Richard #Stallman ’s #GNU manifesto turns thirty
▻http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty #free_software
“With software, either the users control the program, or the program controls the users”
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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke
▻http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-brokThe man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive.
Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded.
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Ça y est, l’argent (120 k€) est arrivé ▻https://twitter.com/gnupg/status/563476361676062721
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The complete technical description (with a lot of details, and the principles of an exploit) of the #Ghost vulnerability in the #GNU_libc (routines gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr). Official name is CVE-2015-0235. ▻http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9
High-level explanation of the same ▻https://community.qualys.com/blogs/laws-of-vulnerabilities/2015/01/27/the-ghost-vulnerability
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And a great technical analysis, with a surprise ▻http://lcamtuf.blogspot.fr/2015/01/technical-analysis-of-qualys-ghost.html
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oss-security - Re: Qualys Security Advisory CVE-2015-0235 - GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow
▻http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/18Here is a list of potential targets that we investigated (they all call gethostbyname, one way or another), but to the best of our knowledge, the buffer overflow cannot be triggered in any of them: apache, cups, dovecot, gnupg, isc-dhcp, lighttpd, mariadb/mysql, nfs-utils, nginx, nodejs, openldap, openssh, postfix, proftpd, pure-ftpd, rsyslog, samba, sendmail, sysklogd, syslog-ng, tcp_wrappers, vsftpd, xinetd. That being said, we believe it would be interesting if other people could have a look, just in case we missed something.
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OpenStreetMap Moves Beyond The Streets, Starts Mapping Amazonia | Techdirt
▻https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141229/06090729531/openstreetmap-moves-beyond-streets-starts-mapping-amazonia.shtml
OpenStreetMap Moves Beyond The Streets, Starts Mapping Amazonia
from the boldly-going dept
OpenStreetMap is fast-emerging as one of the key open projects — so much so, that proprietary rivals in the world of digital maps are evidently getting worried. Just as the LAMP stack — GNU/Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python — provided a robust and free foundation for a whole generation of websites a decade and a half ago, so OpenStreetMap is becoming more widely adopted as part of the mobile web, and as geodata grows in importance for a new generation of software applications aimed at users on the move.#osm #cartographie #gis #sig
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Turla, nom de code : cd00R, un malware sous Gnu/Linux.. ▻http://dev-r3d.blogspot.com/2015/01/turla-nom-de-code-cd00r-un-malware-sous.html
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Devuan - the GNU/Linux by Veteran Unix Admins.
▻http://devuan.orgWe plan to innovate many of the tools that were historically used in Debian development, still mainaining stable, testing and unstable package repositories that users and downstream can use.
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» Linuxaria – Everything about GNU/Linux and Open source Uniq, comm and join 3 Linux command for the CLI
▻http://linuxaria.com/howto/uniq-comm-and-join-3-linux-command-for-the-cliUniq, comm and join 3 Linux command for the CLI
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The GNU #Awk User’s Guide: GNU #Regexp Operators
▻https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/GNU-Regexp-Operators.html3.5 gawk-Specific Regexp Operators
GNU software that deals with regular expressions provides a number of additional regexp operators. These operators are described in this section and are specific to gawk; they are not available in other awk implementations. Most of the additional operators deal with word matching. For our purposes, a word is a sequence of one or more letters, digits, or underscores (‘_’):
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Christian Grothoff: The #GNU_Name_System (GNS) and the Future of Social Networking with #GNUnet
GNU Hackers Meeting 2013 — Paris, France
▻https://www.gnu.org/ghm/2013/parisVidéo :
▻http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2013/Christian_Grothoff-The_GNU_Name_System_and_the_Future_of_Social_NetDiapos : ▻http://grothoff.org/christian/ghm2013.pdf
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“A Censorship-Resistant, Privacy-Enhancing and Fully Decentralized Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is vital for access to information on the Internet. This makes it a target for attackers whose aim is to suppress free access to information. This paper introduces the design and implementation of the GNU Name System (GNS), a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant name system. GNS provides a privacy-enhancing alternative to DNS which preserves the desirable property of memorable names. Due to its design, it can also double as a partial replacement of public key infrastructures, such as X.509. The design of GNS incorporates the capability to integrate and coexist with DNS. GNS is based on the principle of a petname system and builds on ideas from the Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure (SDSI), addressing a central issue with the decentralized mapping of secure identifiers to memorable names: namely the impossibility of providing a global, secure and memorable mapping without a trusted authority. GNS uses the transitivity in the SDSI design to replace the trusted root with secure delegation of authority, thus making petnames useful to other users while operating under a very strong adversary model. In addition to describing the GNS design, we also discuss some of the mechanisms that are needed to smoothly integrate GNS with existing processes and procedures in Web browsers. Specifically, we show how GNS is able to transparently support many assumptions that the existing HTTP(S) infrastructure makes about globally unique names.”
[GNUnet is one of the very few serious alternative naming systems on the Internet.]
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Why doesn’t GNU Radio Companion’s wx Constellation Plot doesn’t give me the clean QAM constellation I get from its Qt sibling ?
▻http://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/1978/differences-between-the-gnu-radio-companion-qt-constellation-plot #GNU_Radio -
The purpose of this project is to provide an independent open source implementation of #Google_Drive client for #GNU/Linux
depuis : ▻http://askubuntu.com/questions/161273/is-there-a-google-drive-client-available
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Qu’es-ce que Gnu/Linux ?
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OpenMandriva Lx is an exciting free Desktop #Operating_System based on #GNU/Linux that aims to cater to and interest first time and advanced users alike. It has the breadth and depth of an advanced system but is designed to be simple and straightforward in use.
Lx comes from a 100% community-driven association that believes in the values of free software & collaboration and whose founding values are development, equality, co-operation, openness, freedom, group achievement, independence, and solidarity.
Our team is also a proud user of #Spip technology.
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Hi @openmandriva, pleased to hear that you like SPIP :) Where can i find your SPIP website ?
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Hi @b_b :)
for now we use doc.openmandriva.org and soon www2.openmandriva.org will replace www.openmandriva.org, same for blog2.openmandriva.org which will replace blog.openmandriva.org :) -
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Bonjour, c’est moi qui ait proposé à l’équipe d’utiliser spip, mais on n’est que deux français dans l’équipe infra (sur une dizaine) :) Notre responsable infra, qui est indien, a eu un peu peur de la doc majoritairement en français, mais les capacités de spip l’ont convaincu.
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[Mailman-Announce] ANNOUNCE : The GNU #Mailman 3 suite, beta 1 preview
▻https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-April/000191.htmlPremière beta de Mailman version 3 :
On behalf of the Mailman development team, I am happy
to announce the first beta release of the full Mailman 3 suite.This release includes:
- Postorius 1.0.0b1 (Year of the Parrot), our new Django-based web user
interface for list owners and list members.- HyperKitty 1.0.0b1, the fantastic new Django-based archiver.
- Mailman Core 3.0b4 (Time and Motion), the mailing list engine and
administrative REST API.- The mailman-bundler package 3.0b1, a helpful buildout-based tool for
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Tails, Gnu Linux pour l’anonymat
▻http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/andre-ani/210414/tails-gnu-linux-pour-lanonymat
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GNU GPL, JS and BS
▻http://hroy.eu/posts/gpl-js-bsThis is a long due post, in response to a thread about a new JS outliner released under the GPL. I just did not take the time to write something about it until now… sorry!
It’s quite outstanding, but trying to find some good resource online about this issue is nearly impossible. If you try to read about how the GNU GPL impacts javascript web apps, you will find so much nonsense–that will make you believe the GPL is going to “infect” everything. (In spite of the fact that some of the most important Javascript libraries out there are licensed under the GPL, like Jquery IIRC.)
First, let’s get things straight: the GNU GPL does not infect anything nor has any “viral” effect. You don’t catch the GPL like the flu. In order for GPL obligations to kick in and apply to your javascript web app, you must (...)
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Acoustic modem in the ultrasound band using a PC’s speakers & microphone: ▻http://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/ultrasound-networking - great demo of the GNU Radio Companion.
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FrontAccounting
▻http://frontaccounting.comOur popular web based FrontAccounting is a simple, but powerful, system for the entire ERP chain. The databases can be placed anywhere in the world and can be reached from everywhere.
FrontAccounting is free and released under the GNU General Public License.
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Vidéo : le codec H.264 bientôt libéré par Cisco
▻http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/video-le-codec-h264-bientot-libere-par-cisco-39795219.htmFin de partie, puisque Mozilla et Cisco ont annoncé en même temps (voir chez Cisco et chez Mozilla) que le dernier allait libérer le codec grâce à une implémentation OpenH.264. Ce dernier sera publié en open source et disponible pour Firefox dans un premier temps, par le biais d’un module qui rendra l’utilisation du H.264 gratuite.
Normal, puisque le h265 est déjà sur les fourneaux ...
Et puis la meilleure implémentation de h264 est x264
▻http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
qui est sous licence GNU GPL.
#opensource #codecs-
Et un commentaire bien mieux informé que moi :
Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264
▻http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.htmlThis arrangement has obvious short-term benefits. Open source projects get licensed (if partial and restricted) access to H.264, and users don’t feel like they’re being held hostage in the ongoing battle between the open web and closed codecs. Firefox and other projects can install H.264 support (via Cisco), which is a big deal.
That said, today’s arrangement is at best a stopgap, and it doesn’t change much on the ground. How many people don’t already have H.264 codecs on their machines, legit or otherwise? Enthusiasts and professionals alike have long paid little attention to licensing. Even most businesses today don’t know and don’t care if the codecs they use are properly licensed[1]. The entire codec market has been operating under a kind of ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy for the past 15 years and I doubt the MPEG LA minds. It’s helped H.264 become ubiquitous, and the LA can still enforce the brass tacks of the license when it’s to their competitive advantage (or rather, anti-competitive advantage; they’re a legally protected monopoly after all).
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Mozilla Cisco paie le H.264 en faveur de Mozilla
▻http://linuxfr.org/news/cisco-paie-le-h-264-en-faveur-de-mozillaEst-ce que cette solution sera universelle pour toutes les plateformes ? Est-ce vraiment le début de la fin de la diffusion de vidéos par plugin Flash/Silverlight ?
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Licences libres dans les véhicules #Mercedes
▻http://www4.mercedes-benz.com/manual-cars/ba/foss/content/en/assets/FOSS_licences.pdfComponents of the software used in the vehicle may be free and open source software licensed under the terms of license of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 (GPLv2), GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1) or GNU Library General Public License, Version 2 (LGPLv2). Upon request, we will supply the source code of the components licensed under the GPLv2, LGPL v2.1 and LGPLv2 on a data-medium (please specify the designation of your vehicle).
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▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbear_%28software%29
Dropbear is a software package written by Matt Johnston that provides a Secure Shell-compatible server and client. It is designed as a replacement for standard OpenSSH for environments with low memory and processor resources, such as embedded systems.
Classe S, donc, dont la moins chère est à ...
87.600 € TTC
▻http://asp.zone-secure.net/v2/index.jsp?id=1741/2228/27136&lng=fr&pid=TarifClasseS
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Emmabuntüs est plus qu’une distribution GNU/Linux - Framablog
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Why GNU Autotools is not my favorite build system
▻http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autotoolsThe GNU Autotools are nothing short of an astounding engineering achievement. They can configure, compile and install software ranging from supercomputers all the way down to a SunOS 1.0 from 1983, or thereabouts. It can even do shared libraries portably, which is considered to be among the darkest of magicks on many of these platforms.
This technological triumph does not change the fact that using Autotools is awful. The feeling of using Autotools is not totally unlike trying to open a safe by hitting it repeatedly with your head. Here are just some ways they cause pain to developers.
What to use then?
That depends. Believe it or not, there are build systems that are even worse. Actually most of them are.
My personal favorite is CMake. It fixes almost all of the issues listed here. It has a couple of downsides too. Its language syntax is weird at some places. The way its state and cache values interact on repeated invocations is non-intuitive. Fortunately you usually don’t have to care about that if you just want to build your stuff.
#scc
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Measures Governments Can Use to Promote Free Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
▻http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.en.html#logiciel_libre #stallman #gouvernement #école #souveraineté
