"Software patents are clearly a problem," Linux founder Linus Torvalds says at the OSDL Linux Summit.
Read more
Read more
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has raised $4.25 million to fund a new organization that will provide free legal services to open-source developers. The organization, called the Software Freedom Law Center, is expected to eventually employ as many as 15 full-time lawyers.
Read more
Read more
From LinuxAppeal.net:
xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) is a toolkit that can be used for the deployment and administration of complex Linux clusters. It makes simple clusters easy and complex clusters possible. The new release of Version 1.2.0-pre8 provides major enhancements for IPMI-based service processors and support for Werewolf-style, diskless computation nodes. ChangeLog.pdf contains in-depth details of the update.
Use this free Diagnostic Tool to help you better understand information provided by your JVM (Java Virtual Machine) garbage collector. It will analyze critical issues in great detail such as quantities of heap memory involved, frequency of the garbage collection, time spent in different phases of garbage collection, and much more. Recently updated to manage very big heap sizes.
Desktop OS has posted an editorial about experiences in the Desktop Linux community
Red Hat and Novell will ratchet up their one-on-one competition in the Linux operating system wars next month when each company delivers significant upgrades to their respective server-based products.
Read more
Read more
Linus Torvalds accepts support for the InfiniBand high-speed networking technology into the latest version of the Linux kernel.
Read more
Read more
This Eclipse based technology operating on Linux uses XML Schemas and SOAP messages to ensure your Web Service interface has no features that could open attack paths hacker’s use to corrupt the WSDL (web service description language). Once a WSDL file (and any nested files it imports) passes all the extensive checks, it defines a "safe" interface that is guaranteed to resist any potential hacker attempts.
Randy Dunlap will be giving at talk titled "Getting Involved in Linux Development" at SCALE 3x next month. His talk talk begins with a description of the Linux kernel janitors project and how it works, then move on to how anyone can become involved in kernel patches and development. In addition Norman McIntire will also give a talk on developing Linux drivers. If you've been itching to get under the Linux kernel's hood SCALE 3x might be a good learning resource.
The DB2 II family supports a wide variety of data sources, including commercial relational DBMSs, non-relational DBMSs, mainframe data, XML files, Web services, message queues and more. Learn how to configure DB2 II to read and write to tables and views managed by MySQL, an open source DBMS. Once you've done this, you'll be able to join and union data in your MySQL database with other corporate data accessible to your DB2 II federated database.
Kevin Milne has written Z4CK, a cyber thriller based around Duncan Steele, a hacker who creates the 'magic bullet' that lets him by-pass any network security. Duncan uses Z4CK meaning Zaurus-ACK, compiled on the OpenZaurus OS to do this.
Unlike Films like 'The Net', Z4CK gives a realistic insight into hacker tools and techniques. The book was written with a Zaurus SL-5500 and PocketTop keyboard. Z4CK features wireless hacking with the Zaurus, and a view of how an Open Source future might be.
The first 6 chapters of the book are FREE, in PDF, Plucker or Palm DOC format. The full electronic version is $3. Surf to http://www.z4ck.org and take a look.
Signed copies are available from the website at £7.50, or through Amazon.com at around $12.
Unlike Films like 'The Net', Z4CK gives a realistic insight into hacker tools and techniques. The book was written with a Zaurus SL-5500 and PocketTop keyboard. Z4CK features wireless hacking with the Zaurus, and a view of how an Open Source future might be.
The first 6 chapters of the book are FREE, in PDF, Plucker or Palm DOC format. The full electronic version is $3. Surf to http://www.z4ck.org and take a look.
Signed copies are available from the website at £7.50, or through Amazon.com at around $12.
This article reviews common issues of wireless security, and shows how to use open source software to suss out wireless networks, get information about them, and start recognizing common security problems. You will learn how build a lightweight wireless sniffer that runs on open source software and see how simple it is to interact with wireless networks.
Development is distinctively breezy with Groovy, and its lightweight syntax can alleviate some of the verbosity of JDBC in Java. This article shows you how to use GroovySql to build a simple data-reporting application. GroovySql combines closures and iterators to ease Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) programming by shifting the burden of resource management from you to the Groovy framework itself.
The IBM Integration plug-in for Derby provides a seamless integration between Eclipse and Apache Derby. It enables the use of the Derby database JAR files as an installable component to Eclipse. Additionally the ij SQL scripting tool and the Apache Derby Network Server can be run from the Eclipse console.
Bob is the VP of IBM Standards. He says: "To be clear, this is not a "donation," but rather a pledge of the patents to seed and then maintain a patent commons for open source projects." Go here to see his other comments and his extensive list of links to articles on the subject from all the major developer and business publications. There is also a link to the Patent Description Document, which provides the nitty-gritty of the patent release.
A repository designed for organizing assets that enables developers to modify, view documentation (generated automatically from the manifest), track feedback, track use metrics, search, query and package according to the Object Management Group's (OMG) Reusable Asset Specification (RAS). This technology is ideal for facilitating Linux small team development and is a specification recently adopted by the OMG.
Read more
Read more
OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for Jan 12, 2005.
OSDir has posted an OpenOffice.org 1.9.69 Base Screenshot Tour
The Southern California Linux Expo has announced plans to host a panel discussion on the future of open source and voice over IP technologies at SCALE 3x. SCALE 3x, the Third Annual Southern California Linux Expo is the premier grass roots Linux and Open Source conference.
