Week in Open Source: June 20, 2008

by Selena Frye in Open source

on June 20, 2008, 4:55 AM PDT

Week in Open Source: June 20, 2008

This week in TechRepublic blogs, Chad Perrin talked about Linux security, and in particular, the dangers of evaluating security by simply counting vulnerabilities; Rick Vanover introduced open source ClarkConnect as a handy networking solution for remote offices.

Here’s my weekly wrap-up of some of the other open source-related items that you might have missed. Chad Perrin has sparked some lively discussions in the Security blog, talking about Linux security, and Rick Vanover had a positive review for the open source networking solution, ClarkConnect, over in the Network Administrator blog.

TechRepublic blogs:

Vulnerability counting revisited: a hypothetical example (Chad Perrin)
Firefox 3.0 memory improvements — Fact or Fiction? (John Sheesley)
Is Linux the most secure OS? (Chad Perrin)
IBM may make DB2 open source, and Microsoft wants an open source census (Andy Moon)
ClarkConnect: Open source gateway options for the remote office (Rick Vanover)

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