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Ma.gnolia Looks to Open Source for the Future

Social bookmark sharing site Ma.gnolia has long been shadowed by the more popular de.licio.us, even with all the issues that the latter site has had with pushing out timely updates. But at today's Gnomedex conference, the Ma.gnolia team announced a new effort that they hope will help them leap ahead: they plan to rewrite, federate, and open source their code. It's a bold step, but will it work out in the end?


Bringing Medical Records to Developing Countries--OSS Style

Ever heard of OpenMRS? It's a community-developed, open source electronic medical record system framework. As anybody in the United States knows, it's not that easy to put together any kind of functional electronic system for medical records. OpenMRS has an additional challenge, though: It's focused on making these systems work in developing countries, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria cause suffering for millions of people. OpenMRS helps educate and support people in developing countries on how to keep up a sustainable medical records system. Now, open source business intelligence software provider Pentaho is part of the mix.


12 Resources for Free Open Source Tutorials and Tools

Since its inception, we've tried to make collections of tips, pointers to free tutorials, and advice on the best applications a regular part of the editorial content here at OStatic. These have included screenshot-driven guided tours to how to use top tier OSS applications, pointers to free tutorials on everything from AJAX to OpenOffice, and guidance on finding free open source webinars on topics such as MySQL and Ubuntu. We're in the process of putting up a dedicated repository for all of these, but in the meantime, here are 12 of our most popular educational roundup posts.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Q&A: Red Hat's JBoss comes into its own.....

SugarCRM named best open source technology.....

Build your own cloud with Eucalyptus.....

Sun says open source storage is catching on.....

FOSS for students.....



OStatic Offers 12 Months of Free Hosting for Java Developers

Glassfish LogoThe open source world provides several technology choices for developers looking to build web-based applications. Java developers aiming to work on the open source application server Glassfish now have some free infrastructure they can leverage. OStatic is offering 100 free hosted accounts to developers looking to build web applications powered by the open source Glassfish Application Server and the open source MySQL database.


Interview: Mumble Does OSS VoIP Chats for Online Games

Voice chats have emerged as integral parts of many online games in recent years--part of the social gaming trend--and VoIP solutions such as Teamspeak have been created in response. Mumble is an open source project that has gained an audience in this arena for the low-latency game chatting it facilitates. It offers noise suppression, gain control, and support for multiple audio standards. It's client-server focused, and does need its own dedicated server. We checked in with Thorvald Natvig, lead developer of Mumble, on open source and where Mumble is going.


SFLC's Roadmap for Open Source Software Vendors

We've covered the Software Freedom Law Center's GPL enforcement efforts several times in the past. But their efforts on behalf of the free software community extend far beyond trying to right wrongs in court; they also do what they can to prevent the wrongs from happening in the first place. Their latest move in this direction is an online white paper titled A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance.


Upgrading Your Linux Box? Read Up on SELinux, and Improve Security

I just spent several days helping to upgrade an organization's servers from Red Hat Enterprise 3 to the latest version, Red Hat Enterprise 5.2. One of the most important, and impressive, issues we dealt with during this upgrade was SELinux, or security-enhanced Linux. SELinux offers a great deal of functionality, and helps to protect Linux boxes from a variety of threats. It forces system administrators to learn a new vocabulary, as well as permissions, logfiles, and programs with which they were previously unfamiliar. Fortunately, there are many good tutorials for SELinux on the Web.



British Company Launches Linux-Powered Internet Radio

When you grow tired of watching programs on TiVo, or on your Linux-based personal video recorder, now you can flip on your Linux-powered radio and listen to some tunes. British radio manufacturer Pure announced the upcoming launch of its newest product, Evoke Flow, an Internet radio that runs on the MeOS Linux platform.



Mozilla Plans to Nudge Firefox 2.0 Users to Upgrade

If you've been on the fence about upgrading to Firefox 3.0, Mozilla is planning to give you a little nudge. Sometime within the next week, people using Firefox 2.0.0.16 will see a request to upgrade and though you'll have the option to decline, it's likely Firefox will ask again anyway.

 



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