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Linux landed on Mars
The drone helicopter Ingenuity, landed on Mars on February 18, represents a success for the Open Source community, as it runs on a Linux operating system and is based on an Open Source Software…
NEWSCreated: 24/02/2021
OSPO Series: Government OSPOs for Europe
The final results of the European Commission Study on the Impact of Open Source Software and Hardware were presented on 5 February at the European Open Source Policy Summit, opened by Commissioner…
NEWSCreated: 10/02/2021
Spanish Air Force fights obsolescence and insecurity through open source
Keeping the ICT systems and infrastructures of the Spanish Air Force secure is like fighting a many-headed dragon. So Col. Fernando Acero Martin, Director of Cyber Defence at the Spanish Air Force…
NEWSCreated: 22/07/2019
Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia join EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
This month the Linux Foundation launched the CHIPS Alliance, which will be home to open source projects related to microprocessors and Systems on a Chip (SoCs). All the early backers — Esperanto…
NEWSCreated: 20/03/2019
A call for open research computation
Openness has become an important pillar of science practice. Open access makes research output (i.e. scientific publications) publicly available. In an EU context, open access also includes open…
NEWSCreated: 05/12/2018
OECD: open-source software pivotal in artificial intelligence
Open-source software plays an important role in artificial intelligence (AI). This includes specific software libraries, editors and development environments, and machine learning platforms. So say…
NEWSCreated: 23/11/2018
Open-source RISC processors making waves in research and industry
It's still early in terms of silicon implementations, tooling and operating system support, but the open RISC-V processor specification is making inroads in the processor world. As RISC-V Marketing…
NEWSCreated: 11/10/2018
Building smart cities on the open-source Things Network
LoRa, a low-power, long-range radio technology for networks on a municipal scale, provides a low-cost infrastructure on which municipalities can build a plethora of Internet-of-Things (IoT)…
NEWSCreated: 01/10/2018
Building microprocessor architectures on open-source hardware and software
It has been five years since ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Bologna in Italy started their joint PULP research project on the energy efficiency of microprocessor architectures. The…
NEWSCreated: 20/08/2018
Open source community worried about Copyright Directive
This week, more than 80 organisations involved in open source software wrote an open letter to the Council of the EU and the European Commission expressing their concerns on the new Copyright…
NEWSCreated: 02/12/2017
Digitising European Industry: Open Source Driving the Automotive Sector
The European industrial landscape is changing rapidly. Today’s reality is that industrial processes, in all sectors, are increasingly software-driven, as we move towards digitisation, connectivity and…
EVENTCreated: 29/04/2021