Christmas open source guide

Could there be any better way to celebrate your holiday than reading about open source? We think not! Everyone loves open source!

Christmas open source guide

• Our massive open source VoIP guide was very well received.

• Asterisk is usually the go-to open source VoIP PBX; but there are alternatives to Asterisk.

• We found that we could test open source security tools with VMware, skipping the risk of doing it on a real machine.

• We cobbled together a comparison of open source and proprietary PBXs, for those of you weighing up the decision.

• The open source security tool Snort proved popular, so we told you how to get the most of out Snort.

• Open source components are popular in Web applications, but they're pretty insecure, hence our guide to keeping an eye on open source components in Web apps.

• When Google released its Code Search, we realised it had big ramifications for the open source community.

• Our interview series on the future of Unix had quite a bit to say about open source.

• Google's never far from the headlines, and the Google open source operating system for smartphones was no exception.

• Voice managers need to be a bit careful with the open source tools they adopt, so we told them how to go about it.

Farewell, readers! Enjoy your break.

- The TechTarget ANZ team