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| CentOS 5.2 i386 LiveCD Launched |  | 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 L ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 09:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gibraltar Firewall 2.6 Launched |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LinuxConsole 1.0.2008 Announced by Yann Le Doaré |  | 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 patched with squashfs and aufs.
As de ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 10:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MontaVista CGE Linux 5.0 Compliant with the Linux Foundation's CGL 4.0 Specification |  | 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 cert ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 08:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Wins Another Small Battle over Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux |  | 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 counting games has been indisputably won by Windows, by Windows Vista, in fact. But the Windows operating system has also won[A ... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2008, 10:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Linux Kernel 2.6.26 Released |  | 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's been ... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2008, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista Is Superior to Leopard, XP, Linux, and All of Open Source |  | 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, to all distributions of Linux, and to the entire environment of open source solutions, in terms of security. Micro ... [read more >>] | | 11 July 2008, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GoblinX Standard 2.7 Just Launched |  | 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 s ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2008, 10:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Final Release of Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Is Now Available |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 07 July 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Linux and Mac OS X Eat Away at Windows, Even with XP SP3 and Vista SP1 |  | 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, Windows has passes the 1 billion milestone in terms of its global audience. And while Microsoft is indeed gunning for the next ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sabayon 3.5 "Ibex Poacher" Launched |  | 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) suppo ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Linspire Acquired by Xandros |  | 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 sales will still have th ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Market Share Smackdown: Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% |  | 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 terms of its install base. In one area, the tables are completely turned around and Linux enjoys supremacy while Win ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 07:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Neo Freerunner Finally On Sale, Starting July |  | 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 hardware problems. Well, now everything's fixed and the Linux smartphone can already be pre-ordered. The suggested retail pr ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola A810 and A1600 Are Official |  | 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, A810 and A1600 appeared together with A1800 (of which we've already ... [read more >>] | | 24 June 2008, 08:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| openSUSE 11.0 Is Here |  | 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.
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| Zenwalk Live 5.2 Available Now |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 19 June 2008, 04:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First Look at Firefox 3.0 for Linux |  | 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 all ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Technology Alignment Released Pioneer Linux 3.2 |  | 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. ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox 3.0 Final Available for Download Right Here |  | 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. Although the official release of Firefox 3.0 is still a few hours away, the downloads for the next iteration of the Fire ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rack-Soft Launches VoIP Plesk Module for Integrated Hosting and VoIP Services |  | 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-Soft's ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 10:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fedora Weekly Report: 9th - 15th June, 2008 |  | 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-an ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 09:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Greenie Linux 3.0.2H Released |  | 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 received some aesthetic improvements.
... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9.3 Now Available |  | 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 on your computer.
... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ArtistX 0.5 - A Complete Multimedia Studio on a Live DVD |  | 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 more eye-candy.
A ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 14 Things that Microsoft Needs to Do with Windows 7 |  | 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 audio subsystems. Pieces of the Windows 7 puzzle are indeed starting to come together, and a more consistent perspective will b ... [read more >>] | | 14 June 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Myah OS 3.0 Box Announced by Jeremiah Cheatham |  | 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 version of Myah OS, Mouse Pro ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2008, 09:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Matteo Garofano Announced Voltalinux 2.1 |  | 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 FTP in ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 09:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Remote Connection to WHM |  | 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 related to web hosting. The profit earned is not shared with the company that sells the reseller hosting packages. ... [read more >>] | | 09 June 2008, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Have Failed to Break the Market's Windows Fatigue |  | 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 2 for Windows XP back in 2004. Since then, it has been all down hill for the Redmond giant. Sure, the slope is by no means s ... [read more >>] | | 07 June 2008, 07:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Linux Cannot Connect to Vista SP1 over Cryptographic Security Services |  | 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 between the platforms, in scenarios where the connection is initiated from the machine powered by the open source operating sys ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 12:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GNOME 2.22.2 Released |  | 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 f ... [read more >>] | | 29 May 2008, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NVidia 173.14.05 Display Driver Brings Support for X.Org 1.5 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 29 May 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Elive 1.7.5 Now Available |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| SystemRescueCd 1.0.3 Brings Full NTFS Read-Write Support |  | 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 was replaced ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cheap Websites in Three Rapid Steps For Beginners |  | 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 scope must be clearly established. First, you must acquire a domain name and select a web hosting service. It i ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 11:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD Released |  | 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 improved stability and performance. It is designed to offer a modern system on AMD64 and EM64T architectures, w ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 09:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft: How to Hack Vista via Linux in Just a Few Minutes |  | 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 a revamped architecture for safeguarding sensitive user data including account passwords, Vista is certainly desig ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First Stable Release of TinyMe Was Launched |  | 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 y ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 00:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fedora Weekly Report: 19th - 25th May, 2008 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 09:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| VMKnoppix 20080519 Now Available |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 08:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Russian Post Migrates to Linux |  | 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 [ADM ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia to Use Linux on Cellphones |  | Nokia, one of the top companies on the mobile market, might create some new Linux-based, Internet-focused devices, as the interest in such appliances is growing, Reuters is reporting. Although Linux is not widely used on cellphones, the situation is beginning to ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Run Native Linux Applications in Windows Vista |  | Binaries tailored specifically to the open source Linux operating system can coexist on the same desktop with Windows Vista and Windows XP programs via Ulteo Virtual Desktop. Essentially, the promise of the Ulteo Virtual Desktop is to deliver Linux applications on Windows via the Ulteo panel. The virtualized environment will permit end users to run native Linux solutions right on the Windows Vista desktop, and integration complet ... [read more >>] | | 23 May 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Musix GNU/Linux 1.0R4 Released |  | The fourth revision of Musix GNU/Linux was announced by Marcos Guglielmetti, and it contains a large set of applications for artists. It is made up of only free software that are intended for music production, audio and video editing, graphic design and much more.
The Musix GNU/Linux 1.0 R4 edition is based on t ... [read more >>] | | 23 May 2008, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A New Eee PC-Like Ultra Portable Is Available |  | When ASUSTeK released their first Eee PC, the portable computer market had never seen such a product. Aimed to provide users with a product that was both affordable and equipped with a decent number of features, the Eee PC has had some considerable success. Other manufacturers have taken Asus' product as a model and then released their own version of the Eee PC. One such company is Hong Kong-based Bestlink, which has recentl ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubuntu 8.04 Release Party Spot in Berlin Metro System |  | If you are living in Berlin, Germany and using the subway, you probably haven't missed the advertisement that was present in all the vehicles on more than 3,700 displays, announcing the release party for Ubuntu 8.04, that took place in the German city.
The release party took place on ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.8 Launched |  | Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.8, a Linux distribution that's based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, was launched with the codename "Harty Hotrod". This release is built manually, without the help of the "Reconstructor" application that was used for the previous versions of Ultimate Edition.
This Linux dist ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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