Mandrake's libDrakx allows you to create GUI or text interfaces with relative ease, especially if you have some Perl under your belt. We'll work through creating a simple window, as well as a more complex list interface.
A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.
Until recently, the price of intranet portal software implementations have made them prohibitive for small- to medium-size companies. Enter open source Slash, a free alternative.
A myriad of open-source products for administering networks is readily available. We look at a few that are particularly useful to Cisco administrators.
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
Linux Labs has released a beta version of a Web browser for wireless-enabled Palm handhelds.
Microsoft's Windows Services for Unix will be most useful if you've already made the decision to switch platforms. This free download will also make life easier for Unix experts who need to use a Windows desktop system.
Look out, Apache--the latest Zeus Web Server is fast. Larry Seltzer looks at benchmark scores for each and tells why you should consider switching.
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Information Services are causing firms to consider moving to other Web servers. Take a look at these transition strategies.
Trying to keep corporate secrets away from prying eyes? We evaluate five encryption software packages
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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