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Rescuing a School Technology Program: Linux Thin-Clients

General 8076 Published 2005-09-20 12:30 by Philipp Esselbach 0

In this introductory article, Steve Hargadon, who spearheaded an OpenSource project to assist hurricane Katrina victims, helps identify the many benefits of using Linux Thin-clients.

Rescuing a School Technology Program: Linux Thin-Clients

Linux in Business: The Desktop is Dying

General 8076 Published 2005-09-14 14:30 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The desktop PC in business is a dying entity. Microsoft’s method of licensing and dominating PCs, and thereby the desktop, began over 20 years ago. It began in an era where the unique power of a personal computer offered an individual user freedom to operate applications and control data.

Linux in Business: The Desktop is Dying

Opera 10-year online anniversary party

General 8076 Published 2005-08-30 08:29 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Opera Software is giving away an ad-free version of their Opera browser as part of the Opera 10-year online anniversary party

Take a tour of Cloudscape and Apache Derby

General 8076 Published 2005-08-22 14:30 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The core of IBM Cloudscape is the Apache Derby open source database. With both you can take advantage of Java integration to create Java functions and stored procedures. This article shows you the fundamental architecture of Derby and how it can be embedded inside a client or a server application, the use of standard JDBC calls to manipulate the data and summary of the security mechanisms available in Derby.

Linux Compatible Compatibility Lists goes LGPL

General 8076 Published 2005-08-22 12:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Maybe you already noticed that the compatibility list backend engine has been finally updated. What you see is the first phase of a transformation to a free (as in freedom) user submitted compatibility database. All new submissions are automatically licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Perens shut out of OSI license committee

General 8076 Published 2005-08-22 11:15 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Bruce Perens, a luminary in the open-source software field, has been rejected in his attempt to join a new committee at the...

Perens shut out of OSI license committee

Sun Micro announces open-source DRM project

General 8076 Published 2005-08-22 05:52 by Philipp Esselbach 0

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O, weighing in on the fractious issue of protecting copyrighted digital content, on Sunday announced a project it calls the Open Media Commons initiative aimed at creating an open-source, royalty-free digital-rights management standard.

Sun Micro announces open-source DRM project

Life cycle of a Java Card security application

General 8076 Published 2005-08-19 10:26 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Smart cards take the functions you've come to expect in magnetic swipe cards to a whole new level: they can contain a large amount of data and even executable programs. The Java

Card spec brings the power of the Java language to smart cards. This article shows you how to use the Java Card's power to build Kerberos-based security to a mobile application with Java Card applets.

Servlet cookbook with Cloudscape, Derby and Tomcat recipies

General 8076 Published 2005-08-18 15:37 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Cloudscape and Derby are relational database managers implemented in Java. Tomcat is the reference servlet container implemented in Java. This article is a cookbook, providing step-by-step recipes for integrating them in three common scenarios: the prototype integration, the casual integration, and the enterprise integration.

(IN)SECURE Magazine Issue 3 is here

General 8076 Published 2005-08-15 20:01 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The third issue of (IN)SECURE, a free digital security magazine published in PDF format, has been released: http://www.insecuremag.com

The covered topics are:

- Security vulnerabilities, exploits and patches
- PDA attacks: palm sized devices - PC sized threats
- Adding service signatures to Nmap
- CSO and CISO - perception vs. reality in the security kingdom
- Unified threat management: IT security's silver bullet?
- The reality of SQL injection
- 12 months of progress for the Microsoft Security Response Centre
- Interview with Michal Zalewski, security researcher
- OpenSSH for Macintosh
- Method for forensic validation of backup tapes

GPL upgrade due in 2007

General 8076 Published 2005-08-11 06:24 by Philipp Esselbach 0

SAN FRANCISCO -- The planned upgrade to the GNU General Public License (GPL) will be ready by 2007, according to an industry official involved with the project.

GPL upgrade due in 2007

OSDL announces Patent Commons project

General 8076 Published 2005-08-10 10:54 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global group dedicated to promoting Linux, on Tuesday announced a new initiative, called Patent Commons, to collect the software licenses and patents pledged to the open source community into a central repository to make them easier to access by developers, and encourage more patent holders to pledge their intellectual property to the cause.

OSDL announces Patent Commons project

Rescuing a School Technology Program: Linux Thin-Clients

Linux in Business: The Desktop is Dying

Opera 10-year online anniversary party

Take a tour of Cloudscape and Apache Derby

Linux Compatible Compatibility Lists goes LGPL

Perens shut out of OSI license committee

Sun Micro announces open-source DRM project

Life cycle of a Java Card security application

Servlet cookbook with Cloudscape, Derby and Tomcat recipies

(IN)SECURE Magazine Issue 3 is here

GPL upgrade due in 2007

OSDL announces Patent Commons project

Database start-ups bet on open source

GPL3 first public draft due early 2006

EU plan could put open sourcers in court

Firefox downloaded 75 million times

Open Source OS/2 Petition - Soon to be Send

New trial date in IBM-SCO case

Novell loses bid to dismiss SCO suit

JavaOne: Sun mulls open-sourcing Java Desktop System

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