This week marks the real start to the development cycle for Ubuntu’s 9.10 release called Karmic Koala. The Ubuntu Developer’s Summit is being held in Barcelona this year, and is now in full swing. A lot of interesting blueprints have been uploaded to Canonical’s Launchpad service. Let’s see what kind of topics the Ubuntu folks are discussing for this release.
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Karmic Koala Blueprints
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One of President Obama’s strong points during his campaign was the use of technology to reach millions of people and deliver a message. Part of that message was increasing the use of modern technology in government, and advocating modern technology in certain private sector industry that require government oversight. One such sector is energy, with the Obama Administration calling for the energy industry to green up the grid using 21st century technology. Another industry is the medical industry.
Linux and Closed Source: nVidia
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nVidia has always felt a need to keep their drivers closed source, providing binary driver packages for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and BSD. This article focuses on the rationale and possible solutions to this “problem” in the case of Linux.
Malware
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ArsTechnica posted an article about malware. It described how hackers and malware companies have altered their delivery and execution of malware over the course of the last few years. It also went into some of economic aspects of malware distribution and the reason its still a popular choice for hackers.
I’d like to discuss the topmost reason malware still exhibits a problem for both home and corporate users. Microsoft Windows. Secure Computing has some statistics about malware, collected during specified date ranges. The report dated 8/01/07 to 8/31/07 shows some interesting figures. Ninety-seven percent of the new malware found is in the form of Windows Executable code. From my point of view, two things are causing this. And I will explain both. Read more »
