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more »Electronic Freedom Foundation Criticizes Ubuntu
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more »Security Lessons: Web Frameworks Evaluating web frameworks
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Oct 26, 2012- AMD/OpenJDK/Oracle explore use of GPUs
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- ASF Airavata
- Slackware 14 release
- Shuttleworth funds Inktank/Ceph
- New Apache toplevel project
- Zentyal 3.0 small business server reveals major release
- Keccak wins NIST
- SHA-3 competition
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more »OpenVAS The OpenVAS vulnerability scanner
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Aug 23, 2012- OSI accepting individual memberships.
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- Raspberry Pi ramps up production.
- FSFE protects licences when bankruptcy strikes.
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- Web Apps new to Ubuntu.
- LPI Forum
- RSA Anti Rogue App.
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IPv6 Pen Testing Pen testing on IPv6 networks
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