Development
How to promote your open source project
Do you run an open source project and feel that it can use more users? Even if you are not a marketing guru, these promotion steps will boost your project!
Summary
Getting more out of your project (including more users!) Do you have an open source project, yet you feel that it could more users? You are not alone! Many other open source projects have the same problem. The good news is that with only a few steps, you can new and more active users. Time to learn how promotion can be done without the pushy tricks that marketing and salespeople use.
Why we use your open source project (or not)
Here are the most common mistakes made by open source projects, and tips on how to avoid them. Get more users with the right promotion!
Summary
While ‘shopping’ for some libraries, it struck me how many open source software projects are suffering from basic mistakes. Well, mistakes might sound too harsh. What I mean are those things you find on a project, which could be better. They are usually things not considered by the developer, as we (developers) were never told about them. Doing 20+ years of open source development now, I can safely say I made many mistakes.
Find and Disable Insecure Services on Linux
Learn how to find and disable those services on Linux that are nowadays are considered to be unsafe or known for the weak security.
Summary
The world has changed a lot in the last era, especially when it comes to computing. This applies also to the services we run on our Linux systems. Some of these services (like rlogin), were previously the defacto tools to do administration. Now they are considered to be bad and insecure. What makes a service insecure? Services can become insecure when they have characteristics like: No (or weak) authentication No (or weak) encryption Insecure protocols Running as root Authentication insecurities One example might be if a program only requires a password or pin, without any information like an username.