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Microsoft announced that it was kicking up a notch its initial investment into Linux dating back to 2006, by pouring no less than $100 million into the open source operating system via Novell. According to the Redmond company, the $100 million will be spent on acquiring support certificates for Novell SUSE Linux Ente... |
20 August 2008
08:03 GMT |
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It's a time of joy and happiness for Linux fans, as two days ago the famous Debian Linux distribution turned 15 years old. Debian is well known for its adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies, and for its software packages that satisfy most of the computer architectures on the market. The story behi... |
18 August 2008
05:29 GMT |
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This was my first ever adventure with a Slakware-based GNU/Linux distribution so I cannot say it has been an easy, effortless task, but that's probably just my lack of experience, because, after I finished the installation and testing of Zenwalk 5.2 Beta Gnome edition, it all made much more sense. Still, I would... |
15 August 2008
08:17 GMT |
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Yahoo! announced today that its application, Zimbra Desktop, which was launched last month, would be available for the Linux platform. Canonical, a company that supports Linux distribution, has just signed an agreement with Yahoo! that will give Linux users the possibility to have offline access to multiple email acc... |
7 August 2008
12:20 GMT |
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Despite constantly downplaying the relevance of Linux and Mac OS X, because of a variety of reasons, from high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to security risks and inferior shipment volumes, Microsoft is well aware of the real threat to Windows represented by the open source platform and Apple's operating system.... |
1 August 2008
09:50 GMT |
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The anti-Microsoft recipe is rather simple and with evident ingredients. And in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Redmond giant spelled out the main risks and competitors to its business: Linux, open source, Google and Apple. The software giant has made inroads on a vari... |
1 August 2008
07:30 GMT |
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Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple. Furthermore, the Redmond company, once the epitome of the proprietary software business model, while still retaining its... |
30 July 2008
13:13 GMT |
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The CentOS 5.2 i386 LiveCD was released by the CentOS Development team yesterday, as announced by Patrice Guay. The LiveCD is based on the CentOS-5.2 i386 distribution, and it also offers the possibility to perform a netinstall thanks to the "Network Install" option.You can use the CentOS 5.2 LiveCD as a workstation,... |
18 July 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Gibraltar Firewall 2.6, a Linux firewall distribution based on Debian, was launched yesterday as announced by Rene Mayrhofer. This will be the last release that will use the Linux kernel 2.4, as the next Gibraltar editions will use the 2.6 kernel. Among other things, this edition of Gibraltar offers improved traffic ... |
18 July 2008
06:52 GMT |
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A new release of LinuxConsole, a modular Linux Live CD, was announced by Yann Le Doaré a few days ago. The new version, 1.0.2008, has been created from a brand new toolchain that's based on gcc 4.2.2 and glibc 2.7. The 2.4 Linux kernel was taken out from this edition and was replaced with 2.6.25.4. It is also pa... |
16 July 2008
10:57 GMT |
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MontaVista Software announced yesterday that its Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) 5.0 Linux distribution is compliant with the Linux Foundation's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 specification. It has also earned Linux Standard Base (LSB) 3.0 certification, and is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) logo certified. At th... |
16 July 2008
08:19 GMT |
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Windows is generally perceived as the perpetual bronze winner in a three horse race against Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux, despite the fact that Microsoft continues to account for in excess of 90% of the operating system market. According to the Redmond company, the operating system vulnerability co... |
14 July 2008
10:44 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday the availability of the brand new 2.6.26 Linux kernel. It comes with support for read-only bind mounts, x86 Page Attribute Tables (PAT), improved webcam support with the help of a driver for UVC devices, and many other improvements.Linus Torvalds said about the new edition: "So it&#... |
14 July 2008
05:33 GMT |
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There's Windows Vista, and there's the rest. Microsoft's perspective was eloquently made public at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, Texas, on July 10, 2008. The Redmond company claims nothing less than that Windows Vista is superior to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard,... |
11 July 2008
09:16 GMT |
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You can now get your hands on the latest release of GoblinX Standard 2.7, which has been brought to you after more than four months of work. The prior stable release, GoblinX 2.6, was released sometime in mid-February - on the 18th, to be more precise.The first ISO of GoblinX Standard was released at the end of Octob... |
10 July 2008
10:49 GMT |
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After a long time in development, Gentoo Linux 2008.0 was finally released and it seems that its developers gave it a funny code name - "It's got what plants crave" - as Donnie Berkholz announced on the official Gentoo site.Gentoo's installer was upgraded and it can only perform networkless installations by... |
7 July 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Even with the latest service pack releases for the two supported Windows clients, rival operating systems Linux and Mac OS X are still eating away at the install base of Microsoft's proprietary operating system. Concomitantly with the retirement of Bill Gates from his day to day role with the Redmond company, Wi... |
3 July 2008
11:20 GMT |
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Sabayon Linux 3.5 was launched, as announced by Fabio Erculani on the official forums. The popular distro is available for x86 and x86_64 architectures, featuring the Linux kernel 2.6.25.9 with extended wireless, laptop and filesystem (including unionfs, aufs, squashfs, ext4 and NTFS-3g) support.Sabayon 3.5 was coden... |
2 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Probably one of the most important company acquisitions in the Linux world happened: Linspire was bought by Xandros. The event took place yesterday, and the cost of the acquisition was kept secret from the media.Xandros decided to keep the most important aspects of Linspire, so employees from engineering, support and... |
2 July 2008
09:29 GMT |
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No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in t... |
2 July 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Neo Freerunner, Openmoko's open-source Linux-based smartphone unveiled at the end of 2007, is finally on its way to online retailers and will be available starting the first half of July. This comes after the smarpthone was initially announced for an April release, but it was delayed because of some unnamed hard... |
30 June 2008
10:30 GMT |
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Motorola's latest touchscreen handsets, A810 and Ming A1600, are now featured on Moto's Chinese official website, which means they will both be soon available across China. The new handsets were first seen together back in April, when Motorola's Chinese line-up of handsets was unveiled. At the time... |
24 June 2008
08:50 GMT |
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One of the major and most popular Linux distributions has reached another edition today, openSUSE 11.0. openSUSE is well known for its ease of use and this version comes with more than 200 new features, a brand new installer and faster package management due to the updates in the ZYpp stack. As 'option' see... |
19 June 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Zenwalk Live 5.2 was announced yesterday by Pierrick Le Brun. The latest Live CD is based on Zenwalk Current and comes with a modified edition of the Linux Live Scripts and a Linux kernel that was a little bit changed to allow some Live CD features to function correctly, like the remastering of the Live CD on a USB k... |
19 June 2008
04:20 GMT |
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If you were waiting for Firefox 3.0, be glad, as the wait is now over! The final release is available for download, and you probably want to help Mozilla set that world record, so start downloading!Before doing this, you will have to pledge that you will download Firefox today. This way, Mozilla will keep track of al... |
17 June 2008
10:25 GMT |
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Technology Alignment announced today the release of Pioneer Explorer and Pioneer Basic 3.2, the latest editions of its Linux distributions which are based on Kubuntu 8.04. The Pioneer operating systems will continue to have a 7-year lifecycle with the Release 3 series, one of the longest lifecycles in the Linux world... |
17 June 2008
06:09 GMT |
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This is it! The wait is now over! Firefox 3.0 Final is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla announced since last week, following the release of the Release Candidate 3 Build, that the gold bits for Firefox 3.0 would be made available on June 17, 2008, and managed to meet the deadline. Altho... |
17 June 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Rack-Soft just announced the availability of the free connection module between 4PSA VoipNow, its hosted PBX server software and Parallels Plesk. By integrating Parallels Plesk with 4PSA VoipNow under a single administration interface, the new software offers a unified communication platform.Bogdan Carstoiu, Rack-Sof... |
16 June 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Another week just passed and there were a few interesting things in the Fedora world, like the Board Elections that opened three days ago, the FedoraLife concept proposed by Markus McLaughlin, and the reminder for Fedora 7 End of Life.Paul Frields was the one who announced on the fedora-announce mailing list the open... |
16 June 2008
09:57 GMT |
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Greenie Linux 3.0.2H, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed for Czech and Slovak-speaking users, was announced by Stanislav Hoferek and its main goal is to provide a simple to use operating system for everyday tasks, targeted at beginners and advanced users at the same time. Greenie looks much better now, as it... |
16 June 2008
08:22 GMT |
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A few days ago, the linuX-gamers Live DVD version 0.9.3 was launched, packed with a lot of games of different types (FPS, RPG, strategy, arcade, etc.). This is a 'boot-and-play' Linux distribution, therefore it will allow you to play the games directly from the DVD without having to install anything at all ... |
16 June 2008
06:17 GMT |
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ArtistX 0.5, a Debian-based Live DVD Linux distribution, was announced a few days ago by Marco Ghirlanda. This distro is full of applications for audio, video and graphics creation & editing. It uses the Linux kernel 2.6.25, KDE 3.5 as desktop manager and, as a bonus, you get Compiz 0.7.7 (from Debian unstable) for m... |
16 June 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Microsoft made no secret out of having, for some time now, been cooking the next iteration of Windows, a translucent development process with very little transparent areas including details such as multi-touch, support for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and the evolution of the Windows Vista kernel, graphics and au... |
14 June 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Myah OS 3.0 Box, a Linux distribution that's built around LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), was released, as announced by Jeremiah Cheatham. The "Box" was created with the aim to provide a fully functional operating system built around a light desktop environment.If you've used the previous versio... |
13 June 2008
09:52 GMT |
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The 2.1 release of Voltalinux, a server oriented Linux distribution was announced by Matteo Garofano. Voltalinux is based on the popular Slackware Linux and uses the pkgsrc package management system from NetBSD.Voltalinux 2.1 includes many of the features available on Slackware Linux 12.1, like a new kernel, HTTP and... |
11 June 2008
09:35 GMT |
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Reseller hosting packages provided by almost every company offer customers various services in their own name. In this way, the reseller is able to provide custom web hosting plans (with custom prices), sell domain names, create and delete new user accounts and generally manage every detail regarding various aspects ... |
9 June 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Statistics for the operating system market come in different flavors and from a variety of sources but they all have one thing in common: indicating that Windows is losing ground to Mac OS X and Linux. As far as Microsoft is concerned, it reached the apex of the operating system market with the launch of Service Pack... |
7 June 2008
07:50 GMT |
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Computers running open source Linux operating systems have problems connecting to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 machines when cryptographic security services are involved. Essentially, the problem affects all distributions of Linux and both Vista RTM and SP1 and is related to failures to establish IPsec connections be... |
4 June 2008
12:38 GMT |
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Foresight 2.0.2 GNOME Edition has been launched today as announced by Ken VanDine and brings you the latest GNOME edition, 2.22.2. Foresight features a rolling release schedule that will keep your desktop up to date by using the latest packages.The Linux kernel used by Foresight is now 2.6.25 with improved hardware c... |
29 May 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Lucas Rocha, one of the developers at GNOME, has announced the release of GNOME 2.22.2, the latest update to the 2.22 branch of the desktop environment. The next stable device will be GNOME 2.22.3, due to be launched on June 30.In September, we will see GNOME 2.24, which promises some interesting new features and imp... |
29 May 2008
04:36 GMT |
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NVidia decided to please the Linux world and launched another version of their graphics driver. The new display driver is version 173.14.05, which doesn't bring so many changes in comparison with the Beta releases.What does the NVidia 173.14.05 driver bring? It comes with support for GeForce 9800GTX, 9800GX2, 96... |
29 May 2008
03:48 GMT |
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The team from Elive has released a new development edition of the Debian-based LiveCD with the latest Enlightenment 17 (E17) window manager. The version of this edition is 1.7.5 and comes with the updated kernel 2.6.24.7.Some modifications were made in the graphical configurations suite, a workaround was created for ... |
28 May 2008
06:13 GMT |
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SystemRescueCd, a Live CD distribution based on Gentoo and used for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks, has reached version 1.0.3. The latest edition comes with the updated Linux kernel 2.6.25.4 with Reiser4 support.The alternative kernels were updated to Linux 2.6.24.07 with Reiser4, and the UnionFS filesystem ... |
28 May 2008
05:29 GMT |
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In present days, almost any average Internet user can make a website and put it online due to the existence of software utilities that make automatic the basic operations necessary to be performed in order to create an online presence. When you are determined to build a website and publish it on the Internet, the sc... |
27 May 2008
11:13 GMT |
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The release of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD was announced by Attila Craciun. Bluewhite64 Linux is a port of Slackware Linux to the x86_64 architecture, that offers advanced features and improved performance. Besides the LiveDVD, a LiveUSB version is also available.The LiveDVD uses the SMP Linux kernel 2.6.24.7 for ... |
27 May 2008
09:57 GMT |
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Windows has never been an epitome of security and alternatives - the open source Linux and Apple's Mac OS X are considered superior in this aspect. However, Windows Vista was built as an apex of security compared to its predecessors. Featuring examples of technology as the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption, and... |
27 May 2008
03:34 GMT |
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TinyMe, a PCLinuxOS-based Linux distribution, has reached its first stable release, 2008.0. TinyMe was created for older computers and for those of you who need a fast and lightweight desktop.TinyMe's ISO is 200 MB large, but don't be fooled by its small dimensions! It comes with all the tools you might wan... |
27 May 2008
00:06 GMT |
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Welcome to the Fedora Weekly Report! Last week came with a couple of interesting events from the Fedora world, such as the interview with Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader, the migration of Fedora Project's Wiki to a different platform, and a few security advisories for your favorite Linux distribution.On May ... |
26 May 2008
09:25 GMT |
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VMKnoppix, the former Xenoppix, has reached a new edition, 20080519. It is a Linux Live distribution based on Debian and KNOPPIX featuring an impressive collection of virtualization tools like Xen, KVM, Virtualbox, KQEMU and UserMode Linux.The new edition is based on KNOPPIX 5.3.1 and was released a few days ago, usi... |
26 May 2008
08:28 GMT |
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Linux might be adopted on a large scale by the Russian Post, as the institution has started testing Linux, in the view of using it in normal post offices. The main reason for moving to Linux is to reduce the costs. Although the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post has not disclosed this directly, the Post mi... |
26 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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