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Thursday, November 14th, 2013
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| 2:07a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 14, 2013
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 14, 2013 is available. | | 4:08p |
| | 7:16p |
How to Run Your Small Business With Free Open Source Software (CIO) CIO has a summary of open source options for business software. It is a bit thin (and annoyingly broken up over multiple pages—the printable version is better), but it does cover many of the categories of business software that small businesses are likely to be interested in. Each category offers a few different options for open source solutions. " Even if you want to stick with a closed source operating system (or, the case of OS X, partially closed source), your business can still take advantage of a vast amount of open source software. The most attractive benefit of doing so: It's generally available to download and run for nothing. While support usually isn't available for such free software, it's frequently offered at an additional cost by the author or a third party. It may be included in a low-cost commercially licensed version as well." | | 7:34p |
Your visual how-to guide for SELinux policy enforcement (opensource.com) Over at opensource.com, SELinux hacker Dan Walsh describes SELinux policy enforcement using dogs and cats. It has lots of cute cartoons (by Máirín Duffy) of the interaction between various types of dogs, a cat, food meant for each, and Tux as an enforcer of the food policies. It looks at type enforcement (TE), multi-category security (MCS), and multi-level security (MLS) using dog/cat analogies as well as relating them to the "real world". " SElinux is a labeling system. Every process has a label. Every file/directory object in the operating system has a label. Even network ports, devices, and potentially hostnames have labels assigned to them. We write rules to control the access of a process label to an a object label like a file. We call this policy. The kernel enforces the rules." | | 7:58p |
Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps (Google Open Source Blog) The Google Open Source Blog has announced the release of Dart SDK 1.0. Dart is a language targeted at building web applications that was announced in October 2011. The 1.0 SDK release indicates that Dart is production-ready for web developers. " The Dart SDK 1.0 includes everything you need to write structured web applications: a simple yet powerful programming language, robust tools, and comprehensive core libraries. Together, these pieces can help make your development workflow simpler, faster, and more scalable as your projects grow from a few scripts to full-fledged web applications." |
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