An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie -- Federico Biancuzzi
interviews Marc Espie about OpenBSD's secure coding, the ports infrastructure, licensing, and future plans for the project. BSD users will
find a wealth of valuable info in Dru Lavigne's upcoming BSD Hacks.
Growing with Gentoo -- Daniel Robbins, Gentoo's chief
architect, recently spoke to students and professors at Stanford University's Computer Systems Lab. Learn how Gentoo evolved, what problems
and opportunities it's encountering, and Daniel's opinions on its future.
To see a complete list of all our Linux books, visit linux.oreilly.com.
Enter to Win a Free Conference Pass -- Join our mailing list to receive the latest information on all of the O'Reilly Conferences. You'll be automatically entered to win one free conference pass (good for one year). Make your plans now for this year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 23-26 in Portland, Oregon.
Subversion 1.0 Released -- Subversion 1.0 is the industry's newest open source versioning system. Improvements over its predecessor, CVS, are specifically designed to facilitate distributed software development. The changes include: versioning of directories,
renames, and file meta data; truly atomic commits; enhanced network
capabilities using standard protocols supported by the Apache HTTP
Server; more efficient handling of binary files; and efficient branching and tagging.
Imagine My Surprise: Open Books -- Over the years, O'Reilly has published a number of "Open Books"--books with various forms of open copyright. We recently adopted the Creative Commons Founders' Copyright, which we'll apply to hundreds of other titles over time. In this "Letters" column, an O'Reilly reader describes how his copy of Free as in Freedom got lost in a move, but his research work was saved when he discovered O'Reilly's Open Books Project.
MoveOn's "Geek Organizer" Online Job Fair -- Do you use technology to help people connect and mobilize? Are you someone who has the leadership and communication skills of a political organizer, as well as the technical skills of a computer nerd? If you are this person, take the Geek Organizer test. If you need this person, post the job opportunity online. Join in MoveOn.org's two-week, virtual job fair.
OSCON 2004 -- Registration will open in April for the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention. This year's event will feature talks from Esther, George, and Freeman Dyson, Robert Lefkowitz, and Milton Ngan, among many others. The conference will be held July 26-30, 2004 in Portland, Oregon. To be notified when registration opens and to receive updates on the OSCON program, sign up for the Open Source Conferences Newsletter.
Amazon and Open Source -- Amazon realized early on that amazon.com was more than just a book site, more in fact than just an e-commerce site. It was becoming an e-commerce platform. Open source has been a key part of the Amazon story, and although Amazon has closed code, it has created its own "architecture of participation" that may be even richer than that of many open source software development communities. Tim shares his thoughts in the latest Ask Tim.
OSCON Ideas -- The theme of this year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention is "Opening the Future: Discover, Develop, Deliver." Join us at OSCON this July in Portland to learn from and mingle with open source leaders and practitioners who've gathered to integrate projects, launch revolutionary new ideas, and push the boundaries of their respective technologies. If you have thoughts about topics you'd like to see covered at OSCON, send us an email: oscon-idea@oreilly.com.
Tim O'Reilly at FOSDEM 2004 -- In this FOSDEM interview, Tim O'Reilly talks about O'Reilly's book publishing program, past and present, and his goal to create the maximum value for users, developers, and everyone in the software ecosystem. Today, Tim's sights are set on the next-generation applications that run on top of Linux and the Internet and are changing the rules of the computing game. He'll discuss how we might reinvent open source in the age of the Internet at this year's FOSDEM.
Things Squid Administrators Should Know -- New users often struggle with the same frustrating set of idiosyncrasies involved in learning Squid, the popular web caching software. Here are six things you should know about using Squid from the get-go, from Duane Wessels, creator of Squid and author of Squid: The Definitive Guide.
O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In -- Attendees at the
Digital Democracy Teach-In spent the day learning how to take back control
of a different sort of operating system. Daniel Steinberg reports on
keynotes from Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean; Wes
Boyd, co-founder of MoveOn.org; Scott Heiferman, co-founder and CEO
of Meetup.com; and many others. The power of the Internet is at the forefront of discussions all this
week at the Emerging Technology Conference.
