Colin McManus SPO600

     Today I will be building the open source GNU package less. Less is a really handy tool for file reading that lets you traverse backwards as well as forwards through the file. Unlike it's cousin more, less does not have to read the entirety of a file before starting so its great for quickly accessing large files.      The first step is to get the code for it on the server. I am building on AArchie so I will use wget to download the tar file (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/less-530.tar.gz):      Now I have the compressed tar file a simple tar -xzf less-530.tar.gz  command (-x for extract, -z for decompression with gzip, -f since we are decompressing a file) will unpack it so I can begin my build. I now have a less-530 directory in my working directory and once I move into it I can see the guts of the less package:      The safest choice from here to ensure I don't break my build is to check the README file to...

     While most people today have at least heard of Open Source software, many people, myself included, don't know a lot about how the development process works or how these communities are structured and managed. Today's post will explore these topics in reference to two Open Source projects from different licences, Privacy Badger under the GNU General Public License and Deeplearning4j under the Apache2.0 License. Privacy Badger:      Privacy Badger is a browser extension aimed at striking a balance between a user's right to privacy and content providers' business interest. By only blocking ads and cookies that ignore the Do Not Track setting of the user's browser, thus as long as a content provider isn't hosting those types of ads they won't lose out on ad revenues.      Privacy Badger is run primarily off of its GitHub repository (link below) and it seeks to make contribution easy by keeping a list of desired issues to tackle that ar...