Stefano Sasso

Geek Trio: "Everyone loves open source software. After all… its free! Many times I’ve heard the question, “what is the most popular open source application of all time?” I decided to find out."

Linux Today Blog: "After reading Electronics Manufacturers Use US Legal System to Thwart Hardware 'Hacks' I was all set to type a fiery response, but Linux Today readers beat me to it. In a nutshell, the tech industry is accelerating its attacks on our rights to do what we want with our own property."

The H Open: "Improvements include graphics drivers for recent Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new addition is the LogFS SSD file system."

Experimenting with GNU/Linux: "There are several graphical front ends for clam av which can make your life easy. The most popular among them are clamtk and Klamav."

Cyber Cynic: "...the Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to growing Linux, has launched a new Linux merchandise store featuring a line of exclusive and original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect "geek culture.""

The H Open: "The Japanese Fixstars Corporation, which specialises in software for the Cell processors, has announced the release of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) 6.2 for CUDA, the first enterprise Linux OS optimised for GPU computing."

Christian Engstr�m, Pirate MEP: "ACTA - Epic win! The European Parliament today voted on a resolution that demands transparency in the ACTA negotiations, and that the Commission puts all papers on the table."

Mandriva press release: Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux solutions publisher, will display its latest products at the 2010 Solutions Linux exhibition, from March 16 to 18 at the porte de Versailles Exhibition Centre – Hall 1 – Stand E 29.

Mozilla.org: "On March 10th, 2010, Mozilla announced a public process to help create the next update of the Mozilla Public License. Here you can find information on the process, details, and learn how to get involved."

LinuxPlanet: "In this ongoing series on lightweight Linux desktops, Juliet Kemp takes us on a tour of Window Maker, the popular fast, lightweight window manager based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface. How does Window Maker measure up in this era of fancy special effects GUIs?"

Linux Magazine: "One of the sorely missing aspects of storage is analyzing and understanding the IO patterns of applications. This article will examine some techniques for performing IO profiling of an application to illustrate what information you can gain."

eHomeUpgrade: "Attached here is a video from Mobile World Congress 2010 with Freescale’s product manager of software development explaining that Freescale’s sub-$200 ARM (i.MX51 Cortex-A8) tablets will be compatible with just about any Linux distribution that supports ARM..."

Linux User and Developer: "eBox (or eBox Platform, to give it its full name) can play multiple roles. It can act as a network gateway, an infrastructure manager, a unified threat manager, an office server, a unified communication server or a combination of any of these."

LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 6 EMR applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

Open Enterprise: "It seems that, having lost its position as monarch of the world of computing, Microsoft has decided to become the industry jester."

How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.4

This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.4 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against bufferoverflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections."

Tech Crunch: "The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, has launched a merchandise store where people can purchase a newly launched line of original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect �geek culture.�"

Free Software Magazine: "Barely a day goes by when you switch on your computer, plug into the web and come across yet another deranged scheme to restrict freedom in the name of security, safety or morality. RIAA, DMCA, RIPA, Pallidium computing, the list almost seems to grow exponentially."

Dopo il poco successo riscontrato dall’ultimo kernel (il 2.6.33), che come abbiamo scritto secondo alcuni test sarebbe per diversi aspetti molto meno performante dei due precedenti, Linus Torvalds ha annunciato la prima release candidate di quello nuovo, che contiene già 400 mila righe di codice in più.

Una tonnellata di cambi, annuncia Linus, con circa la metà relativa ai driver. Un 5% riguarda la nuova subdirectory sound e un 10% i firmware. Il resto è diviso fra update e altre cose, fra cui il supporto al nuovo filesystem logfs. In termini di numeri, sono 6.500 i file cambiati e 175 mila le linee di codice cancellate.

Sean Michael Kerner ha però notato che gli 850 developers che hanno contribuito a questa release sono decisamente meno dei 1.150 che finirono il kernel 2.6.30. E nel post che ha pubblicato sottolinea come di strano ci sia anche il fatto che il kernel 2.6.33 è stato rilasciato solo poche settimane fa, con non poche novità.

Foto | Pleeker

What I Couldn't Say...: "I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too."