We’re giving away $50 for the best pumpkin related to open source, Linux, Red Hat, Creative Commons, or any of the other things we post about here. Carve it, paint it, however you want to decorate it, as long as it’s creative. If you happen to have a pumpkin that naturally grew in the likeness of Linus Torvalds, we’ll even take it as is. » Read more
Uli Drepper is a Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). Watch the first, second, and third videos in this series.
The fourth installment of our sessions with developer Ulrich Drepper has us discussing how to play nicely with SELinux. Uli covers everything from system policies being implemented now to tools (such as SE Troubleshooter) that help your programs get along with those policies. He also talks about what policies may look like in the future, starting with Fedora 8.
This segment goes hand-in-hand with our previous talk with Uli at the 2007 Red Hat Summit. For more information on Uli and his works, visit his web site.
As always, we have a tasty, tasty podcast for you in mp3 and ogg flavors. And don’t forget to join us next time when Uli talks about things that system administrators can do to make their systems run more smoothly.
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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Will democratizing sustainable housing be enough to change Canada? It’s too early to tell, but there’s a start. Open source can make sustainable designs available. Nobody owns it, everybody can use it, and anybody can improve it. The Now House is one sustainable housing design project created by one small team. What would happen if one hundred teams created projects like this? » Read more
On September 15, more than 330 teams around the world held Software Freedom Day events as part of a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
This short video includes highlights from the SFD event held in Chapel Hill, NC, including Max Spevack’s Fedora talk and Mark Finkle from Mozilla.
Watch the video, then visit softwarefreedomday.org to learn more. Keep an eye on their web site and join their mailing lists to get involved with a 2008 Software Freedom Day event.
Uli Drepper is a Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). Watch the first and second videos in this series.
This third installment in our five-part series of videos featuring Ulrich Drepper is a discussion of memory allocation errors. Specifically Uli covers exploits related to linked lists and the heuristics set to catch these errors. He also discusses what that means for the end user.
Next time Uli will talk about how to make SELinux easeir for you in your day-to-day tasks so that you can enjoy the benefits of a secure environment.
As a supplement to the video, we’re providing an unedited podcast.
Thanks for your submissions to the first round of the Red Hat Certified Challenge! The topic was history of open source. The judges have answered the questions and ranked their difficulty to determine a winner.
The next topic is open source and the law. Get your questions in! Answers will be posted two weeks from today.
As for this round’s questions, read the experts’ answers and see how you would have done. » Read more
