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Hello everybody out there using minix -
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles [...]
In an interview with Open Enterprises, Director of Engineering at Hewlett Packard’s Open Source and Linux Organization, says that the company will invest in new Open Source services to support lifecycle and governance. This is a good example of Enterprise support for open source platforms.
Over the past 6 years, HP has developed internal processes [...]
The realm of closed systems developed in secrecy with closely guarded algorithms and software engineering may become a thing of the past as with the advent of more and more open-sourced systems being deployed across the internet. Cloud computing is set to be ruled by open-sourced applications, developed by big businesses to cater to commercial [...]
Though people and businesses are benefiting from the many deployed open-sourced programs the world over, security still prevents most from shifting to their use as with big businesses. The many security issues that are inherent of open-systems due to the dispersal of development that may span the globe is quite alarming and without proper measures [...]
GlassFish, from Sun Microsystems has just received a much deserved upgrade loading it woth more advanced features adding to it’s already advanced features being one of the computing industry’s most downloaded and used application server. The open-source contains some of the most powerful collection of technologies to come out of the open source industry including [...]
Mozilla has continued to grow in terms of the numbers of people who have shifted use of their browser, FireFox in place of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer due to one major difference, speed. IE has been known to have very large resource requirements and with the release of the newest version IE8 that is designed to [...]
Vyatta Community Edition 5 (VC5) user rejoice! Based on the latest news Vyatta is adding intrusion preventors for SSL and VPN in VC5. Also included are features for URL filtering and Web caching.
Open-source routing vendor Vyatta is adding SSL VPN, intrusion prevention, Web caching, URL filtering and other features in Vyatta Community Edition 5 (VC5), [...]
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The ‘ dd ‘ command is one of the original Unix utilities and should be in everyone’s tool box. It can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. It can be used to [...]
Now and then, the giant software wholesaler do something that their customers are locked into the proprietary products they put on the market. Some may think that because of the enormous amount of licenses and certifications, that’s why others are completely switching to Linux. One should not shift it’s gear yet merely because of the [...]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is famously against open source software. While speaking about his upcoming plans to work on the Gates Foundation full-time, he was asked if he would consider open sources uses in health research, and he replied…
“There’s free software and then there’s open source,” he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software [...]