Thanks to our outgoing sponsor: Snikket
Snikket is a FOSS project for creating private chat spaces for small groups, such as families, friends, or clubs. It doesn’t depend on a phone number, doesn’t upload address books anywhere, and doesn’t sell data to advertisers. It supports all the features you expect, including media and voice messages, audio and video calls, end-to-end encryption, group messaging, and more. Use it from multiple devices at once with the official apps, or even with unofficial, third-party apps. Snikket is easy to self-host, and professional managed hosting is also available. Our previous sponsor, JMP, opted to donate a free week’s sponsorship to Snikket, which any paying OSAlert sponsor can opt to do. This is our very small way of giving something back to the countless open source and/or smaller projects out there. Thank you Snikket for sponsoring OSAlert! Snikket: this week’s sponsor
Snikket is a FOSS project for creating private chat spaces for small groups, such as families, friends, or clubs. It doesn’t depend on a phone number, doesn’t upload address books anywhere, and doesn’t sell data to advertisers. It supports all the features you expect, including media and voice messages, audio and video calls, end-to-end encryption, group messaging, and more. Use it from multiple devices at once with the official apps, or even with unofficial, third-party apps. Snikket is easy to self-host, and professional managed hosting is also available. Our previous sponsor, JMP, opted to donate a free week’s sponsorship to Snikket, which any paying OSAlert sponsor can opt to do. This is our very small way of giving something back to the countless open source and/or smaller projects out there. Thank you Snikket for sponsoring OSAlert!
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Thanks to our outgoing sponsor: JMP
We’d like to thank this past week’s sponsor JMP for sponsoring OSAlert. As a reminder, JMP is a fully FOSS service providing a way to get a real phone number that operates over the internet using XMPP. They provide numbers in the USA and Canada with everything you need to access SMS/MMS/etc. and voice calls using your XMPP (or SIP) clients of choice across all your devices. They are committed to growing the use of open communications technology such as XMPP, ultimately working to help people move their communication off the unencrypted telephone network and onto the federated, encrypted, and diverse Jabber network. Once again, thanks to JMP for sponsoring OSAlert! JMP: this week’s sponsor
JMP is a fully FOSS service providing a way to get a real phone number that operates over the internet using XMPP. They provide numbers in the USA and Canada with everything you need to access SMS/MMS/etc. and voice calls using your XMPP (or SIP) clients of choice across all your devices. They are committed to growing the use of open communications technology such as XMPP, ultimately working to help people move their communication off the unencrypted telephone network and onto the federated, encrypted, and diverse Jabber network. We thank JMP for sponsoring OSAlert this week, and they even offer a discount code for OSAlert readers who sign up for the service. Use the code OSAlert for one free month after paying for your account initially.
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UnitySync: this week’s sponsor
We’re very grateful to this week’s sponsor: UnitySync®. For a unified GAL and more, UnitySync helps sync objects between LDAP and cloud directories with this highly scalable and customizable tool. Directory Wizards offers responsive technical support before and after your purchase, as well as other directory tools to simplify directory maintenance. A free evaluation available to test drive your solution. Please visit their website to learn more: https://www.dirwiz.com/unitysync .
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Thanks to our outgoing weekly sponsor, OPS
If you want to learn more about how to run existing Linux applications as unikernels, visit their website. If you know of someone who might be interested in being a sponsor, please let us know. OPS: This week’s sponsor
We’re very grateful to this week’s (and our inaugural) sponsor: OPS is a new free open source tool that allows anyone including non-developers to run existing Linux applications as unikernels. Long predicted to be the next generation of cloud infrastructure, unikernels have remained inaccessible to developers because of their low level nature. OPS fixes that. Please visit their website to learn more: https://ops.city OPS is a new free open source tool that allows anyone including non-developers to run existing linux applications as unikernels. If you want to cut to the chase goto https://ops.city – download and you can be building and running your own unikernels in a few clicks. If you’re the type that wants to build from source go to https://github.com/nanovms/ops . Unikernels have long been predicted to be the next generation of cloud infrastructure but have remained in-accessible to developers because of their low level nature. OPS fixes that. But what is a unikernel? A unikernel is the synthesis of a single application and the operating system bits it actually needs to work into a small light-weight secure virtual machine. How small? Sometimes they can be measured in the kilobyte size. Being a single process system with no support for running multiple processes or support for users or shells allows them to run much faster and much more secure. Unikernels are a breath of fresh air compared to the 15M LOC in a linux kernel or the 50-200M LOC found in modern distributions. They are also designed to reflect how developers actually deploy software in 2019 –not 1969. Get started quickly: Now put this into a hi.js: Now let’s run it: What this does is build a disk image out of your code and rather than boot into linux than your init manager it boots straight to your application and starts running immediately. OPS implements a thin wrapper around qemu to orchestrate locally but it can be deployed onvarious hypervisors. So checkout https://github.com/nanovms/ops – download it, fork it, star it and let us know what you build!
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