Tag Archives: Linux

Enlarge / The Overture Maps logo. Overture Maps Foundation Google Maps is getting some competition. The Linux Foundation has announced Overture Maps, a “new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data as a shared asset that can strengthen mapping services worldwide.” It’s an open source mapping effort that includes a list of heavy hitters: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom,… Source link

Google is the map provider to beat, and the Linux Foundation wants to attempt just that Let’s face it: Google Maps is a great mapping service that might be all you’ll ever need depending on where you live or which places you visit. If you’re looking for a similarly full-fledged mapping service on Android, you’re basically out of luck, even with an abundance of more specialized services out there. In fact, many third-party developers rely on Google Maps… Source link

Companies like TomTom have struggled for years to beat Google Map’s might in the world of navigation and geolocation, but a partnership facilitated by the Linux Foundation might offer them and the likes of Meta and Microsoft a new means of one-upping the current king.Image: TomTom Some of Google’s biggest rivals are coming together in a kind of rogues gallery with the hopes of creating new open source services to knock Google Maps from its mapping throne. On Thursday, the nonprofit Linux… Source link

Learn the steps to install Yandex Browser on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa using the command terminal to start surfing the internet.  “Yandex Browser” is a free fast and visually appealing alternative to Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge. Users who want to switch to Yandex can easily import data such as bookmarks and the settings from other popular browsers in just a few steps. Well, this Russian Search engine company’s browser is based on Chromium and Opera elements,… Source link

If you look around Google’s Mountain View, CA offices, you’ll see Windows machines, Chromebooks, Macs — and gLinux desktops. G what, you ask? Well, in addition to  relying on Linux for its servers, Google has its very own Linux desktop distribution. You can’t get it — darn it! — but for more than a decade, Google has been baking and eating its own homemade Linux desktop distribution. The first version was Goobuntu. (As you’d guess from the name, it was… Source link

It is estimated that the Google Chrome web browser has a userbase in excess of three billion across platforms. Desktop users, be they of the Linux, Mac or Windows persuasion, are advised to update their browser as soon as possible as nine new security vulnerabilities, including one rated critical, are confirmed by Google. Critical new Google Chrome web browser vulnerability confirmed In a June 21 posting to Google’s Chrome releases channel, a security update was confirmed that fixes a… Source link

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of Flutter 3, the latest version of its open source, multiplatform UI development framework for building natively compiled applications. It’s been about four years since the company first launched a beta of Flutter 1.0. At the time, the team’s focus was mostly on helping developers build cross-platform mobile apps. Since then, it started adding web and desktop support, too, and now, with version 3, the team is… Source link

Miguel Ojeda Google said Thursday it’s funding a project to increase Linux security by writing… Source link

Two developers, sponsored by Google, will dedicate their time to addressing vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel as part of a wider effort to improve the security of open-source software. Google will sponsor a pair of developers to work full-time on bolstering the security of Linux. The developers in question, Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor,… Source link