Microsoft walking to open source

Back in July, Microsoft announced it was making .NET available under its Community Promise, which in theory allowed free software developers to use the technology without fear of patent lawsuits. Not surprisingly, many free software geeks were unconvinced by the promise (after all, what’s a promise compared to an actual open licence?), but now Microsoft [...]

Head to head comparison between Subversion, Git and Mercurial

Malaysia and Open Source

More than 70 percent of Malaysian government offices are running open source software, according to figures released by the country’s Open Source Competency Centre. The centre was established as part of the 2004 Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan, to guide and co-ordinate the implementation of OSS in the public sector. The latest OSS adoption [...]

Data recovery from corrupted ext2/ext3 filesystem having bad superblock

NOTE : I do not take any responsibilty of any damage to your disk or data while trying my method or any of my commands stated in this article. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!   Let’s say our corrupted filesystem is at partition /dev/sdb3 of ext3 type. We will mount the partition under /mnt/sdb3, so create [...]

Cloud computing to drive open source

With the cloud computing wave poised to reach the world market in the next 12 to 18 months, open source software and coding techniques are about to hit the big time. That’s because open source software and the methodologies that accompany it have already been proven to be the chosen route for the vast majority [...]

A brief list of commercial grade enterprise open source solution

Another hole in SSL

Discussed in Slashdot quite few days back becomes true. Some researchers had claimed was too theoretical to worry about, has now been demonstrated by exploit. The attack description is available on securegoose.org. The exploit by Anil Kurmus is significant because it successfully targeted the so-called SSL renegotiation bug to steal Twitter login credentials that passed [...]

Project management lessons from the FreeDOS Project

A lot of people seem to think that open source is a magic solution to project management and that open source projects will automatically attract a large and healthy community of contributors and users who will improve the software. This, of course, is not the case. In fact, creating a successful open source project is [...]

What’s waiting in upcoming KDE 4.4

If you’re wondering what the folks over at KDE have been cooking up for the next major release, KDE 4.4, well, quite a bit as it turns out. In a lengthy interview, KDE core developer and spokesperson for the project Sebastian Kugler details the myriad changes that are coming with the 4.4 release — the [...]

100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018

As amazing as today’s supercomputing systems are, they remain primitive and current designs soak up too much power, space and money. And as big as they are today, supercomputers aren’t big enough — a key topic for some of the estimated 11,000 people now gathering in Portland, Ore. for the 22nd annual supercomputing conference, SC09, [...]