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LXer Feature: 16-Nov-2014
In the Roundup this week we have Tor not so anonymous anymore, the kernel's shellshock vulnerability, Larry Cafiero talks about the GNOME Groupon fiasco, Firefox at 10, .NET open sourced and much more. Enjoy!
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Biggest ever Tor raid hits 410 underground sites; 17 arrested: PCWorld reports that US and European enforcement agencies have arrested dark web cybercriminals who used Tor. It's still hard to discover Tor users' identities, but will government actions endanger legitimate Tor users?
Shellshocked Linux kernel the kernel column: Jon Masters informs us of the kernel’s role in the latest Shellshock security vulnerability, and summarises the work in the kernel community towards a final 3.17 release
Systemd fallout: Joey Hess quits Debian project: The ruckus over the adoption of systemd as the default init system for Debian appears to have claimed a victim, with veteran developer Joey Hess announcing that he is leaving the project.
Firefox @10: How Mozilla Succeeded and Why it has now Failed: 10 years ago there was no real browser choice, IE dominated (except on Linux). Firefox changed that for the better. In 2008, four years after the Firefox 1.0 release, I was still very enthusiastic about the positive change that Firefox brought the web
Raspberry Pi Model A+ is out now. It's 20% cheaper, 24% shorter and consumes 45% less power: You can buy a Raspberry Pi Model A+ right now. It costs around $20/£15, it’s just 56mm long, 12mm thick and consumes just 200mA
Groupon Is Stealing the GNOME Trademark: Getting a trademark for something will not shield you from abusive behaviour from big companies, and the GNOME Foundation is learning this the hard way. The company behind Groupon is trying to steal the GNOME trademark for a tablet they are developing.
Enhancing Education With FOSS: Our custom distro, based on Linux Mint 17 KDE LTS, is a playground completely filled with learning opportunities. Many of the applications were taken from standard Linux educational apps available from the regular repositories. The 3.3 gig ISO file produces a live cd/install disk which not only provides hours of entertainment, it includes educational software that meets most any academic need the child will encounter. Many of our kids, however, are at the age where they like to play simple games. We’ve provided an abundant environment for that.
Open source accelerating the pace of software: When we talk about the innovation that communities bring to open source software, we often focus on how open source enables contributions and collaboration within communities. More contributors, collaborating with less friction. However, as new computing architectures and approaches rapidly evolve for cloud computing, for big data, for the Internet of Things (IoT), it's also becoming evident that the open source development model is extremely powerful because of the manner in which it allows innovations from multiple sources to be recombined and remixed in powerful ways. Consider the following examples.
Groupon & GNOME: Doing the Right Thing: So Tuesday morning, the Internet was abuzz. Groupon has a tablet based point of sale “operating system for merchants to run their entire operation” called Gnome, which is accompanied by 28 — count ‘em 28 — trademark applications. With trademark not being the same as copyright, trademarks are constantly defended by owners because, well, that’s they way the system works (or doesn’t, depending on your perspective), and GNOME was in a position of having to spend a significant amount in defending its trademark, used for the last 17 years and officially trademarked in 2006.
.Net is now open so what will Miguel de Icaza do?: With Microsoft opening up .NET in order to try and infiltrate the Linux and Mac markets, one question arise: what will Mono creator Miguel de Icaza do now that his duplicates of Microsoft technology are no longer needed?
C# and .NET's Sudden Ubiquity: Microsoft ports .NET to Linux and Macintosh and open-sources the entire stack.
Walmart's $99 Nextbook will make people hate Windows 8.1 even more: Walmart, that well-known purveyor of the finest America has to offer, will flog a $99 Windows 8 tablet for this year's Black Friday. As you'd expect at that price, the E Fun Nextbook is an utter dog: it has a 1.8GHz Intel Atom processor with 1GB of RAM – the bare minimum for Windows 8.1 to function.
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