Open Source Daily Guide

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 to address this. Enterprise software have inherent need for strong security and up-time, that is quite opposite of open-source development due to frequent and dispersed support facilities. These factors are deterring some companies from adopting them so more has to be done to address the security issue. Read the rest of this entry »

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 OpenESB, OpenMQ, Liferay Portal, SunGlassFish Web Stack and of course the core GlassFish app base. The complete portfolio comes at a price for corporate users but the benefits are way worth their value due to stable operations. Read the rest of this entry »

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 take back some of their customers still has detractors who shift to the open-sourced FireFox. The many other open-sourced browser projects have been slowly but surely taking a bite out of IE’s share of the browser market, with Chrome, Safari and many others taking their fair share. Read the rest of this entry »

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), the latest version of its software. In VC5, Vyatta supports OpenVPN, an open-source version of SSL VPN (Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network) software. SSL joins IPSec (Internet Protocol Security), PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) and L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) as VPN alternatives included in the routing platform. Frequently used to secure Web-based transactions, SSL is a relatively lightweight encryption system that works more easily with NAT (Network Address Translation) than do alternatives such as IPSec.

Another positive development for open source. See the whole story here.

The many open-sourced browsers that are wowing users all over the globe are indeed causing shivers down the spine of the much used Internet Explorer from Microsoft. the software giant has suffered blow after blow when it was deemed to be bullying users to use their IE which just happened to be bundled with their Windows OS Read the rest of this entry »

Ever wanted to develop an opensource program or software for your Symbian OS powered smartphone, but found it nearly impossible because it wasn’t an opensource type of OS? Or are you feeling a bit left out becuase you can’t enjoy opensourced applications on your Symbian phone? Well, there’s good news in the horizon as it maybe going opensource next year.

The momentum to turn Symbian into an open source mobile operating system is strong, and developers can expect to see a preliminary version in the first half of 2009, said Lee Williams, nominated executive director of the Symbian Foundation.

In June, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced plans to purchase the remaining stock in Symbian and spin it into a royalty-free operating system under the Eclipse Public License. The goal was to harness the innovation of the open source environment to increase market share, as well as to attract application developers.

Go opensource!

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オープンソースと無償ソフト市場はユーザーアプリケーションの継続で活発になってきました。 Linuxやその他のような無償ソフト製品はサーバーの境界から個人のデスクトップやラップトップに移動しつつあります。 無償ソフトとオープンソースプロジェクトとソフトウェアのアイデアは使用者にもあまりよく理解されていません。 なぜか、私達はこれらの言葉を混同して使っています。 私達は無料のソースとオープンソースを平行して使用するため、これらのものは無料で使えると考え込んでいます。 実際には「無料」というのは誤った名称です。 「無料のハンバーガー・Free burgers」は「言論の自由・free speech」と混乱すべきではありません。 このため、両方のソフトの幾つかが無料なのです。ただダウンロードすればよいのです。 しかし、全部が全部公共というわけではありません。 方法は違いますが、これらの組織は協力して開発者にオプションと自由を提供します。 見方と哲学が違います。

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Creativity will never reach its peak without competition. Just like online video companies. And if every tool for videos are not open sourced, free speech will be hindered. Thats why Miro came out to be. It was designed to give more freedom to video producers and its viewers. Miro was designed to work without hitch with numerous video hosting websites and video search engines. It is always best to have competition rather than monopoly. It is always best to have options in choosing a service that would work well for your specific need. What Miro does is it converts a media RSS feed to a channel. RSS is an open source program that works with so many web tools. Blogs benefit so much from RSS feeds.

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Last Tuesday, Google proudly announced the release of the source code for its much awaited mobile phone Android’s operating system. It is now available for everybody FREE of charge. By this bold move of making the operating system an open source code, Google is hoping that many applications will be written and appear for the mobile phone, as will cheaper phones. The Android is to be released under the Apache license. With this license, it doesnt obligate the developers to share the changes they made with the code in the open source community. It Google also hopes to enable manufacturers develop and innovate more on the platform so there will be differences with what phone manufacturers has to offer to the users.

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The open source and free software market is rising high with its continued user appreciation. The free software products like Linux and others are moving from the boundaries of servers, to personal desktops and laptops. But the idea of free software and open source projects and softwares is ever so unclear to many of the people who use them. Somehow, we interchange both terms. We use free source and open source side by side, leading us to believe that these things are available for free. The word “free” is actually a misnomer. “Free burgers” should not be confused with “free speech”. Thats why, some of the softwares from both communities are available for free. Just download it. But not all of its utilities. These communities work hand in hand to offer options and freedom for developers but with different approaches. Different prospective and different philosophy.