Category Archives: Open Source

White House Open Source, Is Oracle Closing MySQL, and Skype Not Trustworthy?

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Top 5 – Open Source Utility Software

From a free antivirus to a sweet FTP – there are many ways to improve the performance of your computer for free! In this OS ALT I talk about some of the best open source utility software available today. Join the chat: bit.ly Get the Free Utility Software here: FileZilla – filezilla-project.org Clamtk / Clamav – clamtk.sourceforge.net Wireshark – www.wireshark.org Windirstat – sourceforge.net Kdirstat – launchpad.net Gparted – gparted.sourceforge.net

Disney anti-open-source propaganda

Shake It Up, Season 2, Episode 28, “Made In Japan”, originally aired 8/17/2012 on the Disney Channel Thank you anons for spreading this across 4chan, reddit, and numerous news sites. I have also received word that many have sent emails to the legendary Richard Stallman himself for his wise opinion on this dire situation. Epic lawsuits are possibly in order. Continue bringing out your pitchforks and spreading the word!

Pop culture references for open source principles

From Nine Inch Nails to Star Trek, open source principles are represented in much of pop culture. Ruth Suehle, community marketing leader for the Fedora Project and moderator of the Life channel at opensource.com, found this to be a great approach when explaining the open source way to people who don’t know much (or don’t want to know much) about it’s humble beginnings in software. Opensource.com covers the ways open source is far-reaching, into the areas of business, education, government, health, law, and life.

The Future is Open Source – Linux Gaming Faster Than Windows & Incredible OUYA News

Valve’s recent announcement that Left 4 Dead 2 runs better on Ubuntu than on Windows has caused a lot of excitement and controversy. || Free Audio book just for watching!audiblepodcast.com || Pre-order the gaming console here: www.ouya.tv Also, there’s some amazing partnerships and games coming to the Android video game console, OUYA! The Ouya is a , open, totally hackable Android-based console with a touchscreen controller, and free to play games. S

Hardening Windows processes

Didier Stevens is an IT security consultant working for a large financial corporation in Belgium. In this video recorded at Hack in The Box 2012 Amsterdam, Didier talks about hardening Windows processes and he discusses Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). Didier also introduces HeapLocker, his open source tool that mitigates heap spray attacks. Like Microsoft’s EMET, HeapLocker will pre-allocate virtual memory pages to protect the addresses often used in exploits with heap sprays. However, HeapLocker can go one step further than EMET – it can inject its own shellcode to warn the user in case of an attack. HeapLocker can also pre-allocate memory page zero. To detect heap sprays in action, HeapLocker monitors private memory usage and it can also monitor the application’s memory for NOP-sleds. For more information security news, articles, tips and tricks visit Help Net Security: www.net-security.org

5 Open Source Games that Don't Suck

For Linux, Mac and Windows! While most free and open source games don’t have the production values of big AAA titles, that doesn’t mean that the perception that they all “suck” is true. || Join the chat! twitter.com || In this week’s OS.ALT I talk about five of the most addicting open source games available to be downloaded free today. UFO: Alien Invasion – ufoai.sourceforge.net Nethack – www.nethack.org OpenTTD – www.openttd.org Battle for Wesnoth – www.wesnoth.org SuperTuxKart- supertuxkart.sourceforge.net

Ross Turk on Open Source Cloud and Ceph

In this Linux.com interview at OSCON 2012 Ross Turk, VP of Community at Inktank, discusses the definition of the open source cloud and his company’s role in the cloud stack. Inktank launched this spring as the enterprise support company behind the open source Ceph storage platform. The company is involved in the OpenStack and CloudStack projects as well as working with proprietary vendors.