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What happens when the creators of malware collude with the very companies we hire to protect us from that malware? We users lose, that's what happens. A dangerous and damaging rootkit gets introduced into the wild, and half a million computers get infected before anyone does anything.
Novell Defends SUSE Against MS-Sponsored Study
Novell says the study's comparison of Microsoft's Windows Server System and Novell's SLES undervalues Linux and downplays Windows' reliability and security problems.
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Sun backs open-source database PostgreSQL
Sun plans to distribute database and optimize it for Solaris. It also plans to include Xen virtualization and Linux compatibilty next year.
New Linux Study Suggests Fundamental Microsoft Credibility Problems
Opinion: Another day, another lame attempt by Microsoft to show that Windows is better than Linux.
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The First Annual O'Reilly European Open Source Convention Supports FLOSS Momentum in Europe
Sebastopol, CA--Europe has become fertile ground for open source projects and innovators: European governments are beginning to integrate FLOSS (free/libre and open source software) in innovative ways, and open source communities--particularly on the professional level--are multiplying and gaining influence across the continent. To support and further this open source momentum, O'Reilly Media held its first O'Reilly European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON) at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam on October 17-20, 2005.
LXer Feature: What if Microsoft Became Our Friends
What would happen to Linux, Free Software, and Open Source Software if Microsoft reformed itself? What if Microsoft abandoned their evil, customer-hostile, restraint-of-trade ways, and did a complete turnaround? Would FOSS even have a reason to exist?
More Firefox secrets revealed
In this second interview with SearchOpenSource.com, Yank, who served as lead technical editor on the book, uncovers more of Firefox tips, shortcuts and plug-ins that users need to know about.
Lightweight Web Serving with thttpd
The Apache HTTP Server is the most popular web server due to its functionality, stability, and maturity. However, this does not make it suitable for all uses: slow machines and embedded systems may have serious problems running it because of its size. Here is where lightweight HTTP servers come into play, as their low-memory footprints deliver decent results without having to swap data back to disk.
Similarly, these small HTTP servers are suitable to serve static content efficiently so as to allow Apache, mod_perl, mod_python, or even servlet containers to handle dynamic requests without tying up memory-hungry children to serve small images. In other words, these applications can serve as a complement to your existing full-featured web server, not as a replacement.
Tackling poverty with technology
It is hard to believe that 19 shiny flat screen computers can cure the ills of this tiny community in South Africa's arid north where people battle every day against poverty, AIDS, illiteracy and hunger. Yet U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. and South African President Thabo Mbeki are promoting Dipichi's smart new IT lab as a blueprint for how technology can trigger growth and tackle poverty across the world's poorest continent.
Linux, Supercomputing And The Mid-Range
The importance of Linux in the world of supercomputers is difficult to understate. Linux is the installed operating system on 72 percent of the supercomputers listed in the latest Top 500 (www.top500.org) tally of the world's fastest supercomputers...The LS/X is the new high end system that Linux Networx claims can provide, "sustained application performance for configurations up to 100 Teraflops."
Plan certifies consumer-friendly downloads
An anti-spyware initiative backed by Internet portals Yahoo and AOL would certify downloadable software as consumer-friendly and non-invasive.
Sony's Copyright Overreach
Call it the revenge of the nerds -- digital style. For years, computer geeks and cyberlibertarians have howled about aggressive user restrictions programmed into music CDs, movie DVDs, and all kinds of software...Now the tide might be turning, thanks to a classic case of overreaching that has fomented a backlash against the industry.
[Ed.- Overreaching, my aunt Fanny. Sony simply got caught. How many more are there? -tuxchick]
A Day in the Life of #Apache
A huge number of the questions on #apache have to do with mod_rewrite. And, fairly frequently, I find myself thinking that the problem being discussed would be so much easier to solve if we could just write a Perl script to deal with it. Of course, you can, using the RewriteMap, but it's moderately hard to come by good examples of using this, either in the documentation, or elsewhere online.
Using Software RAID-1 with FreeBSD
Have you ever needed a software RAID solution for a low-end server install? Perhaps you've wanted your workstation to take advantage of the redundancy provided by a disk mirror without investing in a hardware RAID controller. Has a prior painful configuration experience turned you off software RAID altogether on Unix systems? Since 5.3-Release, FreeBSD comes with gmirror(8), which allows you to easily configure a software RAID 1 solution.
Samba's Terpstra shoots down open source misinformation
One would think that corporate IT decisions are made with the utmost care. Think again. In researching two guides to Samba-3, John H. Terpstra found that IT decision makers often choose products without due diligence, and often base their dismissals of Linux and open source software on misinformation.
[Ed.- John Terpstra is one of my personal heroes. Smart, and well-versed in real-world computing infrastructure needs.- tuxchick]
DNS Snooping Shows Widespread Sony Rootkit
Kaminsky discovered that at least 568,200 name servers contained entries related to the rootkit. While the method doesn't translate into exactly how many end-user computers are affected, since multiple users can go through one name server, "at that scale, it doesn't take much to make this a multi-million host, worm-scale incident," he wrote.
Benjamin Meyer on Type Managers
Type Managers are intentional interfaces for files that have similar or the same type of data. The type in Type Manager literally refers to a set of mime types such as images, videos, music, or e-mails...Depending upon how your client stores your messages (one fat file or as separate files) you can use your file manager to view, sort, find, etc your e-mails. Type Manager applications are file managers in disguise. They present a user interface for a specific file type. They also do something much more useful. They often do the file management for the user.
Barenaked Ladies Live On A Stick
"The Barenaked Ladies are trying out a new method of music delivery: 28 songs, plus video and audio clips and a few live versions, on a 128 mb flash drive."
Linux trademark stops train
A TRAIN DRIVER slowed Germany's rail system to a halt after he mistook a giant toy penguin for a dead man in a tuxedo.
Open Source Storage Takes on RAID
A storage startup hopes to make a name for itself by basing its solutions almost entirely on open source technologies. The company even chose a not-so-subtle name to get the point across: Open Source Storage, complete with the domain name opensourcestorage.com.
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