Open Source Software News Archives

The statistics from a CIO.com survey make it clear: Open-source solutions are becoming more commonplace in corporate IT, if not precisely mundane.

Sutus adds telephones to the package Whitepapers Zones Computerworld newsletters! Almost exactly seven years ago, I reviewed four different "All-in-One" Internet appliances that included file, e-mail and Web ...

Posted May 30th 2008 4:00PM by Brad Linder Filed under: Linux , Open Source The developers behind the open source KDE desktop environment made some major changes when they launched KDE 4.0. While KDE 3.5 had ...

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Novell Thursday reported net income of US$5.8 million for its fiscal 2008 second quarter pulling earnings up from a loss of $2.8 million in the same quarter last year.

All we've got are these pictures for now but the specs can't be far behind. Even the name "mini-Inspiron" comes from the file name of the Dell-supplied pics.

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit held on April 8-10 in Austin, Texas, may have been invitation only, but fortunately the LF has posted videos for the rest of us.

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Novell Inc turned a quarterly profit, versus a year-earlier loss, on lower expenses and a jump in sales of its Linux business software, it reported on Thursday.

A look at the latest version of the Mandriva Linux distribution... Despite a few minor glitches, after several weeks of testing the two Mandriva flavors, I have finally come across a distro that gives you the ...

The majority of U.K. developers who do not already use open source licenses for their products would do so if they had the choice, according to a new survey from Kingpin Intelligence.

Cistera Networks helps tie business applications and phone systems together. Company CTO Greg Royal explains how the company looks for scalability, integration, and agility, through measures such as minimizing ...

Following the open source model for collaborative software development could become a future trend Whitepapers Zones Computerworld newsletters! Following the open source model for collaborative software ...

Once upon a time, using open-source servers and applications for business was frowned upon in many circles.

Elonex is taking orders for a sub-$200 Linux-based laptop aimed at the British educational market.

A serious weakness in the OpenSSL random number generator made it easy for attackers to discover encryption keys John Pescatore Gartner The recent discovery of a potentially serious Secure Socket Layer flaw ...

Walter Bender, left, and Nicholas Negroponte, in 2006, with an early version the computer developed by the One Laptop Per Child project.

Viewed 524 Times Wind River Systems, Inc., the global leader in Device Software Optimization , today announced it is collaborating with Intel Corporation to create an open source Linux platform for the ...

We've seen the Everex CloudBook emerge from VIA's Nanobook reference design, so what's in store for the company's latest ultra-mobile PC venture? Today, VIA announced another reference design called the ...

Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, decided it was time to make peace. That's one reason, according to Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's deputy general counsel and vice president of intellectual property and ...

Josh Bressers Today we are excited to announce another community initiative--the Open Source Software Security community .

Choice Wireless of Wichita Falls, Texas and GTA Teleguam of Guam have recently deployed GSM, GSM/GPRS/EDGE OSS network management solutions from Telsasoft respectively.

Despite recent losses, Sun is remaining committed to promoting open source, saying that doing so will increase demand for its products in the future by creating new relationships with potential customers.

While the pre-installed OS on the Eee PC from Asus is limited and seems slightly child-like, its very functional, especially when compared the the gOS that comes loaded on the Everex Cloudbook that is slightly ...

Comparison Review: Linux USB flash distributions Linux in your pocket... Some Linux distributions, such as Mandriva Flash, are specially designed to work from flash devices.

Cuba's widespread adoption of free software has been slow going. Although the country announced its intention to switch over to open source software three years ago, so far only its customs service has adopted ...

New Apatar connector allows users to read/write data from/to DB2 tables, create integrations using multiple data sources, and improve the quality of data extracted from or written to IBM DB2 family products ...

The classical trade-off between system performance and ease of programming is one of the primary differentiators between general purpose and real-time operating systems.

According to Mr. Shuttleworth, the aforesaid software will be announced "in the first week of June," and it'll be called the Netbook Remix.

EMC has, as expected launched its Quantum software-based, de-duplicating, disk backup products.

Microsoft has published a new release candidate of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a critical ...

Linux e-mail vendor @Mail Monday released an open source version of its Webmail client and is making it available for free.

A flurry of release news this week led to the recurring question: Is Linux growing homogenous? If it is, is that such a bad thing? Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth played a role, suggesting that perhaps the ...

Looking to shake up the status quo, San Francisco-based Marketcetera is developing an open source platform for automated trading systems with feedback from a community of buy-side users.

A former Gentoo developer yesterday revealed that he has been working on a new hardcore Linux distribution, dubbed Exherbo.

A Waltham, Massachusetts-based company today unveiled a virtualization solution that it says breaks new ground in management, hardware enablement and interoperability.

The open source model has driven developments in design software, such as shared object libraries and open standards.

But more work needed on compatibility, even with some of Microsoft's own software.

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News By Rebecca Wanjiku May 23, 2008 After losing out on many software tenders to the government, the Linux Professional Association will engage the Public Procurement Oversight Authority in Kenya over ...

"We're announcing it in the first week of June. It's called the Netbook Remix," Shuttleworth said in an interview with the Guardian.

News By Dan Nystedt May 23, 2008 Micro-Star International plans to launch Wind, an ultra-low cost laptop that runs on Intel's Atom microprocessor, this June in the U.S., the company confirmed Friday.

Funambol, a firm specializing in cell phone software, has launched an online meeting place for mobile open source developers.

Novell announced it has received an SAP Pinnacle Award in the category "Technology: Co-Innovation for Core Business," recognizing Novell as an SAP partner who has made significant contributions to SAP's ...

Silicon Valley stalwart Sun Microsystems has transformed itself before, from a company known for high-powered workstations to a major supplier of servers during the first Internet boom.

The first release candidate of Firefox 3 has been made available to developers, ahead of the browser's scheduled full release in June.

May 22nd, 2008 by Glyn Moody Most of the time, Microsoft's public declarations are pretty easy to parse.

From correspondents in Karnataka, India, 04:30 PM IST Free software and open source tools are helping a range of Indian entrepreneurs to build software solutions that enhance the potential of computing for ...

OpenVista CIS provides a multi-platform , user-friendly and intuitive client interface through which clinicians can enter and view patient information.

Microsoft has played the 'good cop, bad cop' routine with the open source camp since claiming a year ago that users of open source software were violating its patents Whitepapers Zones Computerworld ...

Red Hat has now announced the availability of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. The updated edition comes loaded with enhancements in virtualization, clustering, and hardware support.

As a separate foundation, we will be able to advance Sugar's development even further The former president of software and content at One Laptop per Child has launched Sugar Labs in the wake of the project's ...

Moblin.org is an open source community for sharing software technologies, ideas, projects, code, and applications to create an untethered computing experience across Mobile Internet Devices , Netbooks, and ...

The improvement underscores the commitment of open source developers to create software of the highest integrity David Maxwell Coverity The quality and security of open source software is improving rapidly, ...

Microsoft made available for download Tuesday the latest beta of its virtualization add-on for Windows Server 2008.

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The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.

Fedora 9 is out. Red Hat says its community-driven operating system features the first non-destructive live USB with persistence which Red Hat thinks is a first of a kind anywhere and marks the first major KDE ...

As a newly discovered Internet security flaw sends online businesses running for cover, VeriSign, Inc.

Appcelerator ICEsoft Kaazing Nexaweb Sun KEYNOTES: Industry News Dimdim announced a new release of its web meeting software specifically for the open source community.

Silverlight tooling may be absent from the Visual Studio 2008 service pack beta , but cross-platform developers can now download the source code for Moonlight, the open source project chartered with building a ...

BakBone Software , the leading provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, has taken Vmware data protection to the next level by offering a solution that protects both individual and entire ...

“They're still not revealing the full truth, particularly the fact the keyspace involved is only 215 possible permutations per architecture and thus very easily compromised if someone has a botnet at their disposal”

The SANS Institute yesterday took the highly unusual step of issuing a yellow alert over a vulnerability in the cryptographic functions of Debian, the Linux distro that underpins Ubuntu. via The Register

“It'll be understood, woven in to the fabric and in product-development cycles, so it's well understood: 'Here is the parts of our product that will be open source.”

The recently appointed head of Microsoft's global Linux and open source team hopes the company will have a clear and comprehensible open source strategy by 2015. via The Register

The round was led by Amadeus Capital Partners , the European technology investor, and GIMV , a leading European private equity and venture capital provider. via Business Wire

PDF: Storage Is Changing Fast--Are You Ready? Sponsored by HP The storage landscape is headed for dramatic change, thanks to new technologies like Fibre Channel over Ethernet , pNFS, object-based storage and ... via Linux Today

“OpenVPN keys, DNSSEC keys, and key material for use in X.509 certificates and session keys used in SSL/TLS connections”

As has been widely reported, the maintainers of Debian's OpenSSL packages made some errors recently that have potentially compromised the security of any sshd-equipped system used remotely by Debian users. via DesktopLinux

“In the last couple of years it has moved from being the province of geeky individuals to becoming mainstream”

Computerworld newsletters! How can something given away for free end up being the world's largest industry of its type? Well, according to open source content management vendor Alfresco CEO John Powell the ... via Computerworld

Back in January of 2007 we had looked at Linux Virtualization Performance as we had compared a running native OS against the same operating system running as a virtualized guest OS using Xen, QEMU with the ... via DarkVision Hardware

A recent ACM paper, " A Tale of Four Kernels " compares FreeBSD, Linux, OpenSolaris, and the Windows Research Kernel in terms of code style and structure. via DragonFly BSD Digest

Categories: Software Many of you will know that I've been following the progress of the Firefox 3.0 browser carefully over the past few months. via ZDNet

Apple's Mac OS X gets kudos for its security. At this writing, there are no significant exploits for its security holes, and Apple has a good track record of patching vulnerabilities in a timely manner. via Houston Chronicle

OpenSSL is used, of course, for Secure Sockets Layer which provides authentication and encryption for web traffic, but it's also used for other cryptography functions. via ExtremeTech

Red Hat announced that announced that a European branch of the the New York Stock Exchange has implemented its Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. via DesktopLinux

“This is good momentum for LiMo, but its not devices. We have to see the devices in the market and they have to be open to developers. [LiMo and the OHA are] head-to-head in my mind, but LiMo seems to be making more serious progress.”

The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. via BuilderAU.com.au

This vulnerability was caused by the removal of two lines of code from the original version of the OpenSSL. via Wilson's Almanac

Posted May 15th 2008 10:30AM by Christina Warren Filed under: Internet , Utilities , Adobe Adobe has just made the prerelease version of Flash Player 10 available for download. via Download Squad

“For us to launch the laptop, we had no choice but to use open source”

So, I guess this makes it Two Operating Systems Per Child. The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. via CNET News.com

“There's a lot of different areas that you're going to have to look, not just within Debian”

A recently-disclosed vulnerability in widely used Linux distributions can be exploited by attackers to guess cryptographic keys, possibly leading to the forgery of digital signatures and theft of confidential ... via ComputerWorld

Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu honcho, has a post on his blog discussing "The Art of Release." He applauds the team and community that got version 8.04 out the door precisely on schedule. via Wired News

The first public release of Moonlight, which provides a Linux client implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology, was made available this week. via The Industry Standard

“If you can't find what you are looking for here, try the excellent source of community contributed documentation.”

A wiki can allow people on different continents to work together, or it can improve the efficiency of a six-person office. via LinuxInsider

Adobe on Thursday is expected to launch a beta test program for the latest version of its Flash Player software. via CNET News.com

Red Hat , a provider of open source solutions, has announced that NYSE Euronext utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network to maintain the reliability, high performance and security of its ... via EbizQ

“We expect that Linux Mobile will rapidly become our preferred operating system”

Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. via Crain's New York Business

Floating gnus will be the least of your worries if you don't patch your Debian-based OpenSSL install before the crackers find you. via Bit-tech.net main Feed

A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. via LinuxSecurity.com

Mark Shuttleworth, head of Canonical and founder of the Ubuntu project, has called on other Linux developers to synchronize releases of new versions of their distros. via The Register

By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Published: May 13, 2008, 4:56 PM EST Although by now we already know most of the details on the MSI Wind, the company has just cleared up some of the remaining questions - such as ... via TechSpot

Computerworld newsletters! Red Hat Fedora users who wanted an easier way to use the popular and free community-supported Linux operating system on portable USB thumb drives have had their wishes granted. via Computerworld