Free software's "many eyeballs" defence is being slammed by Microsoft employees who cite their own reports and continue to show incompetence and extreme negligence when it comes to security
Read more »Microsoft is Still Attacking Free/Open Source Software With Security FUD
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Computer Science Education Benefits from FLOSS
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I read with interest today when Linux Weekly News linked to Greg DeKoenigsberg's response to Mark Guzdial's ACM Blog post, The Impact of Open Source on Computing Education. I must sadly admit that I was not terribly surprised to read such a post from an ACM-affiliated academic that speaks so negatively of FLOSS's contribution to Computer Science education.
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KDE 4.4 Review, Screenshot Tour (and KDE 4.0 Comparison)
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21,000 closed bugs later, the KDE team has announced the new KDE 4.4 and I simply had to take a look. After all, the last time I took KDE 4 Series for a spin was back when I still thought open source was one word.
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Barbie the Computer Engineer
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Maybe it is time to retire that "math class is hard" speech chip once and for all and replace it with some often-used Linux shell commands.
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Google donates two million dollars to Wikimedia
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The Wikimedia Foundation has received another major donation. Today Google announced that it is donating two million dollars to the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia.
Read more »Linux Training Week: Ease of Use
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For most consumers, the number one factor when buying a computer is for it to ‘just work’ without them having to play around with various settings or install drivers for various hardware components.
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Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup On Ubuntu 9.10
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AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 server.
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You can’t have it your way
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I have some advice for you, if you’re thinking about spearheading an open source project: Define your goal at the outset, and never ever allow the public to determine which way your project goes.
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Under the Hood with MeeGo
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Put aside that difference, though, and the projects are peas in a pod. Furthermore, given that the Linux kernel supports more than two-dozen architectures, can't open source app stacks evolve beyond architectural boundaries? Sure they can, and many have.
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Multimedia Codecs: The Legal Path
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If the American government invested as many resources rounding up violators of software licenses as it does fighting "terror" (and no, I don't mean the Jacobin variety), I'd have been put away long ago, because all of my Ubuntu systems use patented multimedia software that I didn't pay for. But I've recently realized that it doesn't have to be this way, and that legal codec support is easily ava
Read more »16 Feb 2010: Red Hat's Top 11 Most Serious Flaw Types for 2009
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The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors was published today listing the most widespread issues that lead to software vulnerabilities.
Mark Cox: "During the creation and review of the list we spent some time to see how closely last years list matched the types of flaws we deal with at Red Hat."
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2010 CWE--SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
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The Top 25 list is a tool for education and awareness to help programmers to prevent the kinds of vulnerabilities that plague the software industry, by identifying and avoiding all-too-common mistakes that occur before software is even shipped.
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Scripting the Vim editor, Part 4: Dictionaries
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In this fourth article in a series introducing Vimscript, Damian Conway introduces you to dictionaries, including an overview of their basic syntax and many functions. He concludes with several examples that illustrate the use of dictionaries for more efficient data processing and cleaner code.
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Review: Patriot Box Office PVP
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Today I'm going to be taking a look at the Linux powered Patriot Box Office (PBO), a Personal Video Player (PVP) designed for the home entertainment or theater system.
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Code Project: monitor /proc with Python and Clutter
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If you already read our beginner's guide to the Clutter toolkit and wished it were available in something other than C, then good news: we're putting together a tutorial series covering PyClutter, the Python binding to Clutter, which merges all the power and beauty of the Clutter toolkit with the simplicity and brevity of Python.
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