My third Book: Beginning OpenVPN 2.0.9

It’s been already some months since Packt published my newest “oeuvre”! During the last year, despite some minor organ transplantation :-),  I managed to update my OpenVPN book – and together with Norbert Graf I added lots of information about new features, setups and details of the recent releases of the world’s best open source VPN software.

The book covers all the cool features of the latest OpenVPN versions, including 2.1, 2.1.1 and all older versions, too. Topics like high availability, mobility, management interfaces and more are included now.

The book starts off with a in-deep introduction to VPNs, OpenVPN and its various installations on different platforms. A long, detailed section deals with the numeruous configuration options, followed by many examples for advanced setups. X.509 certificates and PKI key management make another big part of the book, followed by mobility, troubleshooting and firewalling.

Update: I found some minor mistakes in the book, mostly typos. Please read it and send any enhancement or hint, however small to my email address. Thanks a lot for any feedback that makes this book even better, and thanks a lot to all those thousands who bought the first edition during the last three years!

Linux4africa receives UNESCO Award

Like 2009, the Linux4africa Projekt has been named as one of the UNESCO Decade Projects for 2010. The award ceremony has just taken place in Munich, and Franz Epple and me were there to receive the award.

Open Source and the Simpsons – From the Red Hat Summit

According to Informationweek.com , Joel Cohen, writer for the Simpson’s TV show, held his keynote on the Red Hat Summit and explained how Open Source influenced the creative progress of the Simpsons.

Washington Post: Mobile Developers choose .NET and Java, Linux is on the Rise

The Washington Post cites Evans Data, stating that Linux is third choice, among Mobile Developers but steadily growing. The Paper says that .Net and Java lead are first in popularity, but the marketshares of Linux, Android and Mac OS are constantly growing.

Florian Fainelli’s Openwrt Speech at Fosdem 2008

Florian of the Openwrt Project has published papers and sources of the speech he held at the FOSDEM 2008

Openwrt is a recommendable, easy-to-use and feature-rich embedded Linux Distribution for many WLAN/DSL Routers,

Study: Microsoft Vista not adopted in business

A Survey (from the Microsoft IT Community itself) shows what consultants have been noticing for months: Vista is not accepted in companies: Few Have Plans To Migrate to Vista in 2008.

Study: Chances and Models for GIS Companies

Geobusinessmaps.org has released a study about chances and possibilities for companies doing Geographic Information Systems Services. According to the study, Googleearth has mobilized a huge new market.

The study can be found here.

Evansdata Study: Too few developers are doing Vista

Microsoft is in trouble. According to a study from Evansdata, most developers are still developing for XP rather than Vista. Only 8 percent said they were programming for the latter.

Here is the survey report.

Mobile Operating Systems: Linux, Symbian – and nothing else…

According to ABIresearch there is a tough competition on the mobile OS market between Linux and Symbian, and all other operating systems are far off.

The full study is here.

IDC Server report June 2008

The new IDC report on the Server Market is out: IDC June 2008.

Not surprisingly, Virtualization and Growth are the main topics. Africa grows by 16 %.