Programming News and Articles

News

• US gov embraces open data
• Apache Cdorked.A exploit discovered
• News Bites

New Intel CEO

• FSF scolds W3C
• Torvalds releases Kernel 3.9
• Xen new LF collaboration project

Operating Systems

• Debian 7.0“wheezy” debuts
• Windows XP most likely to be victim of attack.

Great tools and resources are available to help you write secure Ruby on Rails code. Kurt examines some tools and offers some tips.

• RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode
• HP Launches Moonshot Server
• Offensive Security Releases Kali Linux
• TeamViewer Version 8 for Linux Now Available

News

• Gnome 3.8 released
• Aereo wins battle to stream broadcast TV

openSUSE 12.3 Out

• New browser engine
• Pirates on the run
• Ubuntu reduces non‑LTS support

Projects

• OpenDaylight open source framework
• ASF promotes CloudStack

Klaus Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and co-founder of LinuxTag expo. He works as a teacher, programmer, and consultant. If you have a configuration problem, or if you just want to learn more about how Linux works, send your questions to: klaus@linux-magazine.com

The Vagrant package provides easy management of virtual machines with VirtualBox as the hypervisor on the command line. Provisioning tools like Puppet let customers try out products in pre-installed environments.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.