2013: Remembering the First ‘All Things Open’

A look at the very first All Things Open, which brought a world class open-source event to downtown Raliegh, which was the back yard for Red Hat, at the time the most successful independent open-source company in the world.

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Celebrating “All Things Open’s” First Ten Years in Ten Days

Has it really been 11 years since All Things Open first opened its doors, which made Raleigh, North Carolina the home for what’s become one of the most vital open-source events on the planet? Indeed it has, and during the next ten days we’re going to take a look at each and every year’s All Things Open.

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Ferrocene released as open source

Ferrous Systems has announced
that its Ferrocene Rust compiler will be released under the Apache-2.0 and
MIT licenses.

Ferrocene is the main Rust compiler – rustc – but quality managed
and qualified for use in automotive and industrial environments
(currently by ISO 26262 and IEC 61508) by Ferrous Systems. It
operates as a downstream to the Rust project, further increasing
its testing and quality on specific platforms.

The license is free, but this is not being run as an open-source project;
specifically, contributions from the “general public” are not accepted.

Source: LWN.net – Ferrocene released as open source

How to Install Zeek Network Security Monitoring Tool on Debian 12

Zeek (formerly Bro) is a free and open-source platform for network security monitoring. It is a powerful passive network traffic analyzer to investigate suspicious or malicious activity. In this guide, I will show you how to install Zeek network Security Monitoring on the Debian 12 server step-by-step.

Source: LXer – How to Install Zeek Network Security Monitoring Tool on Debian 12

Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz on being 'extremely online', sponcons gone wrong and her dream dinner party

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In […]

Source: LXer – Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz on being ‘extremely online’, sponcons gone wrong and her dream dinner party

[$] GCC features to help harden the kernel

Hardening the Linux kernel is an endless task, with work required on
multiple fronts. Sometimes, that work is not done in the kernel itself;
other tools, including compilers, can have a significant role to play.
At the 2023 GNU Tools
Cauldron
, Qing Zhao covered some of the work that has been done in the
GCC compiler to help with the hardening of the kernel — along with work
that still needs to be done.

Source: LWN.net – [$] GCC features to help harden the kernel