platform — the EGX A100 for larger commercial off-the-shelf servers and the tiny EGX Jetson Xavier NX for micro-edge servers — delivering secure AI processing at the edge. The EGX A100 is the first edge AI product based on the Ampere architecture.

Windows 10 moves closer to ‘true’ Linux with graphical support for WSL2

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May 19, 2020

Microsoft is adding GPU and graphical user interface (GUI) support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, pushing the intriguing Windows feature ever closer to becoming a full-fledged Linux instantiation. The company announced the changes during its digital Microsoft Build 2020 event for developers.

Microsoft’s Fluid Framework is now open source, comes to Office 365

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May 19, 2020

For the first time, Microsoft is building Fluid Framework into a couple of key productivity apps, starting with Outlook and Office.com. In addition, the software giant is also open-sourcing the Fluid Framework and making the code available on GitHub within the next few weeks.

Struggling to write good documentation? Two open source developers weigh in

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May 19, 2020

It’s no secret that one of the biggest “bugs” in software engineering, particularly open source software, is documentation. Or, rather, the lack of good documentation. Talking to the founders of the fio and Datasette open source projects, some clues emerge as to how to quash that bug.

IBM launches Equal Access Toolkit to help developers build accessible websites and applications

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May 18, 2020

IBM has come up with a new open source offering and design toolkit that give designers and developers the tools they need to make their websites and applications accessible. The Equal Access Toolkit and Checker are tools for developers and testers to use to embed accessibility directly into their workflow.

D2iQ Launches $25,000 Shortcut To Success Package

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May 18, 2020

Enterprise cloud software firm D2iQ has introduced the D2iQ Shortcut to Success package for $25,000. The promotion focuses on empowering organizations to take advantage of the speed and agility offered by Kubernetes and shorten the time-to-value of projects by accelerating the journey to production.

Xs:code and Redis Labs team up to help open-source software developers get paid

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May 18, 2020

Xscode international, which does business as xs:code, is teaming up with Redis Labs, developer of the popular Redis in-memory data structure store, to provide financial incentives for software developers. Xs:code’s platform provides open-source software developers with a way to make money from their code by offering premium features and support.

Desktop Linux: Why open source is heading for a new breakthrough

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May 18, 2020

It’s been a long time since anyone thought Linux could seriously challenge Windows for domination as a desktop operating system. But that doesn’t mean that interest in having Linux on your laptop has entirely vanished. “It’s very exciting,” Matthew Miller, project lead for Fedora, tells TechRepublic.