107 posts tagged “free libre open”

Oracle Enterprise Linux (and Oracle VM) is freely RE-distributable !
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Unbreakable+Linux

Yes, it's free download but also free to re-distribute including copyrights and trademarks, see the EULA for more details.

And theres now a public yum server for OEL that offers a free and convenient way to install packages from the Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM installation media via a yum client.

moblin is the new mobile gnu/linux distro

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) (or PCI DSS) is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security, was developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc. Inc. International, to help facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures on a global basis.

The PCI DSS is a multifaceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. This comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data.

For example Section 6.5.A of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures says :

Obtain and review software development processes for any web-based applications. Verify that processes require training in secure coding techniques for developers, and are based on guidance such as the OWASP guide (http://www.owasp.org).

PCI DSS RoadMap

• http://www.pciassessment.org/roadmap-to-compliance.php

PCI DSS Free Libre Open Source ecommerce related links

• http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
• http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Management
  
• http://drupal.org/project/securepages
• http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/2731/credit_card_settings
• http://www.ubercart.org/forum/bug_reports/4962/pci_dss_session_handling_encryption
• http://www.oscommerce.com/
• http://demo.oscommerce.com/
  

PCI DSS DIY Audit

• pci-dss-auditing-linux-apache-php-mysql-with-nessus-4
  

Commercial Toolkit

• PCI-DSS-Compliance-Made-Easy-with-GoToBillings-PCI-Toolkit

UK Electronic Payment Directory

• http://www.electronic-payments.co.uk/
  

If your favorite free libre open source project is only available as a tgz or zip (ie umlet) you can now easily turn it into a fully viewable & searchable code repository by using github or google code svn !
You can then use ohloh.net to analyse the code for you !

Simply

1. sign up for a github or google code svn account
2. CREATE a new repo (ie http://github.com/osde8info/UMLet)
   
3. download tgz or zip
4. untgz or unzip
5. ADD files to repo
6. COMMIT files to repo
7. (if using github you may also need to 'remote add' and 'push')
   
8. add enlistment to ohloh (ie git://github.com/osde8info/UMLet.git)

Edubuntu 9.04 brings new application bundles that group educational software by grade level.

You can install from the Education category in the "Add/Remove..." entry in the Applications menu or installing the following packages using your favorite package manager:

• ubuntu-edu-preschool - Preschool ( < 5 years old) educational application bundle
• ubuntu-edu-primary - Primary ( ages 6-12) educational application bundle
• ubuntu-edu-secondary - Secondary ( ages 13-18) educational application bundle
• ubuntu-edu-tertiary - Tertiary ( university level ) educational application bundle

Ubuntu 9.04 http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Apple Mac OS X operating system.

To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that  greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.
We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute, without splitting them into “stable” Vs. “unstable” branches, targetting mainly the current Mac OS X release (10.5, A.K.A Leopard) and the immediately previous one (10.4, A.K.A. Tiger).
There are currently 5602 ports in our tree, distributed among 90 different categories.

See also:

• http://www.macports.org/install.php
• http://guide.macports.org/
  
• http://trac.macports.org/report/1

WebTide Java Jetty HTTP Server is an open-source, standards-based, full-featured web server implemented entirely in Java. It is released under the Apache 2.0 licence and is therefore free for commercial use and distribution. First created in 1995, Jetty has benefitted from input from a vast user community and consistent and focused development by a stable core of lead developers. There are many more examples of Jetty in action on the Jetty Powered Page that has selections from among the tens of thousands of production Jetty instances.

• http://www.webtide.com/
• http://blogs.webtide.com/
  
• http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty/
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Jetty+Powered

• http://www.papercut.com/
• http://brainking.com/

• http://incubator.apache.org/click/

OSGeo's mission is to:

• Promote the use of open geospatial formats
• Provide best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF, ISO19115 through ISO19139).
• Promote public access to state-collected geodata
• Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.
• Run a repository of open geodata

Open Source Geo Projects:

• http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/
• http://www.qgis.org/
• http://www.ossim.org/OSSIM/OSSIMHome.html
• http://openlayers.org/
• http://www.mapserver.org/
• http://mapguide.osgeo.org/
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/3712
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/gvSIG-Mobile
  

See Also:

• http://www.opengeospatial.org/
  

Sun xVM VirtualBox downloads are now available for most OS's including GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris and Windoz !

• http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html

For organizations that want to deploy across the business, Sun offers Sun xVM VirtualBox Enterprise Subscriptions
which includes a Sun Software License Agreement and Premium Service Plan.

Sun xVM OpenVirtualBox
VirtualBox source code is freely available and licensed under GPL2 as the Open Source Edition.