Apache Spot

• Open Source Community Continues Fight Against Cybercrime with Apache Spot (incubating)

• Apache Spot Aims to Fetch Open Network Insights

  The project formerly known as Open Network Insights moves to the Apache Software Foundation and gets a new name—Apache Spot. It now includes support for DNS and Proxy in addition to Netflow. The Open Network Insight (ONI) project, backed by Cloudera, Intel and others and focused on helping organizations use big data for security insights, became generally available earlier this year. The ONI project is now being donated to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)—home to Hadoop and many big data efforts—and is now getting a new life as the Apache Spot project.

• Meet Apache Spot, a new open source project for cybersecurity

  Hard on the heels of the discovery of the largest known data breach in history, Cloudera and Intel on Wednesday announced that they've donated a new open source project to the Apache Software Foundation with a focus on using big data analytics and machine learning for cybersecurity. Originally created by Intel and launched as the Open Network Insight (ONI) project in February, the effort is now called Apache Spot and has been accepted into the ASF Incubator. "The idea is, let's create a common data model that any application developer can take advantage of to bring new analytic capabilities to bear on cybersecurity problems," Mike Olson, Cloudera co-founder and chief strategy officer, told an audience at the Strata+Hadoop World show in New York. "This is a big deal, and could have a huge impact around the world."

• Meet Apache Spot, a new open-source project for cybersecurity

• Strata + Hadoop World: Apache Spot looks to tackle cybersecurity

• Cloudera Approves First Grant Applications for Precision Medicine Initiative

• Cloudera Broadens its Collaboration with Thorn to Include Software and Services to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation

Linaro and FOSS

• Linaro organisation, with ARM, aims for end-end open source IoT code

• Linaro start open-source development for IoT on ARM Cortex-M

• ARM open source group address IoT software confusion

  Linaro has worked with ARM, Canonical, Huawei, NXP, RDA, Red Hat, Spreadtrum, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and ZTE on the new IoT software, as part of what it calls the Linaro IoT and Embedded (LITE) Segment Group. Group says it wants to address the design problems created by the proliferation of choices for IoT device operating systems, security infrastructure, identification, communication, device management and cloud interfaces. It hopes to be able to reduce fragmentation in operating systems, middleware and cloud connectivity software, through the creation of open source device reference platforms. Initial technical work will be focused on delivering an end to end, cross­vendor solution for secure IoT devices using the ARM Cortex-­M architecture.

Ubuntu Leftovers

• Ubuntu 16.10 Isn't Shipping Vulkan Support By Default

  With Ubuntu 16.10 being right around the corner you may be wondering about its support for Vulkan.

• Ubuntu 16.10 Final Beta Released

• Ubuntu 16.10 Flavors: Beta 2 Downloads Now Available

• 2 Very Colorful Linux Icon Themes, Both Newly Updated

• Spotify Web Player for Linux Adds Media Key Support, Improved Customisation

• Canonical integrates Ubuntu with open source container manager Kubernetes

• Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 Now Available to Download

• Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Final Beta Arrives, Final Release On October 13

  Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Final Beta is now available for download for all major flavors. This release arrives with updated packages and Linux kernel 4.8. This release gives a pretty good idea of what users should expect from the Final Release which is scheduled for October 13.

• Canonical Rolls Out its Own Kubernetes Distribution

  As we’ve been noting in recent posts, Kubernetes, the open source container cluster manager originally designed by Google, is becoming a phenomenon. Canonical has now launched a distribution of Kubernetes, with enterprise support, across a range of public clouds and private infrastructure. “Companies moving to hyper-elastic container operations have asked for a pure Kubernetes on Ubuntu with enterprise support” said Dustin Kirkland, who leads Canonical’s platform products. “Our focus is operational simplicity while delivering robust security, elasticity and compatibility with the Kubernetes standard across all public and private infrastructure.”

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