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Embracing open-source to fill the IT skills gap

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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IT staff must be able to implement, operate and manage new technologies effectively to procure business benefits, yet a recent study found that 65 per cent of CIOs report IT skills shortages in their organisation. As well as this, the European Commission has conjectured there will be 756,000 unfilled jobs in the region’s information communications technology (ICT) sector by 2020.

As more businesses move online and data continues to underpin the modernisation of every industry, businesses lacking in IT professionals are at a major competitive disadvantage. But why is it so difficult to find tech talent?

[Source: ITProPortal]

Kubuntu Focus Linux Laptop Announced for 2020 with 6GB Nvidia GTX 2060, 32GB RAM

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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The Kubuntu team announced today in collaboration with Tuxedo Computers and MindShareManagement Inc., the upcoming availability of the first-ever officially recognized Kubuntu laptop, called Kubuntu Focus.

Targeted at gamers, developers, and power users, Kubuntu Focus comes with very powerful components and it’s ideal for those who seek performance and compatibility in a portable computer that comes pre-installed with the latest Kubuntu release, an official Ubuntu flavor featuring the KDE Plasma Desktop environment.

[Source: Softpedia]

LibreOffice 6.4 nearly done as open-source office software project prepares for 10th anniversary

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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The LibreOffice team is testing the first release candidate of version 6.4, which is set for release at the end of January. What’s new in version 6.4? There are numerous fresh features; most are small, but they do include the ability to insert QR codes into any document. The Generate QR Code feature lets you enter a hyperlink (or any text) and generate a QR code with four options for complexity. A low complexity is better for long URLs while high has better error correction if there are errors in reading.

[Source: The Register]

How to install and use Firejail on Linux

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Firejail is a Linux security SUID program that drastically reduces the risk of security breaches by sandboxing the running environment of untrusted applications. Firejail achieves this by using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf which allows the attaching of a system call filter to a process and all its descendants, thus reducing the attack surface of the kernel. Find out how to install and use Firejail…

[Source: TechRepublic]

NVIDIA Releases 340.108 Linux Driver Providing Updated Legacy Support For GeForce 8 / 9

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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For those still running a GeForce 8 or 9 series graphics card, you really ought to consider upgrading this holiday season. Even the cheapest of recent generation NVIDIA GPUs should deliver better performance and far better efficiency over those older GPUs, but in any case, NVIDIA released the 340.108 Linux driver as part of their legacy maintenance support.

The NVIDIA 340.108 Linux legacy driver update has better compatibility with the latest kernels through v5.4, various installer fixes, and a variety of other build-related failures to let this legacy driver continuing to run gracefully on the latest Linux distributions as we enter 2020.

[Source: Phoronix]

This DIY Linux-Powered Business Card With USB Port Costs Just $3

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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George Hilliard, an embedded systems engineer by profession, decided to make a barebones Linux board in a business card form factor. It is a complete, minimal ARM computer that runs customized Linux firmware built with Buildroot. This Linux-powered business card has a USB port in the corner. Hilliard says that the card takes about 6 seconds to boot after plugging into a computer. It shows up over USB as a flash drive and a virtual serial port that can be used to log into the card’s shell.

[Source: Fossbytes]

digiKam 7.0 Beta Comes With Deep Learning Powered Faces Management

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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The next major version of the digiKam photo management software, that is digiKam 7.0, looks promising. The digiKam Team has released their first beta with deep learning powered faces management. Since the algorithms used in background (not based on deep learning) were older and unchanged since the first revision, the team found them to be “not enough powerful” to facilitate the faces management workflow automatically.

The updated version makes use of the cascade classifier and deep neural network functionality of the OpenCV library to improve face detection big time.

[Source: TFiR]

4 predictions for Open Source in 2020

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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As a way of approaching software development, open source has been with us for decades. For over twenty years, organisations like the Apache Software Foundation have supported the development of open source software projects that led to new applications and online services enjoyed by billions globally.

However, what will happen to open source in 2020 and in the years ahead? Will the open source movement continue to support and develop software effectively, or are there future risks we need to address?

[Source: IDG Connect]

‘Cortex’: An open source platform for deploying machine learning models as production web services

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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If you are looking for a tool to deploy machine learning models as production web services, then ‘Cortex’ could be a good option to try. This open-source platform is an alternative to serving models with AWS SageMaker or creating your own model deployment platform over AWS services like Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and even open-source projects like Docker, Kubernetes, and TensorFlow.

[Source: MarkTechPost]

FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Switching Out The Linux Kernel For Hard Fork Of OpenBSD

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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In a rather unusual twist, the Hyperbola GNU/Linux distribution that is approved by the Free Software Foundation for being free software and making use of the Linux-libre kernel has now decided they are going to fork OpenBSD and become a BSD.

The Hyperbola developers allege that “the Linux kernel rapidly proceeding down an unstable path.” Most readers probably aren’t familiar with Hyperbola but it is GNU-approved for being comprised entirely of free software and using the Linux-libre kernel. It’s based on Arch and Debian while using OpenRC as the init system. But they now are unhappy with the path of the Linux kernel and want to pursue being a BSD platform.

[Source: Phoronix]

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