When considering the issue of best practice as it applies to the administration of Unix servers, there are a number of questions you might want to ask yourself. They begin with “What is best practice?”, quickly followed by “How do you pursue best practice?”, and “How do you know when you’re meeting best practice?” Read…
Month: March 2015
Cities: Skylines
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Cities: Skylines is the first foray into the city building genre by Finnish developer Colossal Order . They were previously responsible for the Cities in Motion transport management simulation franchise, but have experimented with city building elements in their second game. Source: Tech
What's New for You This March in Open Source CMS
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Is open source the next big thing? At least that’s what it seems, based on a burst of unrelated news in the past month. As CMSWire writer Miles Kehoe explained a few weeks ago, “Open source software has gone from quirky and free to mainstream for the enterprise.” Source: Tech
OpenSSL To Undergo Major Audit
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The first major public audit of OpenSSL will soon be underway, backed by the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative — a .2 million open-source research fund established last spring in the wake of Heartbleed. The audit will be one of the first well-funded efforts to harden open-source infrastructure, historically financed only by researchers’ free time,…
Statement in support of Software Freedom Conservancy and Christoph Hellwig, GPL enforcement lawsuit
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On Thursday, March 5, 2015, Christoph Hellwig, with support from the Software Freedom Conservancy, filed suit in Hamburg, Germany against VMware Global, Inc. Hellwig is a prominent contributor to the kernel Linux, releasing his contributions under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. VMware, like everyone, is free to use, modify,…
Why 2016 is Going to be the Year of DevOps
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DevOps is a philosophy and a cultural shift rather than a new market say analysts. Read more at ZDNet News Source: Linux
Automate Your Infrastructure with Ansible
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Learn more about why Ansible is a valuable tool that provides a coherent model for safely provisioning, configuring and orchestrating multiple remote machines. Read more at DevX Source: Linux
'I can't figure out why someone would buy a Tizen phone': Ubuntu boss talks Android alternatives
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The smartphone market has been a two-horse race almost from day one. But Apple and Google may have had their own way for too long, and many of the industry’s biggest players are looking for an alternative to Android. Source: Tech
China Wants Silicon Valley's Encryption Keys: Good Business, or Get Out?
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China wants the encryption keys from U.S. technology companies as part of a counter-terrorism law. The draft law leaves U.S. tech giants with two options: Play ball or get out. Read more at ZDNet News Source: Linux
Perforce and Interset Deliver Industry's First Intellectual Property Threat Detection Integrated with Source Code and Content Management
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Helix Threat Detection Uses Behavioural Analytics to Safeguard Source Code and Other Intellectual Property against Insider Threats, Account Takeovers and Malicious Attacks WOKINGHAM, UK. (March 3, 2015) – Perforce Software and Interset today announced Perforce Helix Threat Detection, a security solution for the Perforce Helix source code management (SCM) and content collaboration platform. The jointly…