Yoggie Security Systems has today released the source code for its Linux-based mini-security computers to the developer community, and aims to release the source code to most of the applications on the Yoggie Gatekeeper system in due course.

Last month we reported on four indie games going open-source that were part of the pay-what-you-want "Humble Indie Bundle" after the developers experienced very favorable returns. The source-code to Aquaria has now been published with the source-code to the three other titles (Lugaru, Gish, and Penumbra Overture) already being available.

Sony PlayStation 3 owners who lost the option to install alternate operating systems (like Linux) with last week's 3.21 firmware update have a new glimmer of hope. Hacker George Hotz (a.k.a Geohot) has released a video of a new hack that promises to bring the option back.

"Open-source developer Parallels finally released the source code for the Wine software used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday - but only after weeks of prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the IT forum Slashdot."

It was unfortunately reported yesterday by a number of sources that Amazon had released the source code for the software running on the Kindle DX.
This isn’t all of the Kindle source code. It’s a selection released in order to comply with the license requirements of the code originally written by other people (like the GNU Project) which Amazon modified for its own purposes.

Don Marti is chair of Open Source World (previously LinuxWorld). A Linux user since 1994, Don has been a writer, editor, professional services consultant, and conference organizer. Marti walks us through Linux security from the developer perspective and shares his thoughts on today’s biggest code quality issues, open source advantages and best practices for proprietary and OSS teams.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.

Many companies are beginning to see the intrinsic value of open source software for the enterprise but as businesses piecemeal solutions together from a variety of options, it's easy to lose track of each app's updates and revisions -- leading to potential security issues from unknown or undocumented code.

Frank Kardel is a veteran contributor to the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

Over the last 21 years, he has made significant contributions to maintain, update and secure the NTP code. Kardel is also the NTP Scan Project Leader.