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Dell has released an experimental version of Google's Chrome OS adapted for its own Mini 10v Netbook.

An updated dstat package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

November 30, 2009 -- GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, will be held in The Hague, Netherlands from the 24th through the 30th of July 2010.

The story of the Linux job candidate who lost out because he couldn't access the online competency test he needed to take using Firefox on his Linux computer has divided the blogosphere.

Huh? You can benefit from Open Source Software? This question usually paints a confusing scenario in the local IT community and brings about many misconceptions, The answer to this question will be approached from two different angles, from a developers point of view and then a business point of view.

Source: PC World Just got your hands on Windows 7 and want to bend it to your will? No problem.

Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD .

Among the many reasons to be thankful for Linux and all that is FOSS are qualities like portability, flexibility, comprehensiveness, a cooperative nature, receptivity to innovation -- oh, and the fact that open source makes such things possible as an electric motorcycle that can tear up the highway at 130 mph.

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According to a press release dated this morning, Archos is making proof-of-concept "developer edition" firmware available for its ARCHOS 5 and ARCHOS 7 Internet Media Tablets.

Zertificon Solutions GmbH , the provider of professional e-mail encryption solutions, is set to release new versions of its products.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 22:25 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel "A week ago we reported that a second preview release of Project Indiana, Sun's attempt at creating an operating system for the desktop based upon OpenSolaris and led by Ian Murdock, was on track to be released in the near future.

Open source software could provide a model for better e-health collaboration, but should not be seen as a panacea for addressing the interoperability challenges in healthcare, according to a leading healthcare industry CIO.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release.

"Unlike KFC, KDE won't be offering crispy chicken and stale biscuits. What KDE will be offering is "distinct brands for the software that was previously referred to generically as 'KDE'." Instead of offering KDE 4.4 in 2010, the project will be releasing the "KDE Software Compilation 4.4." "According to the post, the rationale for the switch is ...

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"So, let's go back a little bit - not much: just a year or so. You are Google and you want to provide the operating system for the next generation of users, the ones who didn't start with Excel and Word, but with Facebook and Flickr.

"Ubuntu" is a Bantu word that conveys an African humanist philosophy, and as promoted and discussed by figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, one of the organizing ideals of the Republic of South Africa following the transition away from apartheid rule in 1994.

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, which took place last week, it was announced that the next release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.04, will no longer carry the GIMP in its default installation .

We all know what KDE stands for, right? Unless you're new here, you'll know that it stands for the K Desktop Environment.

During a planning session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit last week, a decision emerged to remove the GIMP from the default Ubuntu installation.

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In a desperate bid for survival, long-time office software maker Corel has agreed to a takeover by its majority investor, Vector Capital, a move that could help keep classic software packages such as WordPerfect and CorelDraw around as Microsoft Office alternatives, at least for a while.

Jolicloud, an upcoming web-centric operating system for netbooks, will be prettier and more flexible than Google's Chrome OS, the company's CEO says.

The IT secretary said that advancements in technology have changed the concept of libraries.

If you have installed a LAMP server either on your Linux desktop or server, you are bound to run into this problem.

Emblaze MOBILE unveils its revolutionary new mobile device: The first ELSE State-of-the-art mobile device to deliver simple AND intuitive user experiences LONDON, 24 November 2009 - Emblaze Mobile, the Israeli design house for cutting-edge mobile technology and a member of the Emblaze Group , today formally unveiled the First ELSE , a ...

There are many faces behind what goes on at the Linux Foundation: the officers and employees who run the day to day show, the Board of Directors who keep the ship on course, and of course, the volunteers who support, promote, and participate in the Foundation's activities.

Misconceptions and misinformation have surrounded the Chrome OS almost since the day it was announced.

Your eyes are like limpid pools a LOT of limpid pools. This came to me while reading Dave Eave's post about the challenges of turning the promise of crowd-sourced quality control in open-source development - the idea that " many eyes make all bugs shallow ".

Not very long ago, Aaron wrote an article about improving our user experience, stating that "Micro-Options Suck" . Coincidentally, an article appeared on dot.kde.org only a few hours later, stating the following: "Choice Is Not A Usability Problem" . Ardent readers will notice that there is possibly a contradiction here.

In Linux computers, dd command-line utility offers several advantages such as converting raw data or low-level copying of data from hard drive to any other storage media.

November 21 was the seventh anniversary of MEPIS Linux, so it seems fitting that Warren Woodford has uploaded SimplyMEPIS 8.4.80, the alpha release of MEPIS 8.5. Available from MEPIS and public mirrors, the ISO files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.4.80-a0_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.4.80-a0_64.iso. Warren Woodford explained the ...

" As of 2010, education and training centres in Vietnam will have to use open-source software to cut cost and avoid software copyright infringement, according to a draft circular from the Education and Training Ministry .

The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.10 Follow me on Twitter Last edited 11/10/2009 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.

The software package, which runs on the Canonical Ubuntu Linux operating system, is aimed primarily at businesses and organizations that cannot afford traditional PCs and proprietary software for all employees.

Klaus Knopper has released version 6.2 of his Debian-based live-CD Linux distro.

For those who have fret about Microsoft fighting against open source, I have news for you: Microsoft's impact on open source may be worse as a friend than as an enemy.

When Google made their announcement yesterday [Thursday November 20, 2009], included in their release statement was the fact that their new operating system would be open source.

Now this is one to ponder. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama, president of the United States.

Eric Lai, Computerworld Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google's demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space.

Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now.

Facebook is not only the world's biggest social network, it's also one of the most popular places to share photos .

Actuate Corporation , the people behind BIRTa , has awarded a 2009 Excellence Award for BIRT Innovation to Leslie Jarrett of the Bank of East Asia Ltd in London, for applying a forward-thinking approach to tackling compliance using open source information reporting.

Getting under the hood of an old computer that may have seen better days isn't everyone's idea of fun.

LiMo Foundation announced that Korean wireless provider SK Telecom will deploy a Samsung-made "SCH-M510 "phone that complies with the LiMo specification and offers a 3.5-inch AMOLED display.

Google unveiled its Debian Linux- and Chrome browser based "Chrome OS" today and announced the open-sourcing of the project.

November 17, 2009 - 12:20 P.M. Linux powers the fastest computers on the planet 136 comments Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their remarkable speeds.

For the past two decades, scale-out server cluster architecture has been the dominant trend in supercomputing, as users and vendors move away from big iron high-performance computing -- but at what cost? At the Supercomputing 09 conference this week, HPC users and experts weighed in and said that scale-out supercomputing with commodity hardware has ...

EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 18, 2009 - Mentor Graphics Corporation , a leading provider of embedded Linux and Android solutions , today announced its delivery of the Android Development System for the Texas Instruments Incorporated OMAP35x processors based on ARM Cortex -A8 technology.

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, climbed down from the tree last month with new features and updated software.

SC09 -- QLogic Corp. , a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, along with other high performance computing industry leaders, was awarded HPCwire's Editor's Choice for "Best HPC Collaboration Between Government and Industry" at SC09.

Nokia appears to be preparing to lose the Symbian operating system on its N-series range of top-end smartphones.

November 18, 2009 - MIPS Technologies, Inc. , a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, today announced availability of the Arriba for Android Porting Kit for its industry-standard MIPS architecture.

SGI has introduced a high-performance computing system that can leverage Intel's eight-core Xeon server processor, scheduled to ship early next year.

I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it's looking much more like Google--not Canonical--will be the first Linux vendor to truly challenge Microsoft.

Fedora 12 made its official debut today, after a two-week slippage in its release schedule.

I think we can finally put a certain myth to rest that's been circling around the web for a while now.

November 10, 2009 - BitDefender , an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today announced that BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 has once again achieved a Gold Award in the latest Virus Bulletin Anti-Spam Comparative Review.

Jordan: 1 hour, 11 minutes ago Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Jordan's Security Depositary Center , a non-profit public utility institution that oversees the registration and deposit of securities, has implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation to its open source strategy.

SGI , a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today unveiled Altix UV, expanding the definition of supercomputing.

Dell announced a miniature PC using single- or dual-core AMD processors that is available with Ubuntu Linux.

Tech Data Corporation , a leading IT products distributor, today announced Open Tech, a new channel for open source independent software vendors to market and sell their solutions to thousands of resellers nationwide.

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Hi there. In order to keep the tradition, an introduction in this first post. I'm Raphael Kubo da Costa, a 20-year-old Computer Science student at State University of Campinas , Brazil, and also part-time employee at ProFUSION Embedded Systems .

As you may have noticed, the Edubuntu project have been going through some big changes recently.

Arun Subbarao, VP of Engineering at LynuxWorks, will be contributing security expertise on the panel "Networking/Security: Keeping Hackers and Malware Out" to discuss potential threats and attacks on different types of connected embedded systems.

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 15 : The Kerala government has adopted free and open source software for the state education department and for e-governance. The curriculum department Saturday has also recommended extension of FOSS to higher secondary schools.

KDE is not a desktop that should be overlooked. Not only did it completely redefine itself upon the launch of 4.x, it has added features that have made it unique in the land of desktops.

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Red Hat , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, Int3s, today announced that Toronto Hydro Corporation has deployed JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform for its innovative Smart Meter program and has successfully completed the initial phases of its program ...

An experiment in Nicaragua shows just how powerful Open Source software can be in leveling the playing field.

Oracle's battle with European regulators over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems boils down to a conflict about the importance of free software and the government's role in protecting it.

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Communications chip company Broadcom Corp. has said it will provide its BroadVoice family of voice codecs avaible free of charge.

Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2009-3547: A race condition during pipe open could be used by local attackers to elevate privileges.

You might not be able to buy a brand-new netbook running Windows XP much past the New Year, even though Microsoft has committed to offering that operating system for another year.

PC maker Acer has switched to Google's Android portable operating system for a new Acer Liquid smartphone and a new netbook version of the Aspire One laptop, the D250.

The Portland Group has announced that release 2010 of the PGI line of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

An experiment in Nicaragua shows just how powerful Open Source software can be in leveling the playing field.

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.5 also introduces the Provisioning of Debian Linux Systems and refreshes the Deployment Support of new Linux Distributions from Red Hat, Novell, Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu REDWOOD CITY, CA, November 12, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- LinMin, maker of award-winning Linux-based LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning , today ...

Open source has moved into a new phase where it is evaluated more on its technical merits than on the community model of software development.

It was discovered that QtWebKit did not properly handle certain SVGPathList data structures.

On its fifth birthday, Firefox must be considered both an incredible success and somewhat of a failure.

Following a recent investigation, European anti-trust regulators have formally objected to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced Version 8.0 of its ispLEVER FPGA design tool suite , which includes many enhancements for the design of high speed double data rate interfaces for the LatticeECP3 FPGA family.

CodeSourcery has added support for the ARM Cortex-A5 processor to its GNU C/C++ toolchain and Eclipse IDE .

Today, Oracle issued the following statement: Oracle's acquisition of Sun is essential for competition in the high end server market, for revitalizing Sparc and Solaris and for strengthening the Java development platform.

Microsoft has halted distribution of its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool after questions were raised as to whether the software utility makes improper use of open-source code.

The combined solution will be available in several configurations. The first configuration will include an appliance-based backup solution , powered by Seagate technology, which is scheduled for delivery in first half of 2010 with the release to manufacturing of DPM 2010.

November 10, 2009 By Sean Michael Kerner : Microsoft and Novell entered into a landmark Linux to Windows interoperability, patent and sales deal in 2006 and today, three years later, the partnership is still going strong as it begins its next phase.

Introduction Amarok is a great music player for linux. In the current reales of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic also the current stable version of Amarok was introduced into the repositories.

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Oracle Corp. said Monday it will "vigorously" fight the European Commission's formal antitrust objections to the corporate-software giant's $5.6 billion bid for Sun Microsystems Inc.

CodeSourcery, a leading provider of tools for professional embedded C and C++ developers, announces the immediate availability of Sourcery G++ 4.4 for ARMA , ColdFireA , IA32, MIPSA , Power ArchitectureA and SuperHA processors.

Earlier this month, we reported that The Unofficial Apple Weblog's as well as Ars Technica's sources said that Apple was working on the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard.

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In this issue we cover: * Lucid open for development * Ubuntu Open Week review * Updating the Ubuntu Code of Conduct * Ubuntu Marketing Team revival and SpreadUbuntu * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo News: Tunisia, Norway, New York State, Massachusetts * Ubuntu Forums Tutorial of the Week * Ubuntu Hits Italian National TV * In the Press & Blogosphere * ...

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Recently the faculty of my college along with the support of the students organized a Linux workshop.

Versant Corporation , an industry leader in specialized data management software, announces that the open source license used for the db4o product offering is being upgraded to the GPLv3 license.

Intel's open-source Moblin OS will jump from netbooks to other mobile devices, desktops and in-car computers, Intel announced at the Intel Developer Forum.

The numbers are in and Windows 7 sales are strong , but with lagging PC sales and increased competition from other operating systems, is Windows in trouble? Apple recently reported one of its best quarters ever, and interest is high in current and future products coming out of Cupertino.

ABI Research is projecting that in 2009 Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook sales, far higher than the seven percent figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report.

Mandriva is another one of the Linux distributions that has been around for quite some time.

These remote packages are missing security patches : - libgd-tools - libgd2 - libgd2-dev - libgd2-noxpm - libgd2-noxpm-dev - libgd2-xpm - libgd2-xpm-dev Solution: Upgrade to : - libgd-tools-2.0.35.dfsg-3ubuntu2.1 - libgd2-2.0.33-2ubuntu5.4 - libgd2-dev-2.0.33-2ubuntu5.4 - libgd2-noxpm-2.0.35.dfsg-3ubuntu2.1 - libgd2-noxpm-dev-2.0.35.dfsg-3ubuntu2.1 ...

November 6, 2009, 02:43 PM - Most of the time you can go for months, years, without patching your Linux distribution and not be in any real danger.

It's been 10 years since the Apache Software Foundation hung out its feather, creating what has become a series of communities filled with focused project entrepreneurs working on a laundry list of innovative efforts, one of which landed in the White House just a few weeks ago.

Ubuntu Customization Kit is a tool that helps you to customize official Ubuntu Live CDs to your needs.

The latest desktop operating system market figures , which show Windows 7 commanding an almost 4 percent market share, must have Apple banging its head in frustration.

Today, Rob Housman, the Executive Director of the Cyber Secure Institute, put out this statement concerning two disturbing trends in cybersecurity: the growing number of unsupportable security claims and the increasing reliance on widely held beliefs as opposed to tested and proven technologies.

Red Hat has released new components in its enterprise virtualisation portfolio, including a standalone hypervisor and management platform for servers.

After ABI Research projected that Linux will take a 32 percent share of netbooks in 2009 and overtake Windows in 2013, we spoke with ABI analyst Jeffrey Orr on the findings.

Apache at 10: You Can't Buy Us Pioneers of the open source foundation explain the benefits of their software meritocracy.

Red Hat , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced momentum in support for high-end workloads on Linux with the expansion of its Advanced Mission-Critical Program offering for customers.

If you're buying a new netbook for this holiday season, odds are that it will be loaded with Windows 7 Starter Edition.

McAfee Application Control 5.0 is the result of McAfee's acquisition of Solidcore and the integration of Solidcore S3 Control with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator .

Red Hat expanded its virtualization product portfolio this week with the launch of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform.

Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm.

Symantec Corp. released a new version of its bare-metal restore software that adds support for Linux servers and tightens integration for centralized management of server backups.

WALTHAM, USA: Novell, Inc., which delivers interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software, has recently laid off over 100 people, said a Cnet report.

Agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel.

Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro.

Standalone hypervisor and management solution released as Linux vendor takes on Microsoft and VMware.

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Marvell Semiconductor announced a partnership with electronic paper display vendor E Ink, targeting joint development of processors for e-readers. Based on Marvell's new Armada SoCs , the technology is available in Linux-ready turnkey platforms, and forms the basis of Android e-readers from Entourage Systems and Spring Designs.

The Ubuntu 9.10 server and desktop editions, as well as the 9.10 versions of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio, were released late last week, causing the Ubuntu.com site to suffer periodic downtime, according to web analytics firm Netcraft .

Apple is reportedly breaking Hackintoshes -- meaning netbooks illegimately installed with Mac O S X -- with its latest update to Leopard.

Skype's Linux version will soon become open source software - and maybe run on every smartphone, TV set-top box or other gadget powered by the free operating system.

In this issue we cover: * Ubuntu 9.10 released * Ubuntu Open Week * Ubuntu One Blog: File sync status update * Canonical Blog: Landscape 1.4 Adds UEC Support * Asia Oceania Membership Board - 27 Oct 09 * New MOTU * Ubuntu Stats * Ubuntu LoCo News: AZ, Dublin, Tamil, El Salvador, & Italy * Meet Francis Lacoste * Accessing Git, Subversion and ...

The Gnome2 GlobalMenu project is an attempt to produce a GTK module and panel applet for gnome2 that acts as a global public menu for all gtk-powered applications.

One of the key new features in Ubuntu 9.10 is Ubuntu One and the ability to sync files into the cloud.

Gadgetism.org > What's Your Favorite Google Wave Gadget?>> SUSE Linux Enterprise ... [ SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas ] The crux of Google Wave is the extensions/apps or what Google Wave is calling "Gadgets" . Embeds and robots will have their place, but most likely not for the common user.

Unicon, Inc., a leading IT consulting services provider, specializing in open source for the education market, will be presenting briefings on choices in open source software.

It's nearly time to retire 2009, yet many conferences for the Linux and open source community are just about to happen.

If you are one of those that depends upon a scanner for your daily work, and you want to handle this task using the Linux operating system, you are in luck.

TECH Q & A THE NEW YORK TIMES QIs it possible to use a regular Windows laptop for GPS navigation in the car instead of buying a separate expensive gadget? ATurning your laptop computer into a large-screen global positioning system is certainly possible and can be done for less than $100, depending on the hardware and software you choose.

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Tom and Rafe discuss life with Windows 7 , Entourage, Seagate hard drives, Ubuntu and more.