Free Software: Lists and Individual Applications in Review

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 17, 2023

• 12 Open Source Projects To Watch In 2023

  Significant investment continues to pour into the open source ecosystem, from individual contributors worldwide and from companies like Meta, Anaconda, NVIDIA, Google, and more. The pursuit of innovation across the data community is remarkable – and we are grateful for the spirit and energy toward constant improvement and innovation.

  Voltron Data contributes to numerous open source projects including Apache Arrow, Substrait, Ibis, RAPIDS, Velox, and more. We deeply believe that supporting open source standards will ensure freedom and flexibility for the future of data systems.

  As we look ahead to 2023, we want to spotlight 12 open source projects that are paving the way for innovation in the data analytics ecosystem. Some of these projects are well-established and others are emerging. All are on a mission to tackle pain points developers and engineers face in data science, machine learning, and other corners of today’s complex data analytics landscape.

  To generate this list, we pooled insights and perspectives from Voltron Data’s leadership, product, engineering, and developer relations teams. We dug deep into project pages, community forums, and GitHub to identify the projects we think will fundamentally change the way we work with data. This list is not intended to be exhaustive. We hope it inspires you to discuss, honor, and uncover other exceptional work happening in the open source data community.

• Top 10 Docker Alternatives That Stand Out That You Should Know in 2023

  Docker has several standalone alternatives, some of which offer virtualization technologies and cross-platform support. Docker alternatives that stand out are also Open Container Initiative (OCI) tools that work with Docker, replace some Docker components, or work with other Docker alternatives to form robust Docker competitors.

  Thanks to its contemporary tools, compatibility, sizable community, and simplicity of use, Docker is still relevant for the majority of container projects, apps, and developers today. The licensing for Docker Desktop has recently changed, among other modifications made by Docker Inc. Consider these Docker alternatives that stand out in 2023 if you’re worried about the future of Docker and the exponential growth of Kubernetes because there are probably yet more changes to come. In this article, we’ll discuss the top Docker alternatives that stand out in 2023.

• Linux Apps Tour: Ventoy, a feature-rich utility to create bootable USB

  Ventoy is a free, open-source, cross-platform utility for creating bootable USB drives for Linux and Windows. It is feature-rich and supports most system images and computer architectures. This article highlights Ventoy's best features and teaches you how to configure and use this Rufus alternative.

• What's new in Apache ShardingSphere 5.3.0?

  After 1.5 months in development, Apache ShardingSphere 5.3.0 has been released. Our community merged 687 PRs from contributors around the world.

  The new release has been improved in terms of features, performance, testing, documentation, examples, etc.

  The 5.3.0 release brings the following highlights:

  Additionally, release 5.3.0 also brings the following adjustments...

• Here’s what’s going on in the world of extensions

  About one-third of Firefox users have installed an add-on before – whether it’s an extension to add powerful and customizable features or a visual theme to personalize the web browsing experience. But if you’re unfamiliar, add-ons are sort of like apps for your browser. They can add all kinds of features to Firefox to make browsing faster, safer or just more fun.

  The past year introduced some exciting new changes to the extensions world. The majority of these changes are foundational and take place in the deeply technical back-end of the system, typically out of sight of most Firefox users. However, if you pride yourself on hanging out in popular cybersecurity hubs, reading the latest tech news or developing your own extensions then you might have caught wind of some of these changes yourself.