What will make a commercial open source project successful? Unfortunately, most people miss the two basic reasons why software succeeds or fails -- and doom years of development from the start.
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FreeNAS: BSD Line and Linux Fork
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The FreeNAS project had discussed whether the free storage systems should use BSD or Linux in the future. The result is that both variants will now be available.
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Larrabee: Intel's Bad News is Good News For Nvidia and AMD
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Intel's decision to indefinitely delay its Larrabee graphics processor is a setback for the Linux community, delaying improved performance for users of open source operating systems.
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DIY pfSense firewall system beats others for features, reliability, and security
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With the prevalence of "black box" appliance firewalls available for $50 or less, one might wonder why you would look for a do-it-yourself solution. Linksys and D-Link, among other vendors, create simple and easy to configure firewall solutions for cheap.
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Pentoo Linux for Penetration Testing
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Pentoo linux is a Gentoo-based live CD with a selection of apps and tools designed to perform penetration testing. They recently released their 2009.0 version and we thought we'd take it for a spin and share our findings.
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Google DNS Benchmarked
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Today Google announced a public DNS service they are hosting. They claim that their DNS infrastructure is faster and more secure, because their servers do some clever things. I wanted to test their performance claims, so I wrote a little script to measure a lookup times for different domains across a number of DNS servers.
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Rawhide users: fasten your seat belts
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For the daring folks who follow Rawhide: life is about to get interesting for a while.
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Enable mod_rewrite in a Ubuntu server
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If you have done much work with Apache then most likely you have experienced a need for enabling the rewrite engine. If you are unfamiliar with the rewrite engine, you can think of it as a means for your web server to literally rewrite urls so they are easier for users to remember.
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Lenovo ThinkStation S20 Workstation review
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It is an amazingly powerful business rig meant for serious developers, modelers, video production artists and designers, but it's also cheaper than most standard desktop computers…
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Intent Is The Problem
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Of late, I keep banging into the problem that people want systems to be “secure by default”: they don’t want to pester the user about security. They want the system to just do the right thing. The problem is, this just isn’t possible.
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.2 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
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This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.2 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
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Everyone knows that Google DNS was released this week, the basic logic was clear: Google has a vested interest in the internet being fast, and so they want to offer a free public utility to help it be faster.
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Set up Google Public DNS on Ubuntu
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Google has recently released their very own DNS resolver with main goals of making web browsing faster and safer... replacing your ISP's slow DNS server with a third party DNS resolution service will help speed up your Internet connection. So if you are already using OpenDNS right now and are pleased with it, why not try Google Public DNS.
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Linux kernel cured of remote panic-attack bug
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Developers of the Linux kernel have patched a bug that allowed attackers to remotely crash a machine by sending it malicious Wi-Fi signals
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AMD, SiSoftware Team Up on OpenCL Benchmarks
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AMD and SiSoftware have teamed up to develop a benchmark testing suites for OpenCL. Released by SiSoftware, the OpenCL GPGPU benchmark suite is part of SiSoftware's Sandra 2010. OpenCL is an open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. SiSoftware's Sandra 2010 software provides remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, mobile devices and networks.
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