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10 Windows applications that should be ported to Linux
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| I canât tell you how many emails, phone
| calls, IMs, and Facebook messages Iâve gotten
| that asked when or if an application would be
| ported from Windows to Linux. Or how many
| times Iâve heard someone say, âI would use
| Linux, if X were ported to it!â So I decided
| to put these wishes to good use and list the
| top applications that should be ported to
| Linux. Some could be possible. Some are not
| (for whatever reason), which is a shame
| because the ânot possibleâ tends to keep
| people from adopting Linux.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1412
How Nexuiz did not become proprietary or: "Silly names in Games"
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| Some company will use LordHavoc's DarkPlaces
| engine (DPE) to publish a game on some game
| console(s). The development team includes "a
| number of Nexuiz developers, and previous
| Quake1 community developers". Nexuiz is a (or
| rather "the") FOSS FPS that uses DPE.
|
| As far as I can tell, no assets of Nexuiz
| will be used. On the other hand, the
| soundtrack playing on the console-DPE-game
| homepage sounds like a remix of a Nexuiz
| track. I will just assume that the composer
| agreed to this and that the same might happen
| to other high-quality Nexuiz content and that
| it will all be legal. Lee Vermeulen (Nexuiz'
| lead developer) is no license-n00b after all.
| Also, the console game will be using Nexuiz'
| gameplay, which I assume means "game modes",
| "movement/physics" and "weapon
| functions/balancing".
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http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-nexuiz-did-not-become-proprietary.html
Recent:
State Of Application Security: Nearly 60 Percent Of Apps Fail First Security Test
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| Around 58 percent of the applications
| tested by application security testing
| service provider Veracode in the past
| year-and-a-half failed to achieve a
| successful rating in their first round of
| testing. "The degree of failure to meet
| acceptable standards on first submission
| is astounding -- and this is coming from
| folks who care enough to submit their
| software to our [application security
| testing] services," says Roger Oberg,
| senior vice president of marketing for
| Veracode. "The implication here is that
| more than half of all applications are
| susceptible to the kinds of
| vulnerabilities we saw at Heartland,
| Google, DoD, and others -- these were all
| application-layer attacks."
|
| [...]
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| Despite the relatively gloomy picture of
| developers still missing the mark
| initially on security, there were some
| bright spots in the report: Open-source
| software isn't as risky as you'd think,
| and financial services organizations and
| government agencies tend to have more
| secure applications from the get-go; more
| than half of their apps passed as
| acceptable in the first submission to
| testing, according to Veracode's report.
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http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223100875
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