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Also in today’s open source roundup: Is Red Hat a good desktop distro? And why you should run Windows as a VM in Linux
Google Spanner is a NewSQL database
Temporarily permitting illegal reflective access from code on the class path could support a more relaxed migration to the modular Java platform
The MKL libraries for accelerating math operations debuted in Intel's own Python distribution, but now other Pythons are following suit
Containers started with technical people, so many of the benefits are known instinctively by users. But if you are new to containers, these benefits might not be so obvious.
The direct integration with the code-hosting platform to make things easier for devs -- but also ties them more closely to GitHub
A top misconception is that the Maven build system will not work with Java 9
Also in today’s open source roundup: Ars Technica reviews Ubuntu 17.04, and Ubuntu has a login screen security flaw
The open source database for processing high-speed freeform data with SQL queries now has enterprise features, available as open source for faster developer uptake
The addition of heterogenous memory management to the Linux kernel will unlock new ways to speed up GPUs, and potentially other kinds of machine learning hardware