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Systemd at the Command Line
Wondering what all the fuss is about systemd? We explain the basic concepts and capabilities of the new system management suite – coming soon to a distro near you. (more)
Mozilla Firefox Blocks Flash
More embarrassment for Adobe's embattled multimedia tool (more)
Lenovo and Canonical Announce Laptop Deal
PC vendor will pre-install Ubuntu on portables in India. (more)
How I Marketed Free Software
In 2000-01, I was director of marketing and communications at Progeny Linux Systems. As an early hire in a startup, I had many jobs, but the most important was to create name recognition for the company. Recently, I came across three ads I created to introduce the company, and, with no false modesty, I discovered that they held up surprisingly well as examples of how to market a project or company in free and open source software. (more)
Timeline Project
Timeline manages and visualizes time sequences in a simple and intuitive way. (more)
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Snapper
Snapper lets you restore a system to its previous state – with a little help from Btrfs snapshots. (more)
RIP SSLv3
The Internet community officially banishes the notoriously unsafe Secure Sockets Layer protocol. (more)
The New Paradigm is Linux
The first time I sensed the potential of free software was when I tried GNU Parted. As an OS/2 user, I had been impressed by PartitionMagic, but if Parted could do the same functions reliably, how could proprietary software like PartitionMagic hope to compete? (more)
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24th USENIX Security Symposium
Join us in Washington, D.C., August 12-14, 2015, for the 24th USENIX Security Symposium!
USENIX Security ’15 brings together researchers, practitioners, systems programmers and engineers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks. The 3-day program includes a Keynote Address by Dr. Richard J. Danzig; Invited Talks by Mike Walker, Katherine Fisher, and Christopher Kern; panel discussions; over 60 refereed paper presentations; and evening events including Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, a poster session, and more.
Register by July 20, 2015, and save. Additional discounts are available!
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