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Daniel J. Bernstein is well known for writing top-quality, secure software for Unix systems. But a combination of unusual coding and administrative practices, together witih a source-only license, kept DJB's programs relegated to a small number of Unix gurus.
Now that the programs have been released to the public domain, might they have a chance of becoming truly popular?
Have you hit a brick wall when working with Ruby on Rails? Do you want to understand what is going on behind the scenes in your Rails application? Are you looking to squeeze the best possible speed out of your Rails apps? Advanced Rails might well be the book you're looking for.
Ruby on Rails has become, over the last few years, the latest hit among Web application developers. While it is often compared with Perl, PHP, and Java, Rails is not a programming language.ﾠ
Red Hat has made its security certificate system, originally obtained from AOL, open source.....
Bruce Perens, who is credited by many as coining the term open source, now wants to get onto the board of the body he founded, the Open Source Initiative.....
Joomla, an open source content management system, is starting to get more notice.....
This is a 1.0 that I wasn't sure would ever come. No, I'm not talking about the Duke Nukem game that's been vaporware for the last decade or so. I'm talking about Wine 1.0, which is slated for release on June 6th of this year. That's a mere 15 years after development was started.
Wine, if you're not already familiar with it, is an application that allows Windows apps to run unmodified on Linux and other *nix operating systems.
We certainly do love our media. We upload our photos to public sharing Web sites, download videos to watch on our laptops, and stream radio stations through our browsers. That's a lot of media to manage -- and leave it to the open source community to come up with great ways to help us do just that.
Here at OStatic, we concentrate on open source applications, operating systems, issues, and the business of open source, but freeware and truly useful free services are always on my radar even if they're not from the open source world. One example of a free service that will probably appeal to open sourcers as well as non-open sourcers is ADrive, which will give anyone 50GB of free online storage--far more than existing providers of free online storage, such as XDrive--are doling out. One reason I thought I'd post this is that a colleague of mine--a well-known web designer--pinged me to ask where he could get the most free online storage, and he was sure that the holy grail was XDrive.
