Recently, the Linux version of UnrealIRCd was discovered to have had a Trojan worm its way into the source code. Even more embarrassing for the developers of Unreal is that the Trojan’s been holding open the backdoor in the source code since November of 2009– not very recently. …. Should the user’s browser be compromised by a vulnerability in Flash or Java, the sandbox would prevent it from leaking any data or executing binaries, preventing system compromise. …
In order to complete this tutorial, I assume you have installed a base system of Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). How this can be done, can be read in different tutorials. This tutorial only focusses on getting nginx+php running without much …
When building Elemental (WordPress Theme) I decided to develop my own, very simple, caching plugin to help speed up the theme. There were a few reasons …
The 2010 Eclipse community survey [PDF] has just been released, and again Linux and Ubuntu is showing strong growth on the developer workstations. Some of you may remember my post on this subject last year. …
This was my first trip to Southeast Linux Fest, and I continue to be really impressed by most of the regional Linux Fests that I have attended. SELF was excellent, as was Texas Linux Fest earlier this year and Ohio Linux Fest a couple …
As Eclipse committers, we spend lots of time emphasizing that Eclipse is not just an Integrated Development Environment. Eclipse is a framework, a tooling.
The open source project TurnKey Linux has launched a private beta of the TurnKey Hub, a service that makes it easy to launch and manage the project’s Ubuntu-based …
I decided to ditch windows while my phone was out for repair. Now I have it back and it is rootless, and I can’t figure out if it’s possible to flash.
Conclusion: Those who fear Linux because they fear change may appreciate this distribution more than they would Gentoo, yes? Besides, my first worry about a distro is support (repositories? Is it pure Ubuntu with a new skin? …
While many developers have started testing code using the Graph API, some are reporting significant slowness with the new APIs when used with Facebook’s latest PHP SDK. In particular, one of the largest developers on the Platform showed …
