Open Source Computing

Week 5

July 31

Project testing: what should it look like

Week 6: project demos. Your project does not have to be finished, but you have to present something.

Discussion of homework

You will also be asked to submit, at the end of next week, a brief statement on how well participating in a group worked for you.

Exam and study guide

Linux security

    OpenSSL

    Security vulnerabilities (Meltdown, ProducingOSS p 139)

Social issues and Open Source

• governance
• "code"
• Jon Postel
• mission statements
• benevolent dictators (rms, Linus, Python's Guido van Rossum)
• toxicity

Communications

• Asynchronous v synchronous
• IRC vs Slack

Gimp and user interfaces

Look at kernel code

github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/ipv4/tcp.c

github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c

github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/net/tcp.h