Lantronix will award prizes of $6,000 and $3,000 to the two top entries for Best Linux Design, and a separate prize of $3,000 for the Best Student Linux Design.

Work on porting KJots to Akonadi started a long time ago (around summer 2008!), and that effort is reaching a milestone this week. The ported version of KJots has been merged into trunk for the next release of the KDE Software Compilation where work will continue on it to refine features and fix bugs.

I have some advice for you, if you’re thinking about spearheading an open source project: Define your goal at the outset, and never ever allow the public to determine which way your project goes.

The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors was published today listing the most widespread issues that lead to software vulnerabilities.
Mark Cox: "During the creation and review of the list we spent some time to see how closely last years list matched the types of flaws we deal with at Red Hat."

In this fourth article in a series introducing Vimscript, Damian Conway introduces you to dictionaries, including an overview of their basic syntax and many functions. He concludes with several examples that illustrate the use of dictionaries for more efficient data processing and cleaner code.

Just as they did last year, over thirty international security organisations have come together, to publish a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors leading to vulnerabilities that can be exploited for cybercrime and espionage.

Ever wonder whether a given FLOSS project is going to succeed or flounder? Need a little help reading the tea leaves? Now you can follow along at home with a handy scorecard that looks at everything from source control to project communication.

There are certain things you need to tweak in Apache running under any Debian platform (including Ubuntu) in order to have it properly redirect webpages (301) after you change your permalink structure in WordPress.