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Last year when several HP TouchPads were shipped with Google’s Android platform on board, everyone thought it’s a mistake, or a miracle.
Although HP said it had nothing to do with the Android build development and the port of the ROM on its TouchPad tablet. In the end it turned out that the company knew... |
8 February 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Microsoft released a number of seven security bulletins for January 2012 that address vulnerabilities found in Windows Media, Windows ClickOnce application installer, Windows Object Packager, the operating system’s Kernel, and the now famous SSL/TLS protocol weakness dubbed BEAST. The vulnerability in the SSL ... |
11 January 2012
02:56 GMT |
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Wary Puppy, a build of Puppy Linux that targets older hardware, has just received a major update, according to the developers. The biggest news is that all the base packages were recompiled in T2 and certain choices were made with the plan of seamless upgrading from X.Org 7.3 to 7.6. It doesn't mean that W... |
14 October 2011
10:55 GMT |
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Ubuntu Studio, a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, has had a troubled development cycle, but it still reached version 11.10, along with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, and Mythbuntu. Ubuntu Studio 11.10 is the tenth release, but to get here it had some development problems as it suffered an a... |
14 October 2011
10:13 GMT |
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HTC ThunderBolt, the first 4G LTE-based smartphone to come to Verizon Wireless' airwaves with Google's Android operating system on board, has just been overclocked to 1.8GHz.The new clock speed enabled the mobile phone to score an impressive 3047 Quadrant Benchmark result, which is more than double when co... |
31 March 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Eariler today, January 5th, none other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, proudly announced the release of Linux kernel 2.6.37.Among the new features includes in Linux kernel 2.6.37 we can mention support for PPP over the IPv4 protocol, lots of enhancements to various important file systems, such as EXT4, XFS ... |
5 January 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC has just released the kernel source code and binaries for T-Mobile's T-Mobile myTouch 4G smartphone. The device adds to a longer list of available source codes released by HTC at the beginning of November for smartphones such as T-Mobile G2, HTC Desire Z and Droid Incredible.Th... |
18 November 2010
09:11 GMT |
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A recent study conducted by analysis group Coverity reveals that Google's open source Linux-based Android OS suffers from programming flaws that may allow third-party applications unwanted access to users' email or other sensitive information.The study is based on an analysis made on the Android kernel that... |
2 November 2010
06:18 GMT |
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Last evening, October 21st, none other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, proudly announced the release of Linux kernel 2.6.36.Linux kernel 2.6.36 includes support for a new filesystem notification interface called fanotify, the Tilera architecture, workqueues optimizations for concurrency, support for the Int... |
21 October 2010
02:26 GMT |
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Windows operating systems are in essence evolving from one release to another, with some pieces of code surviving across multiple iterations of the platform. It is the case of the BIOS calls in the Virtual-8086 mode monitor code which was introduced in Windows NT 3.1, released in 1993 and that survived until this day... |
21 January 2010
09:22 GMT |
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An InsanelyMac forum member has developed a replacement kernel for installation on Atom-equipped hackintosh netbooks, TUAW reports. Going by the screen name of teateam, the guy offers a download and urges fellow forum members to test his patch. Most of those running OS X Snow Leopard on hacked laptops say the patch i... |
20 November 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Developer Markus Winter has released a new version of his startup mode tool for Mac OS X, 32- or 64-bit Kernel Startup Mode Selector. Version 1.3.3 adds info for MacBookPro5.4, an improved feedback window, and resolves an issue when no boot mode was set. The Mac OS X 32-64-bit Kernel Startup Mode Selector shows whet... |
8 September 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Developer Markus Winter has released a new version of his startup mode tool for Mac OS X, 32- or 64-bit Kernel Startup Mode Selector 1.3. The new release adds four key improvements. Mac OS X 10.6 32-64-Bit Kernel Startup Mode Selector is free to download and use, but donations are highly encouraged. Mac OS X 10.6 32... |
7 September 2009
08:07 GMT |
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With the continuous evolution in both software and hardware, many users are looking for the best products that work well together an yield top-grade performance. Once all the pieces are in place, the only thing that's left to do is to assess their functioning, to see if any on them supports and needs any improve... |
28 January 2009
12:01 GMT |
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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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Just in case you were holding your breath for a new Windows 7 kernel, you might as well exhale. Microsoft has infirmed speculations that the successor of Windows Vista would deliver a new kernel. Rather than revolutionary, the core of Windows 7 will be evolutionary building on the heart of Vista. One of the biggest a... |
27 May 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Microsoft did officially confirm Windows 7's delivery in 2010, but additional details on the next version of the Windows operating system are scarce to say the least, as the project is built under the watchful eye of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. In 2007, one... |
1 April 2008
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Microsoft is simply spoiling its users when it comes down to the evolution of the core of the Windows client. Both the first service pack to the latest Windows operating system available on the market and the next iteration of the Windows platform come with new kernels. Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing on Febr... |
20 March 2008
11:52 GMT |
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The core of all Linux distributions, the Linux kernel version 2.6.25 RC1 and 2.6.24.2 was released. The 2.6.25 RC1 is a development release, and it is much larger than its predecessors.The development edition, 2.6.25 RC1, is almost 11MB large, and has 1.4 millions lines of diffs. Most of the changes are located in th... |
11 February 2008
09:13 GMT |
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The core of Windows is in a process of perpetual evolution, as an integer part of the growth of the operating system itself. Of course that the core of the operating system is a reference pointing to the kernel, the central unit of the platform providing low-level functions. And as Microsoft prepares to deliver the t... |
11 January 2008
12:35 GMT |
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Applause and criticism of Windows are nothing more than collateral products inherent with the success and ubiquity of the product on the operating system market. According to Larry Osterman, Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer, some of the negative input associated with the Windows platform point to the ab... |
9 November 2007
12:14 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds has announced last night the immediate availability of the second release candidate of Linux kernel 2.6.24 series: "Yeah, don't remind me - it's late. There was nothing in particular holding this thing up, I basically just forgot to cut a -rc2 release last week."This release contains some arc... |
7 November 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds has announced last night the immediate availability of the first release candidate of Linux kernel 2.6.24 series: "This may count as one of the biggest -rc releases ever. It's humongous. Usually the compressed -rc1 diffs are in the 3-5MB range, with occasional smaller ones, and the occasional ones... |
24 October 2007
07:22 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday the immediate availability of the 2.6.23 Linux kernel. This new release contains some tiny architecture changes for sparc64, mips and blackfin, some VFS/VM fixes, some networking fixes and miscellaneous driver fixes:"Finally. Yeah, it got delayed, not because of any huge issues, but... |
10 October 2007
02:39 GMT |
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The 2.6.22.7 version from the 2.6 stable Linux kernel branch was released a couple of days ago and the 2.4.35.3 version of the 2.4 stable kernel branch was announced last night. Both versions of the Linux kernel contain an important security bugfix for the AMD64/EM64T architecture, which can lead to a local privilege... |
24 September 2007
04:46 GMT |
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Two of the things the Linux community most desires are drivers and easy access to those drivers. The first one is happening and the other one will be on its way to accomplishment, thanks to Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS), a Linux project started by Dell.Dynamic Kernel Module Support is designed to create a fram... |
24 September 2007
02:57 GMT |
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They've done it. Modders have finally cracked the Xbox 360's kernell, allowing the machine to be downgraded and implicitly run a broader range of software, which the Xbox 360 would otherwise spit out. According to Xbox360Fanboy (via Engadget.com), it's not very easy to do, but damn tempting. There is a... |
27 August 2007
10:38 GMT |
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The 2.6.22.4 version from the 2.6 stable Linux kernel branch was released last night and it fixes an important vulnerability that allowed an unprivileged local user to send arbitrary signals to a child process despite security restrictions:"This fixes a vulnerability in the "parent process death signal" implementatio... |
21 August 2007
05:47 GMT |
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The 2.6.22.3 version from the 2.6 stable Linux kernel branch was released last night along with the 2.4.35.1 version of the 2.4 stable kernel branch. The 2.6.22.3 release contains some bugfixes and new power saving functions for laptop users:"This release has a few bugfixes so all users of the 2.6.22 series are encou... |
16 August 2007
05:34 GMT |
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We are now at the prologue of the 64-bit Windows Vista kernel onslaught saga. And Microsoft is facing hard time ahead with the mandatory driver signing security mitigation introduced into the x64 editions of its latest operating system. Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Labs in her recent session at Black Hat... |
9 August 2007
07:24 GMT |
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After approximately 6 months of hard work, Willy Tarreau announced the availability of the 2.4.35 Linux kernel. One year ago, Willy Tarreau became the 2.4 branch maintainer and this is his second stable 2.4 kernel release: "I'm very conscious that 2.4 has mostly left desktop PCs and notebooks, but it's sti... |
27 July 2007
06:50 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced last night the immediate availability of the 2.6.22 Linux kernel. This new release contains some tiny architecture changes (ppc, mips, blackfin), miscellaneous driver fixes:"Not a whole lot of changes since -rc7: some small architecture changes (ppc, mips, blackfin), and most of those are de... |
9 July 2007
02:18 GMT |
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The 9th edition of the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) started yesterday with Jonathan Corbet's Linux Kernel Report and a reception organized by Intel to present their forthcoming products. After saying a few words over the Linux kernel's history and its releasing cycle, Corbet mentioned that now the kernel e... |
29 June 2007
11:03 GMT |
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Unlike others who've wasted time doing nothing, Mr. Linus Torvalds has actually done some pretty good work lately. Therefore, before the promptitude proven on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) by taking part in all the interesting threads related to the Linux kernel and the forthcoming GPLv3, Linus has also s... |
18 June 2007
10:26 GMT |
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On the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LMKL) some interesting posts related to the GPL v2 and 3 licenses have been recently made by Linus Torvalds. The famous Linux developer mainly voices against FSF's GPLv3, which - according to him - features an anti-DRM language and also takes in some slippery words which do not ... |
14 June 2007
10:54 GMT |
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The encryption technology integrated into Windows Vista delivers no line of defense against attacks directed at the operating system's core. During the Black Hat 2007 hacker conference in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas at the end of July, security researchers Joanna Rutkowska and Alexander Tereshkin will be taking th... |
21 May 2007
05:19 GMT |
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After conquering the personal computers of thousands of users, Linux went further and now it claims its rights in the embedded computer modules field. Eliabs company, based in Bangalore, India has recently unveiled its new offer: a chip-like embedded computer module called LinSeed that comes with Linux 2.6.19 pre-in... |
4 May 2007
05:49 GMT |
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After two and a half months from the last release, Linus Torvalds has just announced today the final and stable release of the Linux kernel, version 2.6.21. The biggest change in 2.6.21 is all the timer changes to support a tickless system:"If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for... |
26 April 2007
16:24 GMT |
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Vbootkit is a rootkit designed to load into Windows Vista's kernel from custom boot sectors. Its authors, security researchers Nitin Kumar and Vipin Kumar claim that this is the first example of such technology. The Vbootkit's creators describe their rootkit as a back door, or a shortcut to access the Windo... |
26 April 2007
11:28 GMT |
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Matt Mackall has recently released at the Embedded Linux Conference, a set of patches that improves the way memory usage information is made available. The memory usage process on Linux is complicated and it deals with many direct or indirect factors. The most commonly used tool to get a memory usage report is the p... |
25 April 2007
06:44 GMT |
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Igno Molnar, Linux kernel developer since 1995, announces the first release of a new patchset to fix the bugs and malfunctions from the vanilla scheduler regarding the desktop and server scheduling workloads. The patchset, named "Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler Patchset" by its developer, is act... |
24 April 2007
07:12 GMT |
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Security Implications of Microsoft Windows Vista is a white paper published by Symantec, presenting the conclusion of an evaluation of the latest operating system from Microsoft. "The paper is designed for technical managers and other IT professionals who want to understand the effectiveness of Windows Vista's n... |
2 March 2007
06:54 GMT |
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