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.
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IBM Researcher and Postfix Maintainer, on “Open” vs. “Closed” Source Code Security
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Wietse Venema created the open source Postfix mail system in 1997 and still maintains most the system himself. Venema talks to us about the unique structure of Postfix that gives it a leg up on security, “open” vs. “closed” code and thoughts for an advanced Scan project.
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Police expert calls for open source data tools
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Police data systems should be based on open source software, according to a data expert working with law enforcement.
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0 A.D. Now Open Source
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0 A.D. is a free, cross-platform, under-development, 3D, historically-based, real-time strategy game. It has been in production of some form for nearly 8 years, has 150k lines of code in the engine, and hundreds of dedicated (and now shared) models. And now it is open source.
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Microsoft aims to price itself into the open source market
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A fair price. What does that mean? If you ask most of us, abruptly, when we’re not expecting an economics exam, we’d say that a fair price is the cost of a good, plus a little on top for profit, writes Danny O'Brien.
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Open Source PHP application, which convert guidesigner.net feed into a PDF newspaper
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This is an open source PHP application which can convert any RSS feed into a PDF newspaper.
It works flawless with fetching only the text & ,currently, has a partial support for images.
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10 reasons why open source makes sense on smart phones
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Open source brings a host of benefits to the mobile market, starting with cost savings. But as Jack Wallen explains, the advantages go much further - from better security to more customization options to more prolific application development.
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Advocates say open-source software is better
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Advocates for open-source software are urging governments to embrace the concept, which they argue will save money, offer more flexibility and create better computer programs by encouraging collaboration.
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Future of Open Source: Hack This Gadget
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The open source movement gave rise to Linux and spawned a generation of collaborative coders. Now it's extending its reach to the hardware industry.
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Release Candidate for KDE 4.3.0 is Out
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KDE team released KDE 4.3.0 RC1. RC1 is an early candidate for what will become KDE 4.3.0 at the end of this month. Artwork has now also been merged, and KDE 4.3 will have a new Plasma look, sported by the new, light "Air" Plasma theme. Oxygen, the default in earlier versions of KDE 4 is still available as an option through.
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KDE's Kontact vs. GNOME's Evolution: Best Personal Info Manager?
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This is a comparison of two PIM suits for Linux. The author compares several aspects of Kontact and Evolution. The interface, the applications for email, address books, calendars, tasks, memos, and other features -- he looked at them all closely. Is there any reason to prefer one over the other?
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Lightweight But Powerful Image Editing Application: mtPaing
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GIMP, despite it's interface, is the best open-source image editor. But often all you want to do is simply resize a picture or a similar minor task and for that you could use an application such as mtPaint which has a lot of great features such as:
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KDE 4.3 Plasma Desktop Overview Screencast
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The KDE 4.3 Plasma screencast arrives! It's 10:36 in length and covers some of the nice improvements we've in Plasmaland for 4.3, including: the new Air theme, small panel sizes, KWin integration, stability & performance improvements, new widgets (including social desktop integration, remember the milk and unit converter), geolocation, ...
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Death knell heard for Microsoft and really all proprietary efforts
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Open source is headed our way in force. That’s the message coming out of every major manufacturing company today. No longer are companies willing to pay the price by catering to Microsoft and its proprietary architectures and related policies and procedures.
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Qt 4.5.2 and Qt Creator 1.2 Released
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Nokia today announced the release of updates to Qt: the cross-platform application and UI framework, and Qt Creator: the new cross-platform Qt Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Also released were updates to the Qt Visual Studio Add-in and the Qt Eclipse Integration.
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