In Through The Out Door » Open Source

Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal

stexas — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:00:15 +0000

Just show how Redmond cannot deal with the POWER of Android. They must buy of foreigners!

Burning Man’s open source cell phone system could help save the world

stexas — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:16:24 +0000

Burning Man’s open source cell phone system could help save the world

Google Releases Open Source NX Server

stexas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:59:36 +0000

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

stexas — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:48:55 +0000

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

The State of Open Source Hardware In 2008

stexas — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:47:52 +0000

“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 [...]

Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools

stexas — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:07:22 +0000

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. [...]

How the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level

stexas — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:43:32 +0000

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 [...]

Unixfication II

stexas — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:20:57 +0000

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 touts big plans for OpenSolaris as first release nears

stexas — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:49:26 +0000

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]

Port Forwarding with SSH

stexas — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:17:35 +0000

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 [...]

Open Source, Professionals, Military Content, and the Future

stexas — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:17:10 +0000

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 in SELinux

stexas — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:52:07 +0000

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 [...]

Chroot in OpenSSH

stexas — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:16:45 +0000

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 [...]

Samba shakes hands with Microsoft

stexas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:56:51 +0000

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 [...]

XML Moves to mySQL

stexas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:19:42 +0000

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]