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Rock it - The first pre-release version of Fedora 13 arrives

Fedora Logo The alpha release already includes all the changes expected to find their way into the distribution, which is scheduled for a mid-May release. These include a new GNOME program for colour calibrating hardware and Linux kernel 2.6.33 more »

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Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.34 goes into testing

KL Logo Linus Torvalds has released the first RC of Linux 2.6.34 and completed the integration of the next version of the kernel's most important changes. Improvements include graphics drivers for recent Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new addition is the LogFS file system more »

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10 March 2010
Mozilla to update MPL license

Mozilla Logo The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the 10 year old Mozilla Public License (MPL) more »

10 March 2010
Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for GPU computing

YDEL Logo The Fixstars Corporation, which specialises in software for the Cell processors, has announced the release of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) 6.2 for CUDA, the first enterprise Linux OS optimised for GPU computing more »

10 March 2010
Vodafone sold an Android smartphone infected with Mariposa

Android Logo Vodafone Spain sold a HTC Magic Android smartphone which had the Mariposa bot installed on its memory card more »

10 March 2010
Mozilla announces first Jetpack SDK milestone

Jetpack Logo The Mozilla Labs developers have announced the availability of the first milestone for the Jetpack SDK, which will "replace the Jetpack 0.8 prototype over the coming months" more »

10 March 2010
Twitter to detect, intercept and prevent bad links

Twitter Logo Twitter has announced that it is launching a new service to protect its users against phishing and other attacks by attempting to detect, intercept and prevent "bad links" before a user has a chance to click on them more »

10 March 2010
Alert!Attacks on newly discovered vulnerability in IE 6 and 7

Microsoft Logo Microsoft warns of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, which is already being actively exploited in targeted attacks to infect Windows PCs with a Trojan more »

10 March 2010
BSI to open source Scout framework

BSI Logo In May, Swiss company Business Systems Integration AG (BSI) will release its Scout business application framework to the open source community. A first look at the Scout project's source code will be available to attendees at this year's EclipseCon more »

10 March 2010
Linux Foundation launches Linux.com Store

LF Logo The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of a new Linux.com online store that features a number of “geek culture" related items, including T-shirts, mugs, hats and stickers more »

10 March 2010
Password cracker 100 times faster with an SSD

Padlock Broken Teaser The security specialist Objectif Sécurité has optimised its rainbow tables - a common tool used to crack password hashes - to make use of SSDs more »

10 March 2010
Alert!Microsoft closes seven holes in Excel

Microsoft Logo Microsoft has released two security updates to close one hole in Windows Movie Maker and seven holes in Excel more »

9 March 2010
Linux 2.6.34 development marches on

KL Logo Having closed the merge window, Linus Torvalds has announced the first preview release of the upcoming Linux kernel 2.6.34 more »

9 March 2010
FeatureHappenings: FOSS at CeBIT 2010

CeBIT Logo The H attended this year's CeBIT trade show on the world's largest fairground in Hannover, Germany and met up with a wide variety of people from the open source community, including free and open source software (FOSS) developers, project members and companies more »

9 March 2010
Researchers show infecting smartphones with malware is relatively easy

Mobile At the RSA conference, two security specialists presented the results of an investigation into how easy it is to inject a malicious program into thousands of Android smartphones and jail-broken iPhones more »

9 March 2010
OpenSSH 5.4 couples standard local input with server ports

OpenSSH Logo As well as a range of bug fixes, OpenSSH 5.4 includes a netcat mode which couples a local system's standard input to another computer's network port. There are also enhancements to the SFTP subsystem more »

9 March 2010
Android NDK with OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Android Logo Google's Android Native Development Kit r3 supports the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard, allowing vertex and fragment shader programs to be used, for instance, for developing 3D games for Android devices more »

9 March 2010
Alert!Update for Apache 2.2 web server closes various security holes

Apache Feather Version 2.2.15 fixes numerous bugs and closes three security holes. One of the holes is rated critical but only affects the Windows version of Apache more »

9 March 2010
KDE a resource hog?

KDE SC Logo Phoronix finds that power and memory consumption tests for the four major Linux desktop environments show that KDE SC 4.4.1 uses the most memory and has the highest power consumption more »

9 March 2010
Mylyn Eclipse project upgraded

Mylyn logo The interface technology for integrating task and ALM tools into Eclipse will incorporate four sub-projects dealing with various facets of IDE and ALM integration more »

9 March 2010
PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 released

PCLinuxOS Logo The PCLinuxOS developers have released the first beta for the 2010 edition of their Linux distribution, improving LiveCD boot time by 50% more »

9 March 2010
Appcelerator Titanium 1.0 arrives

Appcelerator Logo The Appcelerator Inc developers have released version 1.0 of their Appcelerator Titanium application framework and runtime platform, upgrading its mobile processing engine and improving load times to under 3 seconds more »

9 March 2010
Sun's Open Source chief leaves Oracle

Sun/Oracle logo Simon Phipps joins a number of Sun employees who have left the company since its acquisition by Oracle more »

8 March 2010
ZigBee: attack of the killer bees

ZigBee logo KillerBee is a collection of open source Linux tools for testing the security of ZigBee wireless networks more »

8 March 2010
Elive 2.0 LiveCD Linux distribution released

Elive logo Elive is a Debian GNU / Linux based LiveCD distribution that can be run from CD or installed on a USB stick or hard drive and is designed to minimise the required hardware resources more »

8 March 2010
FeatureKernel Log: Stable kernels analysed, Linux without firmware, new graphics drivers

The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements more »

8 March 2010
Application development for Android using MIPS tools

Android Logo Free tools for developing Android applications include a port of the QEMU processor emulator, Arriba Java development tools for QEMU and compilers and GUIs for Android’s Native Development Kit more »

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