Unix, Free and Open Source Software, and Linux Security: Computer Security Lectures 2014/15 S1
This video is part of the computer/information/cyber security and ethical hacking lecture series; by Z. Cliffe Schreuders at Leeds Beckett University. Labora...
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GeoServer Beginner #39;s Guide PDF
Download: http://bit.do/VAMv Description Share and edit geospatial data with this open source software server Overview Learn free and open source geospatial mapping without prior GIS experience...
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Red Hat Inc. (RHT) was initiated with a "buy" rating and $81 price target at Cantor Fitzgerald on Tuesday.
The firm said it initiated coverage on the open source software solutions provider as it believes the company is a market leader and will continue to gain market share.
Shares of Red Hat are up by 0.29% to $69.09 in pre-market trading this morning.
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Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 21:
Free software enthusiasts have launched Code Free for India (CoFFI), their latest initiative to leverage the power of free and open source software in nation-building.
This is in the best spirits of the Make in India campaign, according to the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software based here.
CONFERENCE ENDS
CoFFI is the brainchild of this Centre, which hosted the fifth International Free Software Conference-Swatantra 2014 that just concluded here.
P Balasubramaniam, Open Technoogy Group, National Informatics Centre, launched the CoFFI initiative on the final day of the conference.
The initiative aims to encourage development of local software solutions for local problems, a spokesman for the International Centre said here.
This applies particularly in the case of mobile computing, open hardware, geospatial computing, local language computing, Internet-of-things and e-commerce.
CoFFI will invite programmers from the free software community around the country to develop tools and applications for desktop, Internet, mobile, cloud, and Internet-of-things for use by civil society and citizens as well as government and institutions.
GAME CHANGER
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Enterprise search software provider LucidWorks has introduced a package based on its open-source Apache Solr search engine that will allow administrators and business analysts to extract more information from IT system logs.
SiLK "is a solution that relies on open core components that organizations can use to manage log data at scale," said Will Hayes, LucidWorks chief product officer.
The SiLK package combines Apache Lucene/Solr with a number of open-source analysis tools, namely Apache Flume, LogStash and Kibana.
Kibana offers the reporting visualization capabilities and LogStash is used to collect, store and parse logs. Flume provides a way to connect with Hadoop repositories. Apache Solr, which LucidWorks oversees, provides the searching and indexing capabilities. Solar used to be called Lucene/Solr, after two technologies that were combined, before the name was shortened to Lucene. LucidWorks employs about 25 percent of the core developers who manage and update Lucene and Solr.
The software package could help in security analysis, business intelligence, fraud detection and other use cases, according to the company. It can offer time-series analysis, data discovery and correlation.
The open source software stack that powers SiLK is not new -- many organizations have already combined LogStash and Kibana to analyze log data. Most implementations have used another open source search engine, Elasticsearch, however.
"A lot of people out in the community were talking about using LogStash with Solr," Hayes said. "A number of organizations are running into issues with using Elasticsearch at scale."
LucidWorks says that using Lucene instead of Elasticsearch will allow an organization to aggregate and search across more data, Hayes said. SiLK is aimed at organizations that have anywhere from hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes of data to ingest daily.
According to Hayes, SiLK can also provide some scalability advantages over the commercial market leader of log-data analysis, Splunk. Splunk charges, at least in part, based on how much data is being analyzed, which can add up when dealing with extremely large amounts of data.
SiLK also works well with Hadoop deployments, Hayes said. It has been certified to work with the Cloudera Enterprise 5 commercial Hadoop package and Solr is frequently incorporated into other Hadoop distributions, such as those offered by MapR and Hortonworks.
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Open Source Software Licensing for EPL202
This video produced from Group1 (Kyriakos Kyriakou, Giorgos Moleskis, Christos Demetriou) as a project for EPL202. University of Cyprus 2014-2015.
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Building a Medical Endo-Microscope using open source software
Presenter(s): Janaka Subhawickrama URL: http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2009/programme/schedule/view_talk/217%3Fday=friday.html Introduction and Product:Optisca...
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So, what is the big deal with open source software? Besides the fact that its free, and it gives you all of the freedoms without all of the licensing restrictions. The business agility open source offers is quickly eroding the main stream. In a 2013 survey with over 800 participants from both vendor and non-vendor communities it was reported that open source software has matured to such an extent that it now influences everything from innovation to collaboration among competitors to hiring practices.
According to Forrester analyst, Jeffrey Hammond, 76% of developers have used some form of open-source technology. Today the open source way is more than an operating system platform. Open source is describing the free exchange of ideas in any atmosphere. It brings people together to share creative ideas and collaborate, experiment with your practical ideas, and create a global community for everyone to work together. Mozilla Firefox, Linux, and Googles Android are all examples of open source software. Anyone online is readily able to download and use the open source code to do pretty much whatever they want with it whether its changing it, distributing it, etc. So why are not only companies but also private users trending toward open source?
Quality
In the aforementioned survey participants were also asked why they made the switch to open source. The most common response, above price and freedom, was quality. Quality, being the biggest factor in open source adoption, is clearly a good enough reason to shift over. Users of open source argue that when a bug in the system or a problem arises, users are able to confront the program and combat the issue as a community. Putting all of the brain power together to solve the issue is a lot more efficient than one lone programmer trying to come up with a solution on his own.
Stratoscale is one of the growing names trending amongst open source communities. They are integratable with open source products within their own service and are contributors to the leading open source coding initiatives such as Openstack and KVM. Their hyper convergence infrastructure is built upon a private initiative to incorporate both major open source and proprietary software applications to run your own application, with no restrictions and with a high level of efficiency.
FREE!
People love things that are free. In this sense of the word, open source is not only free as in it costs nothing to the user, but its also free as in it gives you freedom. Freedom to do what you want with the platform and freedom to say what you want without worrying about your intellectual property or anything else you say being recorded or tracked. The cost advantage however is very significant. How else could a company like Netflix for example manage to charge just 8$ per month for their service? The answer is they built everything using open source software.
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Anderson At TIES Education Technology Conference 2014
Anderson gives a brief talk on the history of Linux and Free/Open Source Software.
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Unlocking the ivory tower: Free and open source software in collaborative humanities research
Presenter(s): Claudine Chionh URL: http://2010.linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/50163 Freedom to learn; freedom to share; freedom to connect. Human...
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