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Google Backs Open-source CERT Group
Submitted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 07:23 AM
Google company information - ( Google News )
news.yahoo.com -- Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community.
The search engine giant, long a proponent of open-source software, is now one of three sponsors of oCERT, the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team. See the complete story here.
Adobe brings AIR to Linux, joins Linux Foundation
Submitted Sunday, March 30, 2008 @ 10:40 PM
Adobe company information - ( Adobe News )
news.com -- Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to release an alpha version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and announce that it is joining the Linux Foundation. See the complete story here.
Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest
Submitted Sunday, March 30, 2008 @ 03:07 PM
Fujitsu company information - ( Fujitsu News )
Sony company information - ( Sony News )
news.yahoo.com -- The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference. See the complete story here.
Microsoft opens up its security work
Submitted Friday, December 28, 2007 @ 03:37 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
blogs.cnet.com -- Microsoft seems to finally be caving on the idea of security through obscurity. No, it's software isn't being open-sourced, but it is creating a public forum in which to discuss its security research and patch management process. The Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense blog is designed to "provide more information about Microsoft vulnerabilities, mitigations and workarounds, and active attacks.". See the complete story here.
Mozilla Releases First Beta of Firefox 3
Submitted Sunday, November 25, 2007 @ 11:25 PM
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
news.yahoo.com -- Mozilla launched a new beta of Firefox this week, essentially a developer preview of the features and functions promised in the third major point release of the popular open-source browser. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available for testing so Mozilla can gain feedback before the software advances to the next stage in the release process. See the complete story here.
Asus eeePC violates GPL say Linux stalwarts
Submitted Sunday, November 25, 2007 @ 09:56 PM
Asus company information - ( Asus News )
itwire.com -- Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License (GPL). Some Linux advocates claim the eeePC has not included required source code with the installed Xandros Linux distribution and does not easily enable users to install another distro. However, there are indications that eeePC fans probably don't care. See the complete story here.
$200 "gPC" Launches Today at Wal-mart
Submitted Monday, November 05, 2007 @ 08:54 PM
Google company information - ( Google News )
blogs.pcworld.com -- PC maker Everex rolls out a budget desktop PC today that costs $200 and combines the Ubuntu Linux kernel with Google applications and open source software. See the complete story here.
Microsoft sees progress in getting Windows on XO
Submitted Saturday, October 27, 2007 @ 03:44 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
news.yahoo.com -- Microsoft Corp has made progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival Linux software, an executive said on Thursday. See the complete story here.
Ubuntu 7.10 officially released
Submitted Sunday, October 21, 2007 @ 10:57 PM
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arstechnica.com -- Canonical has announced the official release of Ubuntu 7.10 (codenamed Gutsy Gibbon), the latest version of the popular Debian-based Linux distribution. Ubuntu 7.10 includes the GNOME 2.20 desktop environment as well as recent versions of Xorg, OpenOffice.org, and Firefox. See the complete story here.
Are You 'Gutsy' Enough to Replace Your OS with Linux?
Submitted Sunday, October 21, 2007 @ 10:52 PM
blogs.pcworld.com -- One thing is clear with new Linux distros such as Ubuntu's just-released "Gutsy Gibbon", or version 7.10, and openSUSE's 10.3, nipping at Windows' and Mac OS X's heels: The desktop OS is at a crossroads. See the complete story here.
Asus officially announces Eee PC
Submitted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 @ 07:31 PM
Asus company information - ( Asus News )
news.com -- It's official: Asus has announced that the Eee PC (which we've been tracking since August) will be making its way to North America within the next few weeks. The 2-pound, 7-inch, Linux-based laptop will be available in three configurations priced from $299 to $399. See the complete story here.
Red Hat, Novell sued for patent infringement
Submitted Saturday, October 13, 2007 @ 05:22 PM
Novell company information - ( Novell News )
infoworld.com -- Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell are being sued for patent infringement by IP Innovation and Technology Licensing Corp.
The plaintiffs claim they own US Patent No. 5,072,412 for a "User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects" issued Dec. 10, 1991, as well as two other similar patents. It is believed to be the first patent infringement lawsuit involving Linux. See the complete story here.
Google updates Linux version of Desktop
Submitted Saturday, October 13, 2007 @ 01:38 PM
Google company information - ( Google News )
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
news.com -- Keeping its Linux fan base in mind, Google has updated its Desktop for Linux, which it launched in June. With version 1.1, still in beta, you can search over more image formats and search the content of Microsoft Office documents. See the complete story here.
ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser
Submitted Sunday, October 07, 2007 @ 04:44 PM
Intel company information - ( Intel News )
phoronix.com -- The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel's new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard. Without spoiling the review of this motherboard that will be published shortly, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is one of the most innovative motherboards we have seen to date and it packs one very exciting and unusual feature. Embedded onto the P5E3 Deluxe is a Linux environment that features a Firefox-rebranded web browser and the Skype VoIP client! Within five seconds of turning on this $360 USD gaming/enthusiast motherboard, you can be using Linux and surfing the Internet. On this motherboard the feature is known as ASUS Express Gate, which is powered by something called SplashTop. SplashTop is an instant-on Linux desktop being created by DeviceVM. SplashTop isn't even launching for a few more days (October 10), but in this article we have more details on this embedded Linux environment as well as screenshots and our thoughts with what will hopefully come next for this Linux environment. See the complete story here.
Sun patches critical Java bugs
Submitted Friday, October 05, 2007 @ 09:23 PM
Sun company information - ( Sun News )
infoworld.com -- Sun patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows, Linux, and Solaris versions of its Java Runtime Environment and Java Web Start Wednesday, including several rated critical by outside researchers. See the complete story here.
Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
Submitted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 @ 01:52 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
news.com -- While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we've all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want. See the complete story here.
Firefox hits 400 million downloads
Submitted Sunday, September 16, 2007 @ 10:45 PM
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
zdnetasia.com -- The popular open-source browser Firefox hit another milestone on Friday when it passed the 400 million download mark. See the complete story here.
Microsoft Releases Silverlight; Linux Version Coming
Submitted Friday, September 07, 2007 @ 08:29 AM
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news.yahoo.com -- Microsoft released the first version of its cross-platform, cross-browser multimedia plug-in Silverlight on Wednesday along with a number of partnerships and customers the company said it hopes will drive 200 million installations of Silverlight by the end of next May. See the complete story here.
Linux Job Market Trends: Galloping Forward
Submitted Friday, September 07, 2007 @ 07:38 AM
itmanagement.earthweb.com -- The numbers, clearly, point to a major industry trend.
Take a look: Dice, the tech jobs site, reports that it had 9,631 Linux job listings in August. While this is a big number, what’s truly eye-catching is the percentage growth since January: Linux job listing are up a robust 30 percent – three times the increase of overall tech job listings. (Since January, Dice job listings have grown by 10.2 percent, to a total of 96,548 tech jobs.) . See the complete story here.
Google at work on desktop Linux
Submitted Monday, August 27, 2007 @ 02:46 PM
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Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
theregister.co.uk -- Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.
A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'. See the complete story here.
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