linux - open source
Moonlight 2.0 ready for beta: Casting Silverlight on Linux
News The beta is available both as source code and as a plug in for the Mozilla browser. The developer of the Moonlight software that enables Silverlight applications to run on Linux computers said on Monday... [18 Aug 2009]
Linux flaw bypasses security
News The source code for the exploit was made available last week by researcher Brad Spengler on the Dailydave mailing list. In the notes for his source code, Spengler said the exploit is strengthened if... [21 Jul 2009]
Cleartext Passwords in Linux Memory
White Paper The paper investigated the source of these passwords and presents a proof-of-concept method for recovering passwords from memory. Upon examination, the memory of a popular Linux distribution contained... [18 Feb 2009]
Avinux: Towards Automatic Verification of Linux Device Drivers
White Paper Avinux supports a verification process for Linux that includes specification annotation in SLICx (an extension of the SLIC language), automatic data environment creation, source code transformation and... [04 Feb 2009]
ACM - the copyright is provided at the end of the first page, ACM stands for Association for Computing Machinery
White Paper The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect overhead due to perturbation of caches. Experiment results are presented for the Linux kernel... [02 Feb 2009]
Palm to launch Nova-based touchscreen smartphone?
News The report, which cites "a trusted source", says the device will have a full Qwerty keyboard that will slide under the touchscreen. Nova is based on Linux, and is expected to bring the Palm-branded... [05 Jan 2009]
Photos: Top 10 Xmas presents for the tech team
Photo The first and second series of The IT Crowd, the hit comedy series about the joys of working in the tech department, is another good option for the square-eyed sysadmin.silicon.com caught up with the show's writer and director, Graham... [01 Dec 2008]
Large-Scale Analysis of Format String Vulnerabilities in Debian Linux
White Paper They successfully analyze 66% of C/C++ source packages in the Debian 3.1 Linux distribution. In collaboration with others, the paper designed and implemented a system to eliminate format string... [01 Oct 2008]
A Taxonomy of the Linux Network Stack
White Paper The only authoritative source on this kind of information is, well, the kernel source:-)[FIXME: Online Reference for linuxdoc-generated xref of network stack? This paper tries to give readers not... [01 Oct 2008]
Using Code Coverage Tools in the Linux Kernel
White Paper The often unspoken assumption with testing is that the test programs cover a majority of the source code written. In this paper, people learn how to instrument the Linux kernel to generate code coverage... [01 Oct 2008]
Dell's OEM Industry Solutions Group and Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers Form the Foundation for the Google Search Appliance
White Paper Dell's OEM Industry Solutions Group provides extensive customization to Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers running the Linux operating system to form the foundation for the Google Search Appliance; Dell OEM Industry Solutions... [03 Jul 2008]
Repetitive Task Management on Multiple Linux Images
White Paper In the cases of 'C' code, both the source code and compile commands are provided. Often, it is desirable to perform tasks remotely on a Linux system(s) without actually doing a manual log in. This may be... [30 Apr 2008]
Wasabi Certified BSD
White Paper Every Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package includes support for the specific features of the hardware platform, documentation, cross toolchain hosted on Windows, Linux, or BSD, complete source... [12 Mar 2008]
Unix in a Nutshell: The GNU Make Utility
White Paper It automates the building of software and documentation based on a specification of dependencies among files; e.g.object files that depend upon program source files, or PDF files that depend upon documentation program... [24 Oct 2007]
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell: Configuring and Building
White Paper The kernel configuration is kept in a file called .config in the top directory of the kernel source tree. If one has just expanded the kernel source code, there will be no .config file, so it needs to be... [24 Oct 2007]
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