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Linux kernel 2.6.27 was released last night by its father, Linus Torvalds - "So not a lot happened after -rc9, which is mostly good. I certainly don't want to have any upheavals at the end of an -rc series, although I wouldn't have minded more people looking at the regression list. That said, I think we... |
10 October 2008
02:11 GMT |
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The multifaceted race between the proprietary Windows operating system and the open source Linux platform doesn't always have a clear winner. According to a study commissioned to Vital Wave Consulting by Microsoft, Window and Linux are on par when it comes down to the large number of computer deployments in... |
26 September 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Word has it that Linux does not need its own Steve Jobs. Then again, why was this question posed in the first place? Because it's only obvious that whatever Jobs touches turns into gold. But who says anyone wants this happening to Linux? The two are simply “different.”An article outlining why "Linux ... |
24 September 2008
08:23 GMT |
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The Greater Columbus Convention Center will host this year's annual Ohio LinuxFest, which will take place on October 10-11. Now at its sixth edition, the Ohio LinuxFest will include a large expo and popular speakers, while welcoming free software developers, open source enthusiasts and virtually anyone who is in... |
22 September 2008
11:04 GMT |
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Google has just released a Linux software repository which greatly facilitates both the download and software updates for their applications. For now, only two of them have been introduced to this repository, but we expect to see more as soon as possible. There are graphical sets of instructions to make your computer... |
17 September 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Dubbed Luna Crescente and based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, OpenGEU 8.04.1 was announced a few days ago. The developers say that OpenGEU 8.04.1 has so many improvements that you will simply fall in love with it - "This is a very important day for our team and project, this release is a milestone indeed. In the latest Open... |
11 September 2008
08:10 GMT |
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The Linux Foundation's forces are growing stronger, as yesterday it was announced that a new member was joining in, for the enhancement of the popularity of Linux. Black Duck Software is now a Foundation ally, and will further aid in the common quest of maintaining a perpetual growth of Linux.The involvement of... |
11 September 2008
05:35 GMT |
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ParaScale, a startup based in Cupertino, California, announced the trial availability of its cloud storage system. As more and more people know, cloud storage refers to the fact that data is no longer kept on physical devices, but on the Internet.The company advertises the high security of its storage method, as cent... |
8 September 2008
11:26 GMT |
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According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS. The new drivers should become available sometime i... |
3 September 2008
11:40 GMT |
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Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux operating systems continue to erode the install base of Microsoft's proprietary platform. According to statistics made available by Net Applications, Windows accounted for a market share of no less than 93.06% back in August 2007. One year later, and all the availa... |
2 September 2008
10:47 GMT |
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A few days ago, the Kiwilinux team announced the release of the latest version of their Linux distribution. Kiwi 8.04 has some nice features, like the support for the Speedtouch USB ADSL modem, and also includes by default the necessary packages to play restricted video, audio and Flash formats.The software repositor... |
1 September 2008
04:05 GMT |
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The BLFS Development Team has recently announced the launch of BLFS 6.3 (Beyond Linux From Scratch) along with many new package additions, as well as updates and various adjustments. Among the highlights of this version are Gnome 2.18.3, KDE 3.5.9, Firefox 2.x and Pidgin.As we all know, BLFS 6.3 is the complement of ... |
26 August 2008
05:50 GMT |
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The Ubuntu Christian Edition Community is happy to announce the release of Ubuntu CE 4.0 (Christian Edition). Although it has been a rather long time since the last release, this version brings many new additions like the Gimp (for image and photo manipulation), GnomeOffice (which replaces OpenOffice), Inkscape, and ... |
26 August 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Although Fedora 10 is nearing its release date, The Fedora Unity Project has announced the availability of the latest ISO Re-Spins (DVD Sets) for Fedora 8.The Re-Spin ISOs are based on the official Fedora 8 installation media, with all the updates available since August 14, this year. They are compatible with i386, x... |
26 August 2008
03:40 GMT |
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The Zenwalk Team announced yesterday the stable release of Zenwalk 5.2 Gnome Edition. This version brings a number of features, such as the latest stable Gnome Desktop (2.22.3), together with impressive Zenwalk artwork and a familiar Zenwalk Desktop. Also featured in this release are the 2.6.25.4 Linux kernel, the la... |
25 August 2008
09:14 GMT |
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The latest ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released yesterday, and it brings various new features such as CrossFireX and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support. It also introduces ATIOverDrive to maximize the GPU's (Graphical Processing Unit) performance, although some caution is advised, as increasing its clocks above... |
21 August 2008
05:09 GMT |
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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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Ever since the release of OpenGEU 8.04 Beta a few days ago, I felt I needed to see for myself what it brought new and to take a closer look at the praised E17 Desktop shell. Combining the power and flexibility of Ubuntu and Gnome with the beauty of E17, OpenGEU 0.04 (Luna Crescente) aims to take the step forward in ... |
20 August 2008
06:39 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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