Paid apps are becoming a rare item as the market moves to other funding models.
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Two Weeks to Complete New Goose Chase Missions, Win $500
We’ve added 10 new missions to the Great LinuxCon Wild Goose Chase. Here’s your chance to boost your score and vie for the top three spots as we head into the final few weeks before LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe. The grand prize is a $500 Amazon gift card, first place takes a $200 gift card and second place wins a $50 gift card. Winners will be announced during the event in Edinburgh, the week of Oct. 21.
Be sure to follow our Twitter account for occasional announcements on how to earn extra points.
If you’re ready to play, here’s how it works.
1) Download the GooseChase app from Android or iTunes.
2) Choose the Great LinuxCon Wild Goose Chase game. (Search ‘Linux’ if it doesn’t appear right away.)
3) Select and complete Missions to earn points. Missions consist of small, fun tasks for which you take a picture with your phone and submit it for points.
4) The most cumulative points by LinuxCon Europe wins!
To see some of the best photos submitted in round one, visit the “Best of LinuxCon Wild Goose Chase Photos” slideshow.
Training Scholarship Winner Andrew Dahl is an Aspiring Kernel Guru
Linux Foundation Training scholarship winner Andrew Dahl is relatively new to the Linux community but he’s already jumped in to help on the XFS file system, fixing bugs and reviewing a small number of patches. As a file system engineer at SGI, he works on NFS, XFS and SGI’s CXFS (Clustered XFS.) But in his spare time he likes to dabble in Qt application development and fix kernel bugs he finds on his current hardware.
Lines of code from his small bug fix for the XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE IOCTL, for example, were used during the refactoring and removal of a larger set of wrapper functions in XFS. He’s also currently looking into enhancing the touchscreen drivers for the Chromebook Pixel.
Dahl is one of five Linux developers and IT professionals to win a training scholarship from the Linux Foundation. Nearly 700 submissions were received in categories that included SysAdmin Super Star, Whiz Kid, Women in Linux, Kernel Guru and Developer Do-Gooder.
As the winner in the Kernel Guru category, Dahl plans to use the additional training in Linux kernel internals to improve his work at SGI and to further his career as a Linux kernel developer.
We followed up with all of the winners after the scholarships were announced at LinuxCon and CloudOpen in New Orleans to find out a little more about who they are and their goals as Linux professionals. Here are Dahl’s answers. Watch Linux.com in coming weeks for profiles featuring winners Sarah Kiden, Abdelghani Ouchabane, Nam Pho and Nandaja Varma.
For a full list of Linux training courses available, visit http://training.linuxfoundation.org.
Where are you from?
I’m a Minnesota native. I was born in the twin cities metro area, but I grew up in Sauk Centre, MN. Currently, I’m living in Woodbury, MN. And yes, I definitely have a Minnesotan accent!
Where did you go to college?
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Tell us something few people know about you.
In my first two years of driving, I owned a total of eight vehicles. — I’ve managed to only buy two in the latter seven years of driving, but I’m still very much a gear head in my spare time.
What is it about Linux kernel development that gets you excited?
I think what gets me most excited is the footprint my contributions to the Linux Kernel have. The code I contribute will run on millions of computers around the world. And the fact that my contributions are open and free makes me feel like I’m making a real difference in the world, as opposed to just one company, which is just the icing on the cake.
NSA Tried and Failed to Compromise Tor, But Browser Vulnerabilities Gave Some Users Away
Intelligence agencies have devoted significant time to cracking the Tor encryption network, reports The Guardian, but it’s largely failed to compromise the system. According to leaked documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald, the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ were frustrated by Tor, at one point in 2012 putting out a presentation called “Tor Stinks.” “We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time,” it says. “With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users.” While it’s known that the NSA was actively working to weaken cryptography, these documents suggest that it was, at least in the case of Tor’s network itself, unsuccessful.
However, the documents also describe other methods that could effectively…
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Samsung: We Didn’t Cheat on Galaxy Note 3 Benchmarks
Samsung denies reports that its Galaxy Note 3 superphone exaggerates its performance when it detects well-known benchmarks running. [Read more]
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Jobs Demand Rising for Linux and Open Source Skills
Have you been looking for a job, or perhaps some work on the side? If so, and you have Linux or other open source skills, the news is good. Demand for Linux and open source workers continues to rise. We’ve covered this trend as reported by careers sites such as Dice.com, and by The Linux Foundation, but one of the most detailed breakdowns appears at LinuxCareer.com, through its IT Skills Watch report. In addition to reporting on demand for Linux skills, it breaks down how the demand looks for workers with skills in other areas ranging from PHP to Apache Tomcat.
LinuxCareer.com bases its reports on data from employers. According to itls latest IT Skills Watch report, demand is high for open source workers with skills for development tools and environments including PHP, Ruby on Rails, and SQL.
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