Aseem Sharma got his first major exposure to open source in a large scale enterprise setting, but now he’s helping businesses of all sizes make use of the open source software. Source: Tech
Month: December 2013
Gift giving gnu advises shoppers to "give freely"
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•BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, December 20th, 2013 — Yesterday, Free Software Foundation activists visited the Boston Apple store to raise awareness of more ethical alternatives for technology gifts. The activists were accompanied by a gnu (the free software movement’s buffalo-like mascot) and sported Santa hats in the spirit of the season. Shoppers were surprised…
Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified to Respect Your Freedom
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•BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, December 19, 2013 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to Gluglug X60 laptops. The RYF certification mark means that the product meets the FSF’s standards in regard to users’ freedom, control over the product, and privacy. This is the first laptop to receive…
Take the 2013 Puppet Labs DevOps Survey and Win Cool Prizes
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•This is a guest post by Nigel Kersten, Puppet Labs Last year we partnered with Gene Kim and Jez Humble to survey over 4,000 technical professionals across a wide range of businesses to better understand how the collection of practices we call DevOps had evolved since the label was first coined by Patrick Debois in 2009. This year, we’re pleased to…
Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says
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•The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. Source: Tech
Security in 2014: What are the Experts Predicting?
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•I get a lot of security predictions pitched at me and I was intrigued by quite a few this year. There’s good and bad news, and good and bad predictions. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
German coalition favors German-owned or open source software, aims to lock NSA out
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•Germany’s new coalition government listed open source software among its IT policy priorities, and said it will take steps to protect its citizens against espionage threats from the NSA and other foreign intelligence agencies. Source: Tech
What a Successful Exploit of a Linux Server Looks Like
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•Andre’ DiMino Like most mainstream operating systems these days, fully patched installations of Linux provide a level of security that requires a fair amount of malicious hacking to overcome. Those assurances can be completely undone by a single unpatched application, as Andre’ DiMino has demonstrated when he documented an Ubuntu machine in his lab being…
Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads
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•This IDC whitepaper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today, commercial Linux has become a key platform across many workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to support the opportunity for Linux…
March Communications Launches New Services, Expands Client Roster
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•March Communications unveils three new service areas and announces the addition of nine new clients as 2013 ends on a high. Source: Tech