Chrome reaches second birthday, version 6 goes stable
When Google launched its Chrome Web browser in 2008, it was clear that the product had considerable potential. Its emphasis on performance and a its intriguing minimalistic user interface attracted a lot of well-deserved attention. read more
SUSE Linux Enterprise for VMware
VMware and Novell have announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware, building on the companies' expanded partnership announced earlier in June of this year...
Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released
Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages...
ApacheCon NA 2010 registration opens
The Apache Software Foundation has announced that registration is now open for this year's ApacheCon North America conference taking place from the 1st to the 5th of November in Atlanta, Georgia...
You can make money with open source. Literally.
This is an old story--two years old, to be specific. But it was new to me when I heard it at LinuxCon, and it was new to a lot of others in the room too. And it was a great story, so I wanted to share it further. In 2008,...
Tab tweaks land in Chrome Canary
Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore.
Who Contributed The Most During X Server 1.9?
Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9 and related X...
Feature: Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system
Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. read more
Tutorial: Best Practices with sudo on Linux
Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.
Dell Studio 1747 Laptop: One Fatal Flaw Away from Linux Perfection
Dell's 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw.
Global struggle over software patents
It is common currency in open source to say that patents are an American problem.That’s not true. Software patents, or patents on what is expressed in software, are a global problem.(Picture from our Apple Core blog, co-starring Jason O’Grady and David Morganstern. read more
How IBM hopes to make the cloud proprietary
Asia Dent (right) must be the most famous face in Poughkeepsie today.She was photographed by IBM PR recently putting a probe to a new 5.2 GHz chip that is at the heart of the company’s new zEnterprise mainframe, shipping next week.Florian Mueller calls this the most dangerous product announcement of the century. read more
Gnu/Linux: Finally, it's really free software
Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. read more
Free & Open Source Software in the Developing World Part 2/5
Free & Open Source Software in the Developing World Part 2/5 Jon "maddog" Hall's talk about Free & Open Source Software in the Developing World at the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2010 (www.froscon.de) in Germany, Sankt Augustin. For more talks go to www.froscon.tv From: caffeine81 Views: 7 0 ratings Time: 15:00 More in Science & Technology
Chrome August's big winner as Internet Explorer resumes slide
As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted. Internet Explorer has not managed to gain share for a third month in a row. Firefox is leveling out while Chrome and Safari continue to grow. Opera? read more
Unigine Announces Its OilRush Game For Linux
Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...
IBM ships 5.2GHz chip, its fastest yet
A chip in IBM's new zEnterprise System clocks in at 5.2GHz. The fastest IBM microprocessor to date is targeted at mainframes. It packs in four cores, plus a respectable helping of DRAM.
2010 Linux Graphics Survey
For the past three years we have hosted an annual Linux Graphics Survey in which we ask tens of thousands of users each time their video card preferences, driver information, and other questions about their view of the Linux graphics stack. This year we are hosting the survey once again...
Archos releases five budget Android tablets
French vendor Archos is set on Android: At the IFA consumer electronics fair, the company presents a total of five mobile devices with Google's operating system - from a pocket model up to a 10.1-inch tablet PC...
Version 4 of Plone CMS released
The developers have released the final new version of the Python and Zope-based CMS. Among the advancements of Plone 4 are a new theme and an improved user and group management feature.
