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Microsoft sabotaging GPL, claims Samba

Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals. Read more »

Linux Foundation releases developer guide

The Linux Foundation has released a guide for developers who wish to contribute Linux code. Read more »

Samba 3.2 adds cluster support

The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes. Read more »

PHP, Python, Samba get security tick of approval

Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects. Read more »

Flaws found in open source codes

A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors. Read more »

25-year-old BSD bug found and fixed

A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at least 25 years old. Read more »

Sun's OpenSolaris ready for developers

Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday — a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo. Read more »

Microsoft publishes 14,000 pages of protocol docs

Microsoft has made public over 14,000 pages of preliminary technical documentation on the protocols built into its Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 products. Read more »

rproxy set for revival

Andrew Tridgell, the author of the Samba file server, has announced his plans to revive rproxy as part of the OLPC project. Read more »

Samba: EU made Microsoft talk again

Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit. Read more »

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10 Linux file managers worth checking out

If you've never given your file manager much thought, maybe it's time to look at the wide range of features offered by Linux file management tools. Read more »

Five reasons why your company should hire open source developers

Open source has infiltrated so many levels of IT over the past decade. It has been a slow process; however, little by little, it has become a normality. And even though many companies are adopting open source software, they are hesitant to bring open source developers into the fold. Why is this? Read more »

10 outstanding Linux backup utilities

A dependable backup tool is not a luxury -- everyone needs to have one. But that doesn’t mean you need to spend a fortune to get the feature set that meets your needs. Read more »

The 10 most useful Linux commands

Maybe the command line isn’t your favorite place to hang out, but to be an effective Linux admin, you need to be able to wield a few essential commands. These 10 commands are guaranteed to simplify your Linux admin life. Read more »

The 10 most useful Linux commands

Maybe the command line isn't your favourite place to hang out, but to be an effective Linux admin, you need to be able to wield a few essential commands. This article says these 10 are guaranteed to simplify your Linux admin life -- and explains why. Read more »

Microsoft plays open but patent jaws still have teeth

Despite Microsoft's claim it will not sue developers that build free open source software on Microsoft platforms, a caveat leaves a yawning space for its legal teeth to gnash those that commercialise the software. Read more »

Authentication caching with nscd

Distributed authentication is increasingly popular as home networks add more computers and business networks continue to expand. Using a central authentication system such as LDAP or NIS with other technologies like Kerberos has become somewhat of a standard in large networks. Read more »

Fix Linux when it won't start

No OS is 100 percent foolproof. Eventually, even Linux may not boot one day when you want it to. Read more »

Get the most from the du and df commands

While Linux has a number of very nice GUIs, using the command-line interface can be faster and produce more information than GUI tools can, especially when it comes to reporting and viewing disk usage. Read more »

Automount filesystems with flexible AutoFS tool

AutoFS comes standard on almost every Linux system and let's you use automounting to have remote NFS shares available on demand. Read more »

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Salmonberry or Samba? What's in a name for Tridge

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Acknowledgement tickles Samba's fancy

With the normal TCP/IP setup it can take up to two hours for a dropped connection to terminate -- Andrew Tridgell explains how the Samba project faced this problem when creating clustered Samba. Read more »

Samba author: GPLv3 has further to go

The creator of the Samba project says GPLv3 could have gone further in its anti-DRM provisions. Read more »

Supermarket Sweep -- Club Builder

Microsoft wants Yahoo, Nokia buys Trolltech -- it's a tech supermarket sweep! This week on Club Builder we also look at IE8's new standards mode and have some fun with Linus Torvalds. Read more »

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Perils of outsourcing

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This edition of the Weekly Roundup looks at what happens when outsourcing companies are robbed, there's more Google news than one can poke a stick at, Samba has a new version and we see what endorsement Mark Taylor has signed on for. Read more »

How soon is Semantic?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At some point in the future you will be able arrive at work George Jetson-style. Your electric flying car will be streaming content to you from the new Semantic Web while your son in the backseat will be enjoying Duke Nukem Forever. Read more »

Linux lovefest wraps up in Melbourne and flies south

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- As the Linux.conf.au 2008 wrapped up in Melbourne last week it was time to reflect on the highlights of the last few days. What was hot and what was not? Read more »

Melbourne clichés: Things of stone and code

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- It's fair to say that the weather in Melbourne has changed as often as speaker's laptops have failed -- and I'd expect nothing less. Read more »

Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »

Stepping into the Leopard cage

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Thankfully the Builder Bureau of Meteorology is predicting rain for the weekend, it will be give me a chance to tangle with that big cat of an OS again. This time I'm coming prepared with chair and whip. Read more »

Get Vista and Samba to work

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- By default Windows Vista won't authenticate Samba share folders. Here is the quick fix you'll need to do to get the two to talk. Read more »

GPLv3 would prevent MS/Novell

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- According to the Free Software Foundation's general counsel, Eben Moglen, GPL version 3 would prevent the type of deal made by Microsoft and Novell from happening. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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