Articles by Jack M. Germain

Microsoft this week released an updated version of its Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit as an open source Beta The deep learning system is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search relevance on CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. It also works with Microsoft's Azure GPU offering....

Maui 1 "Aurora," which launched this summer, is one of the latest newcomers in the continuously changing list of Linux distributions....

Red Hat on Wednesday released the beta version of Fedora 25, an open source Linux operating system maintained by the Fedora Project community The beta release sharpens cloud and developer features, making this Linux distro more attractive to enterprise users....

Apricity OS is a great, two-pronged Linux distro that recently reached a milestone that will ensure its continued success....

GE and Bosch Software Innovations this week announced a partnership to jump-start the development of an open source Internet of Things platform Open source will encourage greater interoperability and application development, the companies said. Both firms have sought help from the Eclipse Foundation to speed up the process....

The Black Panther OS is a bare-bones Linux distribution built around the KDE desktop. The KDE environment itself is not a minimal component, but how it is integrated within Black Panther gives you an almost-nothing-there installation until you painstakingly install system tools and applications, literally piece by piece....

Parsix is a feature-rich distro that will delight GNOME desktop users looking for a well-tweaked user experience....

Online education companyUdacity on Tuesday introduced a new "nanodegree" program in self-driving auto engineering. President Sebastian Thrun made the announcement during an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt The goal is to build a crowdsourced, open source self-driving car, he said....

Cub Linux, an improved rebranding of the innovative Chromixium Linux distro, combines the look, feel and functionality of Google's Chrome OS with traditional Linux performance....

The latest ransomware intrusion that targets Linux servers, dubbed "FairWare," may be a classic server hack designed to bilk money from victims with no intent to return stolen files after payment in bitcoins is made Tech support site Bleeping Computer earlier this week reported the threat, based on server administrator comments on its forum. Other ...

The Peppermint operating system is built around a concept not found in most Linux distros. It is a hybrid combination of traditional Linux desktop applications and cloud-based infrastructure....

Happy Birthday, Linux! You're 25! When Linux was born on Aug. 25, 1991, it was little more than a hobby for then-21-year-old Linus Torvalds. Today the Linux community is estimated to be upwards of 86 million users strong. It has become the backbone of large enterprises, and it is installed in government systems and embedded in devices worldwide....

Slackware is one of those Linux distros often described as being difficult to use. The Slackware Project version 14.2 released on July 1 does little to change that view -- at least, as far as installing it is concerned....

The Linux Foundation on Tuesday addedPNDA -- the Platform for Network Data Analytics -- to its project menagerie PNDA provides an open source, scalable platform for next-generation network analytics. It integrates data from multiple sources on a network and works with Apache Spark to crunch the numbers in order to find useful patterns in the data m...

The Linux Mint 18 Sarah will please long-time users and impress new adopters for its growth in features and overall consistent performance....

Linux-operated botnet Distributed Denial of Service attacks surged in this year's second quarter, due to growing interest in targeting Chinese servers, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released this week South Korea kept its top ranking for having the most command-and-control servers. Brazil, Italy and Israel ranked among the leaders behind Sout...

The Solus Project version 1.2, released last month, shows considerable maturity in the homegrown Budgie desktop....

Chrome OS and Android Apps now run together on some Chromebooks. Many, but not all, Chromebook models will get the operating system update that allows it as fall approaches....

Splice Machine this week announced it has open sourced its Spark-powered relational SQL database system The company has set up a cloud-based sandbox for developers to put its new open source Splice Machine 2.0 Community Edition to the test. The company also announced the release of a cluster version and the launch of a developer community site....

HandyLinux is a distro that offers a simplified approach to using the Linux desktop operating system....