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Burning Man’s open source cell phone system could help save the world
With news of a new open source NX server, dubbed NeatX, that was released by Google and promptly lost in the shuffle of the Chrome OS announcement. “NX technology was developed by NoMachine to handle remote X Window connections and make a graphical desktop display usable over the Internet. By its own admission, Google has [...]
Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea’s Veil With Sleuthing and Satellite Images, Mr. Melvin Fills the Blanks on a Secretive Nation’s Map
“MAKE Magazine has put together their 3rd annual ‘State of Open Source Hardware 2008′ — in just a few years, the number of projects has grown from a small handful to an amazing 60+ offerings. Similar to open source software, open source hardware is available with source code, schematics, firmware and bills of materials, and [...]
An interview with John De Goes in which he argues: “The tools market is dead. Open source killed it.” The software developer turned president of N-BRAIN explains the effect that open source has had on the developer tools market, and how this forced the company to release the personal edition of UNA free of charge. [...]
IBM Developerworks’ recent analysis of how the NSA built SELinux to withstand attacks. The article shows us some of the relevant kernel architecture and compares SELinux to a few other approaches. We’ve discussed SELinux in the past. Quoting: “If you have a program that responds to socket requests but doesn’t need to access the file [...]
Can the Linux community get over its “not invented here” ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a culture of inclusion and not of [...]
Sun platform strategist Ian Murdock presented OpenSolaris at LugRadio Live. The platform looks promising, but serious advantages of adopting it on the desktop remain elusive. Read More… [From Sun touts big plans for OpenSolaris as first release nears]
If you’ve administered any remote Linux machines then you are already familiar with SSH, but you might not know that you can use SSH for much more than just connecting to a shell on a remote system. By using SSH’s port forwarding features, you can set up encrypted tunnels for many services, or connect to [...]
David Axe has an excellent contribution to Wired’s Danger Room on the military struggles to leverage open source medium for networking ideas and discussion. His suggestion caught my attention. I’m not saying that Army forums should be totally unprotected from insurgent snoopers. But they should be expanded, and loosened, to allow students, academics, journalists and, [...]
Role-based access control (RBAC) is a general security model that simplifies administration by assigning roles to users and then assigning permissions to those roles. Learn how RBAC in SELinux acts as a layer of abstraction between the user and the underlying TE model, and how the three pieces of an SELinux context (policy, kernel, and [...]
bsdphx writes “OpenSSH developers Damien Miller and Markus Friedl have recently added a nifty feature to make life easier for admins. Now you can easily lock an SSH session into a chroot directory, restrict them to a built-in sftp server and apply these settings per user. And it’s dead simple to do. If you need [...]
No royalties to pay in interop deal? The Samba team has reached an agreement with Microsoft, with the software giant agreeing to disclose technical and legal information to the software libre project. Samba is by far the most widely-used software stack that allows non-Microsoft computer to talk to Windows machines, and use proprietary Microsoft network [...]
The unification of XML and SQL relational data has taken another significant step forward recently with the introduction of significant new XML functionality in mySQL, the world’s most popular open source database. In versions 5.1 and 6.0, mySQL adds the… [From XML Moves to mySQL]
It’s been a decade now that the very first version of the GNU Privacy Guard has been released … [From GnuPG's 10th birthday!]
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Xen or VMWare?
Two days after VMWare had one of the most successful IPOs on recent years, and one day after XenSource announces that it is being acquired by Citrix. Money is flowing into the two major virtualization players at a rate we haven’t yet seen, what are your feelings about using Xen or VMWare on Linux?
Sourceforge Enterprise EditionDid you know you can download SourceforgeEE for 15 users for free. You’ll find it on Sourceforge.net and it comes in a VMWare appliance. That version will accommodate 50 users if you want to pay for more than 15 seats. From an enterprise point of view, the cost is quite reasonable.
