Space Cube - The World's Smallest Linux PC

Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces...   [more]

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Linux Foundation announces end user summit

The target is businesses which are heavy users of Linux and open source in their enterprises. So no surprise its first keynote will be from Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, with a Q&A moderated by Foundation executive...   [more]

Tags: education, events, foundation, general, linux, linux server os, marketing, summit, support

Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?

Perspectives, hatched at Carnegie Mellon, thwarts so-called "Man in the Middle" attacks on SSH (secure) sites by creating a virtual notary that can check the validity of an unsigned security certificate.more]

Tags: applications, distributions, features, firefox, general, internet, mass market, matched, microsoft, privacy

Second Ubuntu Developer Week!

The second Ubuntu Developer Week will be held from Sep 1st to Sep 5th in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net. Digg It! ‘There are Wiki docs, MOTU Videos, MOTU Interviews and we’re seeing more and more...   [more]

Tags: developer, events, questions, ubuntu, upstream

Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack

Tech Groupie writes "The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls 'active attacks' against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears...   [more]

Tags: access, attack, compromised, linux, rootkit, security

A way to assign copyright globally

The FLA mainly takes the burden of worrying about international copyright law out of the programmer's hands and places it in the hands of people who care about such things.
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Tags: assign, copyright, development, foss, general, globally, government, gpl, hands, legal

Space Cube – the World's Smallest Linux PC

Barence writes "Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and...   [more]

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Gaining RAM For Free, Through Software

wakaramon writes with a piece from IEEE Spectrum about an experimental approach to squeezing more usable storage out of a device's existing RAM; the researchers were using a Linux-based PDA as their testbed, and claim...   [more]

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Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries

Dynamically linked shared libraries are an important aspect of GNU/Linux. They allow executables to dynamically access external functionality at run time and thereby reduce their overall memory footprint. This article...   [more]

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