Open Source

Review: Sony’s Google TV player may harm your marriage

After six long, disappointing days with an Android-powered Google TV player (that I was really excited for), I brought it back to the store.

Unix: Looking for evil in your firewall logs

Firewall logs. There's never enough time to review them, but you can't ignore them. Here's one way to look for malicious connections without spending a lot of time at it.

OpenStack Celebrates 3 Years of Building Open Source Cloud Platform

LightZone: Serious FOSS competition for Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom has serious competition in the form of LightZone, a free open source application

Want to shoot a drone? Just pay $25

A small town in Colorado is considering issuing $25 licenses for its residents to hunt drones, and it's gaining support.

Open-Xchange to double development team, speed up feature rollout

The new developers will help speed up the development of new features

Hacking to rig election earns college student one-year prison sentence

After getting caught red-handed with keyloggers to win a student election, a college student tries to cover it up, and receives jail time as a result.

Firefox OS for phones is shipping, and it is impressive

Time to eat crow about the Firefox OS, which I mocked when it was first announced.

Linux dev to Torvalds: Enough with the potty mouth already

Sarah Sharp calls out Linux creator over bad language  via mailing list.

Start-up morphs open-source security system for research networks into commercial platform

Broala's Bro has been used for 15 years on the high-speed Energy Sciences Network for intrusion detection