Tag: python
-
Open Source Usage Trends and Security Report
SAN FRANCISCO – December 4, 2024 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the release of “Census III of Free and Open Source Software – Application Libraries” (Census III) in collaboration with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. The study identifies the most widely-used free and…
-
4 Keys to Writing Modern Python
If you want to write Python code that takes advantage of the language’s newest and most powerful features, here are four areas to explore. Although Python had its 30-year anniversary in 2021, the explosion of adoption, growth, and forward-thinking development associated with the language is still relatively new. Many features of Python have remained unchanged…
-
30 Years of Open Source Lessons from FreeDOS
Jim Hall is an open source software developer and advocate since 1993. Jim has authored, contributed to, or maintained dozens of open source projects. He is probably best known for his work on the FreeDOS Project, and for usability testing in open source software. He shares his lessons from all these years of working with…
-
Various BSDs vs Linux Compared (on AMD)
This is an article that pits FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks. After last week looking at how FreeBSD 14.1 has improved performance over FreeBSD 14.0, here is an expanded cross-OS comparison now looking at how the new FreeBSD 14.1 stable release compares to the recently released NetBSD 10.0, the…
-
Send Text Msg by ICMP Tunnel x SCAPY
Written by Levko Kravchuk, VanLUG Member DISCLAIMER: Please use this article for study purposes only. I provide this information for Administrators who want to be more effective in their job. Folks, I want to share with you an amazing technology — ICMP Tunnels. It was developed to bypass firewalls, DLP systems, and the main reason…
-
Linux Foundation gets support for alt-Redis
Linux Foundation marshals support for open source alternative to Redis. This follows the vendor’s decision to overhaul licensing of the popular cache database. Cloud giants AWS, Google, and Oracle have come out in support of a Linux Foundation open source fork of Redis, the popular in-memory database frequently used as a cache, following changes to…
