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Security After Heartbleed – OpenSSL and the Alternatives
The Heartbleed bug shocked the security community and seriously damaged the reputation of OpenSSL. Luckily, alternatives such as LibreSSL, PolarSSL, and GnuTLS are waiting in the wings.
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glibc Vulnerability Puts Certain Linux Systems at Risk
Security flaw allows remote execution of unpatched systems.
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LibreOffice 4.4 Arrives
Free productivity suite comes with improved interoperability features.
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Why Projects Need Task-Based Documentation
Documentation in free software has improved immensely in the last 15 years. At least most projects have some, which is more than could be said when I first started using Linux. However, far too much of it stops with descriptions of menus and dialog windows instead of being structured by tasks and users.
(more)UCARP
We show how to create highly available SmartOS zones using UCARP.
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SLES 12
The latest new version of SUSE Linux Enterprise offers some promising new features for admins.
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Check Bash Shell Scripts for Errors with ShellCheck
Before you run a Bash shell script, it's always a good idea to check it for possible errors and inconsistencies, and the handy ShellCheck tool can help you to identify the most common culprits.
(more)Zookeeper
Anyone who manages many clusters should be meticulous in ensuring that organized processes prevail in the distributed server zoo. We describe how Apache ZooKeeper fulfills this task.
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