Further analysis of the response to Mono criticism and the abuse directed against those who dissent against Mono

Buck-Security is a security scanner for Debian and Ubuntu Linux. It helps you to harden your system by running some important security checks. For example, it finds world-writable files and directories, setuid and setgid programs, superuser accounts, and installed attack tool packages.

Most people with an interest in software freedom will turn to GNU/Linux as their operating system of choice. Few realize however, that the vast majority of GNU/Linux distros are not entirely free. Imagine migrating away from Windows, only to find that by installing GNU/Linux you are accepting a restrictive Microsoft license!

In my post last week, Time For A Linux Laptop, I discussed how my options were rather slim when it came to combining Linux, good processing power, and machines on the smaller end of the laptop scale.

Well, despite my lack of options, I’ve made a purchase, and it’s arriving today.

MyPaint is a lightweight, easy-to-use open source painting application that you might not have heard of before. It’s not a photo editor, it doesn’t bother with paths, geometric shapes, text manipulation, or fancy masking options. Instead, it focuses on one and only one use: painting.

In practice, things aren't going to change that much from today's Web, with its reliance on proprietary media formats and methods.

One of the most important tasks for a Linux administrator to achieve in shell scripting is to test for information you need to know. Conditions is a way to test for one thing and if that is true then take one action and if it is not true take a different action. This tutorial, with illustrations, will help you start writing conditions to test for the information you need.

I'm not suggesting that a blockbuster Canonical-Oracle relationship is set to emerge. But there are indications that Canonical continues to make some Ubuntu progress with MySQL - the open source database now owned by Oracle. Here's some of the anecdotal information I've heard.