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Articles for the keywords: FOSS
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19 Jan 2013
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Java Security Vulnerability [29398]
FOSS Force January 11th, 2013
"When the Homeland Security folks get into the mix and urge all computer users to disable Java in their browsers, you know its serious," says Chris Hall in "FOSS Force".
"Indeed, the exploit announced yesterday seems to affect all operating systems, including Linux, and its already being exploited. According to Trend Micro the flaw is already being used by blackhat toolkits mainly to distribute ransomware. In a blog posted yesterday, the company advises all users to disable or uninstall Java..."
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29 Nov 2012
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Oracle Solaris 11.1 Blog Post Roundup [28670]
Posts by Many Hands
The release of Oracle Solaris 11.1 has prompted numerous posts, some of which have been collected by Larry Wake, including such bloggers as Darren Moffat, Glynn Foster, Alan Coopersmith, Karoly Vegh, Tim Foster, Bart Smaalders, and Peter Dennis, whose contributions extend from "What's New in Solaris 11.1?" through "Solaris 11.1: Changes to included FOSS packages," to "IPS changes in Solaris 11.1, brought to you by the letter P."] Wake provides links to each of his selections and a link to Markus Weber's list of interesting posts about Oracle Solaris 11, as well as his own shortcut on searching for Solaris posts by tag.
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24 Nov 2012
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Why Use Expensive Iron and Proprietary Software When White Boxes and FOSS Will Do? [28593]
FCI President Howard Fosdick Finds Them Quite Good Enough
Generic computers and open source software are all Howard Fosdick, President of FCI, needs for his operations. He uses inexpensive stock hardware and software, which is easily replaceable and delivers 100% availability, along with high security and good privacy. Fosdick runs resource-heavy apps like enterprise DBMS and website generators with a few GB of memory and a low-end dual core processor: essentially a five year old machine; cheap enough to keep several on hand. Fosdick advises against ever keeping all one's data on a single machine, and the same with software. File interchange is the most important inter-machine demand Fosdick makes of his iron.
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05 Nov 2012
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What Do Download Numbers Really Tell You? [28311]
According to Simon Phipps, Not Much About Adoption
Simon Phipps, writing for InfoWorld, disputes the notion that the number of downloads says anything beyond a solution's brand strength and market opportunity. He cites the recent flurry of downloads of Windows 8 (four million in the first three days of GA) as evidence that downloads are easy to measure but reveal nothing concerning customer satisfaction or even implementation. Requests for upgrades and/or support offer a better measure of adoption for open source, Phipps asserts. The metrics provided by Ohloh, which came too late for Sun, deliver much more useful and telling information on the state of the open source software community.
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