Thanks to a wave of engineering innovation to build and test new designs, a huge variety of different projects have sprung up to try and fill the gap caused by coronavirus. Some are seeking to create low-cost open-source designs while others are hoping to repurpose other devices into simple ventilators.
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The current explosion in remote and distributed work has focused a lot of attention on the capabilities of online video meetings platforms like Zoom or the one built into Microsoft Teams, as well as on the challenges of managing online meetings. Here are some factors you might consider in researching open source meeting tool options.
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Boston Dynamics has open-sourced some of its robotics technology to help protect healthcare workers battling the coronavirus. The robotics firm has developed a healthcare toolkit that it hopes will allow mobile robots to carry out essential functions that reduce the exposure of frontline healthcare staff to COVID-19.
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Canonical looks to extend its open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system deeper into the enterprise and cloud datacenters. The LTS variants of Ubuntu Server are meant to be stable variants that do not change as quickly as the regular release of the Linux variant.
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Purism announced the Librem Mini Linux PC only a few weeks ago, and at that time, the company set a target goal for pre-orders of $50,000. And now Purism says that demand has been so strong for its new Linux PC that it already exceeded the $50,000 target, with pre-orders currently exceeding $71,000.
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Linux Lite has released a testing version of their upcoming v5.0. The first release candidate (rc1) of Linux Lite 5.0 is the most feature-rich and complete Linux Lite release till now. So, let’s take a look at the list of new changes that’ll ultimately ship with final v5.0.
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As hospitals in US faced ventilator shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to companies utilizing their resources to manufacture ventilators, groups of engineers, physicians and other experts at universities around the country also banded together to figure out how to make or re-work ventilators — at a super low cost.
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Philadelphia-based Fishtown Analytics, the company behind the popular open-source data engineering tool dbt, has raised a $12.9 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with the firm’s general partner Martin Casado joining the company’s board. The company plans to expand the team from 25 to 50 employees in 2020.
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With big tech players like Amazon and IBM focused on open source as an enabler of strong cloud solutions, it may seem like the technology is limited to the big leagues, yet small to midsize businesses are slowly starting to throw their hats in the open source ring.
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