Don Marti is chair of Open Source World (previously LinuxWorld). A Linux user since 1994, Don has been a writer, editor, professional services consultant, and conference organizer. Marti walks us through Linux security from the developer perspective and shares his thoughts on today’s biggest code quality issues, open source advantages and best practices for proprietary and OSS teams.
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IBM Researcher and Postfix Maintainer, on “Open” vs. “Closed” Source Code Security
Wietse Venema created the open source Postfix mail system in 1997 and still maintains most the system himself. Venema talks to us about the unique structure of Postfix that gives it a leg up on security, “open” vs. “closed” code and thoughts for an advanced Scan project.
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Interesting things I saw at GCDS: Pardus Linux
This year at GCDS I had the pleasure of meeting a relatively small team of around 15 developers who are sponsored by the Turkish government work on a Turkish Linux distribution called Pardus.
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A standard compliant web browser and editor: Amaya
Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards.
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Mono Roundup: Still Dangerous, Still Not Acceptable
Nothing of practical use has really changed for Mono, but its connection to Microsoft was made a lot clearer
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Install Educational Suite for Children aged 2 to 10 : GCompris in Ubuntu / Debian
GCompris is a excellent educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10. Most of the activities are game orientated educational. GCompris offers more than 100 activities in differentclassifications like classified into mathematics, puzzles, computer discovery, amusement activities,strategy games, experimental activities and reading activities. Gcompris is available in more than 40 Languages.
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Java development outpaces C# development on all platforms
According to the “Normalized Comparison” and “Normalized Discussion Site Results” on LangPop, the Internet’s largest programming language survey, Java is #2 on those two categories, C holds the #1 spot both, C# holds the #6 on “Normalized Comparison” and #7 on “Normalized Discussion Site Results”.
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An interview with RVM, developer of Smplayer
Last week I made a review of the excellent media player for Linux and Windows Smplayer. This week the developer behind this great Mplayer front-end granted me an email interview
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It’s Official: Patents Stifle Innovation
Scientific study supports what everyone already knows - that intellectual monopolies reduce pace of progress
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation using Drupal
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) started using Drupal for a number of properties like ABC Digital Music, ABC Country and ABC Jazz.
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Microsoft Shares Destiny with Partners That Promote Its Agenda
Infosys helps Microsoft fight against the interests of the Indian people, but both companies are suffering together from an unstoppable power shift (from colonisation to freedom and independence)
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Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Debian Lenny
This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running Debian Lenny) with GlusterFS.
Read more »Microsoft Lobbyist Jonathan Zuck Gets Exposed and Quickly Retreats
Microsoft lobbying backfires, so the attack on Free software is retracted with the excuse that "an old draft [was] released in error"
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Norway Embraces Open Standards, Many Others Follow Suit
Norway embraces ODF and maybe Ogg too; ODF in general spreads rapidly
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Top 3 Linux BitTorrent Applications
A roundup of three Linux BitTorrent applications with screenshots and feature list
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.




