These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of October, 2014.
1. Breakthrough in Wireless Technology…Or Not by Ken Starks. Published October 7, 2014. Starks and a friend set out to construct a Rube Goldberg wireless antenna from a dumpling skimmer. Guess what? It works better than those sold at Best Buy or Radio Shack.
2. Synaptic Vs. Update Manager in Linux Mint by Ken Starks. Published October 28, 2014. An article in which our favorite gadfly wonders why Linux Mint can’t be updated the old fashioned way.
3. Researchers Release USB Exploit & Incomplete Fix on GitHub by FOSS Force staff. Published October 8, 2014. A news article reporting on the posting to GitHub of BadUSB exploit code.
4. Bringing Open Source to Scientific Research by Christine Hall. Published October 6, 2014. There’s trouble in academic city, but it has nothing to do with pool. It does, however, have something to do with pooling resources.
5. Four Simple Words to Remember on FOSS Forums by Larry Cafiero. Published October 22, 2014. Did you ever stir up a hornet’s nest on a FOSS forum just by politely asking for help? If so, don’t feel all alone…
6. Open Source Women, Preinstalled Linux & the SF Giants by Larry Cafiero. Published October 17, 2014. A Week in Review looking at Red Hat’s “Women in Open Source Awards” and OEM installed GNU/Linux. Oh yes, and baseball…
7. ‘Tux Machines’ DDOS Attack Moves to ‘TechRights’ by FOSS Force staff. A news story on a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the popular FOSS websites Tux Machines and TechRights.
8. Google Drive Download Blues by Ken Starks. Published February 27, 2014. What would you do if, without warning, you were told you couldn’t download from cloud storage because your file size is too large — even though you downloaded the same size file just a few days earlier?
9. Ubuntu Turns 10 & systemd Is Not Contagious by Larry Cafiero. Published October 24, 2014. In this Week in Review our Larry Cafiero helps Canonical celebrate birthday number ten and explains that, no matter what you think, systemd is not ebola. It’s not even the common cold.
10. The Wide World of Canonical by Larry Cafiero. Published October 31, 2014. Exactly how many countries are there? Canonical says that Ubuntu is available in 240 countries, yet according to United Nations estimates there are only 196 countries worldwide.
