Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst expects the enterprise open source software business to emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market.
In August Red Hat posted second quarter revenue 29 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago, while its subscription revenue also enjoyed double-digit growth to beat analysts’ estimates. Whitehurst [...]

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Facebot demonstrates just how simple it is to weaponize increasingly popular social networking applications for social networks such as Facebook’s, which can be written by anyone for the site. Security experts have warned that OpenSocial and other such social networking platforms are one of the weakest links on social networks. [...]

Level 10 Research & Development just released a new thesis: Source code reveals the author’s personality.
Take for example the following two pieces of code:
for(int x=0;x<30;x++){ order(wendys,jbc); }
and
for ( int x = 0; x < 30 ; x++ )
{
order(wendys, jbc);
}
Read the full article and analysis @ Dragonfire Software

We all have the need to find software that is actually useful occasionally, even more so when we are operating in a linux environment.
Taken from forum-replies.cfm?t=797838, this wiki is all about what people find the most useful software to use with linux.
This list is by no means complete, as only posts with links were added [...]