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OpenSource For You
October 2016 Issue
Vol. 5 No. 1
For U & Me - Interview
" Many developers using middleware now look towards open source"
"In a conversation with Jagmeet Singh of OSFY, Atul Saini, CEO, Fiorano, revealed how the enterprise software market is evolving, with a mix of proprietary and open source solutions, while middleware is taking new steps using community support. Edited excerpts..."
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Developers - Insight
MQTT: Get Started with IoT Protocols
MQTT is a machine-to-machine, Internet of Things connectivity protocol. It is an extremely lightweight publish-subscribe communication model, useful for connections in remote locations where a small code footprint is the order of the day.
| For U & Me - Interview
"Every open source project at Facebook is a little different"
Facebook is already leading the world of social networks. Today, it attracts extensive open source contributions from around the world. James Pearce, open source head at Facebook, highlighted some of the major projects run by the social networking giant in an exclusive talk with Jagmeet Singh of OSFY. Edited excerpts...
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Guest Column: Exploring Software
Linux on the iBall Compbook
Join the author as he describes the challenges he faced when he used a Compbook to replace his netbook and then tried to make Linux work on it. He ruefully comments, “Making Linux work on a system with a Bay Trail Atom processor is still a work in progress.”
| Admin - Insight
Is theCloud Safe and Secure?
The on-premise versus cloud data storage debate is an ongoing, never ending one. When deciding on either of them, the security of the data is of utmost consideration. There are many myths and fears surrounding cloud security. This article seeks to dispel them by clearly outlining the safety and security in cloud storage, compared to on-premise storage.
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Admin - How To
Setting up and Configuring ownCloud
This article introduces the reader to ownCloud, which is a free and open source private cloud platform to help you access, sync and share data.
| Admin - Insight
Kubernetes: A Portable and Scalable Orchestration Layer for Container Applications
Kubernetes is a production grade open source orchestration system used to deploy, scale and manage containerised applications. It is based on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week. Read on to know more.
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Admin - Overview
OpenNebula: A Free Solution for Building Clouds
OpenNebula is a free and open source software solution for building clouds and for data centre virtualisation. It is based on open technologies and is distributed under the Apache License 2. OpenNebula has features for scalability, integration, security and accounting. It offers cloud users and administrators a choice of interfaces.
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An Introduction to Asterisk
Telephone density in India exceeds the Internet density. Telephony, therefore, is a better means of reaching a targeted client. It certainly has greater advantages when reaching out to a largely illiterate clientele. Delve into this article if you wish to learn more about telephony and possibly do research in voice technologies.
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Admin - How To
Katoolin: Installing Kali Linux Tools on a Debian-based OS
In this article, we feature Katoolin, a script that facilitates the installation of Kali Linux tools on Kali Linux or a Linux distribution of your choice. With Katoolin, the user can also add or remove Kali Linux repositories.
| Admin - How To
Discovering the Versatility of User Mode Linux
User Mode Linux or ‘Linux in Linux’ allows you to run Linux within itself. This gives users a powerful means of doing all sorts of things like debugging kernels, studying processes, etc. This article is a guide to building User Mode Linux (UML) and running multiple UML instances on the same system.
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Admin - Lets Try
Build, Deploy and Manage Custom Apps with IBM Bluemix
IBM’s Bluemix affords developers an opportunity to build, deploy and manage custom apps. Bluemix is built on Cloud Foundry. It supports a number of programming languages as well as OpenWhisk, which allows developers to call any function without the need for resource management
| Developers - How To
Creating a Chat Application in App Inventor 2
As we move on in our journey of creating mobile applications using Google’s App Inventor2, let’s try out a chat app. Our expert guides the reader in creating a demo chat application that can be refined and modified later.
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Developers - Let's Try
Falcon: A High Performance, Lightweight Web Framework
Falcon is a lightweight, high performance framework for building cloud APIs. If your aim is to serve requests as quickly as possible by putting in some extra effort during the development stage, then you should give Falcon a try.
| For U & Me - Let's Try
Create Your Own Music with Free Software
The production of music brings out some of the deepest levels of creativity in people. Each of us can explore our musical talents with the help of open source software. This article is a comprehensive guide to creating music with free software.
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Admin - Overview
The Best Open Source Cloud Computing Simulators
Cloud computing is here to stay because of the great advantages that it offers. Service providers offering cloud computing need to evaluate their services from time to time. Real-time and real world evaluation can prove to be costly and impractical, so simulation offers an easy way out. This article introduces a selection of open source cloud computing simulators.
| Developers - Lets Try
Impress Your Colleagues with Awesome Vim Plugins
Vim is an improved version of the Vi editor. It has evolved from its simple origins and is now a powerful cross-platform text editing tool that works from the command line and as a standalone GUI. The full potential of Vim becomes evident when using its plugins, and this article tells you how to install them.
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Developers - Insight
Why is Big Data So Important for Enterprises?
In today’s world, there is an explosion of data from social media and other sources. Enterprises carefully harvest this data and store it for meaningful reuse. Handling such vast quantities of data requires specialised tools and techniques. Big Data is here to stay as an important part of our lives.
| OpenGurus - Let's Try
Make Your Own Tor Proxy Router with Raspberry Pi
Many of us want to browse anonymously on our laptops, mobile phones and tablets, or on console devices that not only do not have an Ethernet/LAN connection but also cannot run Tor. What if you cannot install Tor or do not want to on your work computer? If you want to use Tor but don’t have the time or ability to run it on your computer, this article is for you.
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Admin - Let's Try
Infrastructure Management Made Easy with Salt Stack
The tremendous success of technologies like virtualisation and cloud computing has made infrastructure management a more challenging task for system administrators. This article introduces a simple and powerful tool called Salt Stack for infrastructure management.
| Developers - Lets Try
An Introduction to OpenUI5
You can build enterprise class Web applications that are responsive to any device of your choice, using OpenUI5, which is also called the Swiss knife for developing modern HTML5 apps.
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