Tag: OSS

  • How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi’s operating system

    How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi’s operating system: When you buy a Raspberry Pi, the $35 computer doesn’t come with an operating system. Loading your operating system of choice onto an SD card and then booting the Pi turns out to be pretty easy. But where do Pi-compatible operating systems come from? Volunteers still make…

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  • Generation GitHub: Why We’re All in Open Source Now

    The GitHub Generation: Why We’re All in Open Source Now: GitHub was intended to be an open software collaboration platform, but it’s become a platform for much, much more than code. It’s now being used by artists, builders, home owners, everyone in between, entire companies … and cities. Copy and share society.

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  • Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database

    Open Source HANA, anybody? Metamarkets provides a data analytics service that offers real-time analytics, visualizations and other products. Metamarkets Co-Founder and CEO Mike Driscoll said it made sense to open source Druid, because the world needs an open source in-memory database. He said if Metamarkets didn’t offer Druid,  someone would build a different option and…

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  • Necessity is the mother of NoSQL

    The 451 group’s Matt Aslett argues that Necessity is the mother of NoSQL. Necessity is particularly relevant when looking at the history of the NoSQL databases. While it is easy for the incumbent database vendor to dismiss the various NoSQL projects as development playthings, it is clear that the vast majority of NoSQL projects were…

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