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Software Freedom Day

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 08:13 Prince Annan Koomson
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The Linux Accra User Group, in cooperation with the Free Software and Open
Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), the Advanced Information Technology
Institute (AITI) of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
(KACE), and the entire open source community will be holding a one day event
for the celebration of the Software Freedom Day 2009 (SFD09), that will take
place Saturday September 19th, with the title Open Source: Solutions for
Business, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Ground Floor of AITI-KACE Building,
2nd Avenue, Ringway Estate.
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Microsoft contributes open source code to Linux

Friday, 24 July 2009 18:54 Jojoo Imbeah
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Microsoft has recently contributed source code to the Linux kernel. To find out about what this means to the Linux community, please read this article -- http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html
 

Bitorrent Clients Available In Linux

Friday, 14 November 2008 20:09 administrator
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A BitTorrent client is a program that manages torrent downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.

Vuze (Old Name Azureus)

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file distribution tool.Azureus offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use.

 

FOSS For Students

Friday, 14 November 2008 20:08 administrator
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Whether you're a high school student or just starting out with your college coursework, the free software community has provided a wide range of solutions to make life easier. Browsing the package repository of my Linux distribution led me to applications for everything from gene sequencing to particle physics, but there are a few real gems I think any student could benefit from, including math and chemistry tools such as TiLP, wxMaxima, Kalzium, Gnome Chemistry Utils, and OpenOffice.org Math.
 

Linux Under Attack

Friday, 14 November 2008 20:05 administrator
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The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys.

The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to gain root access. Once root access has been obtained, a rootkit known as "phalanx2" is installed, US-CERT said in a note on its current activity site.


 
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