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Linux: Where the Jobs (and Bigger Salaries) Are

Numerous studies have emerged over the past few years indicating that Linux skills are a hot item in the IT hiring market, but the Linux Foundation recently published a brand-new report suggesting that the search for such talent is taking on a new level of urgency.

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Open Minded

Three Views on Creating Open Source Developer Communities by Stephen Walli

I recently attended a great little conference about the craft of software development and where itâ€™s going. It was called Monki Gras, and it was run by the fine analysts at Redmonk. It was held in London, UK. Three talks provided three great perspectives on the care and feeding of a developer community:Kohsuke Kawaguchi (@kohsukekawa) talked about making everything relentlessly easier to attract new collaborators based on his experiences in the Jenkins community.Dave Neary (@nearyd) of Gnome...

Open Source Fact and Fiction

How Much Do You Really Know About Network Virtualization, SDN and OpenFlow? by Alan Shimel

Most of you reading this have heard of OpenFlow and some of the recent announcements regarding it. HP announced a whole new lineup of network solutions that takes advantage of this exciting new software standard that promises to let you control and program your network like you would your computer. Some call this network virtualization capability software defined networking or SDN. There is much more to SDN though then OpenFlow. Network protocols you already use like SNMP for instance is an...

Open Source Fact and Fiction

DotNetNuke Launches Re-branded, Re-energized 3rd Party Marketplace by Alan Shimel

DotNetNuke the leading open source CMS for the .Net platform today announced the relaunching and re-branding of their 3rd party marketplace formerly called Snowcovered. The new store has over 10,000 add ons for DotNetNuke built websites by a wide variety of developers. This represents the final integration of the Snowcovered aquisition by DotNetNuke back in 2009.In addition to the number of applications, the new store sports a number of new features making it easier for both customers to...

Open Source Matters

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix Rolls Out by Rikki Endsley

"Before anyone gets all worked up and conspiratorial: everything in the remix is available from the standard Software Centre," Shuttleworth explains. "Packages out, packages in. No secret sauce for customers only; weâ€™re not creating a RHEL, we already have an enterprise-quality release cadence called LTS and we like it just the way it is."Shuttleworth says that the remix was first discussed at the developer summit in October 2011. "Remixes can include non-free software and still retain the...

Open Source Fact and Fiction

Ruh Roh, Now The Bad Guys Are Using Open Source Too by Alan Shimel

What is good for the goose, is good for the gander, right? Open source has been so successful in giving us software like Linux, Apache, Hadoop, etc., why wouldn't the open source method work with other types of software? Probably no one expected that the criminals behind vast malware trojans would adopt open source methods to make their malware more dangerous, but they have. According to this report from Seculert Research, the makers of Citadel, a variant of the Zeus Trojan...

Google Reed-er

More Google Wallet follies by Brad Reed

Well, well, well! It looks as though Google Wallet users who don't root their Android phones have something to worry about after all! And when you read about the details of this particular flaw, you will slap your head because it's a major bone-headed error on Google's part. Go read The Smartphone Champ for the scoop: All a person who wants to access your Google Wallet has to do is go into the application settings menu and clear the data for the Google Wallet app....

Google Reed-er

Google to users: "Hey dummies! Don't root your Android phone and expect Google Wallet to be safe!" by Brad Reed

So website categorization company zvelo caused a wee bit of a stir today when it exposed a potential security vulnerability in Google's near field communications (NFC)-enabled Google Wallet mobile payment platform. You can see a video of their efforts below:To sum up: zvelo created an applciation that's capable of retrieving your Google Wallet PIN from your device, meaning that if someone were to steal your phone and use the application, they could use Google Wallet to go on a spending...

Google Reed-er

My favorite Android browser is... something you may not have heard of! by Brad Reed

So as you've likely seen, Google is finally releasing a mobile version of Chrome for Android, albeit on a very limited basis. This is good news for a lot of reasons, the chief being that the default Android browser is pretty boring and nowhere near up to Chrome's standards. The folks at Opera have predictably been all like, "Uh-UH! You don't need no Chrome browser to have a first-rate browsing experience on Android! We've been there for years!"But I've actually found a...

Open Source Matters

Controlling Liquor Loss with Linux by Rikki Endsley

The Replay Lounge in Lawrence, Kansas, ranked number 64 on Esquire's Best Bars in America 2011 list and landed spot number 31 on Complex Magazine's 2010 list of the 50 best college bars in America. Since opening back in 1993, this popular local bar has been best known for its pinball machines, ice cold PBR, mix of colorful characters, and some of the best live music you'll find anywhere. Few people know that inside this dark little bar, Linux servers and some open source-based scripts are...

Open Source Fact and Fiction

Without It's Own Horse HTC Could Be On The Sidelines by Alan Shimel

The mobile device market is a brutal place where only the very strongest survive. If you don't have your own horse in the race, you can easily go from first to back in the pack pretty quickly. Now it looks like one time industry darling, HTC may be one of the first casualties of the Google-Motorola Mobility merger. HTC rode the Android wave and was one of the leading Android headset makers, even producing a Google Nexus phone. But with Google's own Motorola rising rapidly and Samsung becoming...

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