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Chrome 19 released with tab syncing

Chrome logo The headline feature of the new stable chrome is tab synchronisation, but Google has also slipped in an experimental version of Web Intents more »

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Booting up: Tools and tips for systemd

Booting up: Tools and tips for systemd These days, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva and a few other distributions use the systemd init tool for system starts. It includes its own tools for configuration and diagnosis, and the tricks it needs when the system doesn't start are different from sysvinit's more »

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16 May 2012
Nagios fork Icinga 1.7 released

Icinga logo The update to the open source network monitoring software includes new options for customising the web frontend and the Classic UI, as well as performance improvements more »

16 May 2012
Firefox 14 beta for Android released

Firefox beta logo Mozilla has released a beta version of Firefox 14 for Android with native Android UI elements and the new "Awesome Screen". The new version also has plugin support and hardware acceleration more »

16 May 2012
Apache celebrates quarter of growth

Apache logo With a record 104 current top-level projects and 51 projects in the incubator, the Apache Software Foundation declares an "unprecedented" first quarter more »

16 May 2012
Kdenlive 0.9 improves effects workflow

Kdenlive logo Version 0.9 of the video editor includes a rewritten effect stack, a new automatic audio alignment function and various usability enhancements more »

16 May 2012
OpenMobile to let Android apps run on Tizen

OpenMobile logo Android apps could be run on the open source Tizen platform using OpenMobile's proprietary ACL (Application Compatibility Layer). The company has been showing running apps at conferences more »

16 May 2012
Ten years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat logo Red Hat is celebrating the fact that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now ten years old. The latest version of the product, RHEL 7, is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2013 more »

16 May 2012
Parted Magic gets optional firewall

Parted Magic logo Labelled "2012_05_14", the update to the Linux distribution for disk partitioning and data recovery has a new firewall for wired connections, an upgraded kernel, and a number of new and updated packages more »

16 May 2012
Oracle changes its mind about damages in Android case

Oracle vs Google icon With the patent phase of the lawsuit now handed over to the jury for a decision, Oracle once again moved for infringer's profits and then changed its mind. Meanwhile, Judge Alsup revealed that he had programmed before more »

16 May 2012
Alert!QuickTime for Windows update plugs security holes

QuickTime logo Version 7.7.2 of QuickTime for Windows addresses a total of 17 security vulnerabilities in the media player, all of which could be could exploited by an attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code on a victim's system more »

16 May 2012
Avira update fixes Service Pack bug

Avira logo Avira has fixed the problem in this week's Service Pack which resulted in the software blocking harmless processes. Affected users need to manually install an update to implement the fix more »

15 May 2012
NoSQL Document/Graph database OrientDB 1.0 released

After a year at release candidate stage, the OrientDB developers have published version 1.0 of their NoSQL Document/Graph database, now with an object persistence layer and multi-master replication more »

15 May 2012
Perian QuickTime component to perish

Perian logo The Perian project development team has announced that its popular open source QuickTime component will soon be retired, as development on the software comes to an end more »

15 May 2012
Linux lacking from Mozilla Marketplace launch

Mozilla logo A bug report on Mozilla's bug tracking system indicates that the organisation does not plan to support its web application store on Linux at launch. However, the problem is being worked on by members of the community more »

15 May 2012
FreeBSD 10 will be using Clang instead of GCC

FreeBSD logo The developers of FreeBSD have decided to switch from GCC to LLVM and Clang as the new default compiler for FreeBSD 10. The official kernels have already been compiled with Clang while the ports are still being worked on more »

15 May 2012
Alert!Avira AV update hangs systems - Update

Avira logo Avira's paid-for anti-virus software product is currently hanging users' computers and, in some cases, causing them not to boot. Users who have not yet installed the latest update should refrain from doing so more »

15 May 2012
Fraunhofer Institute finds security vulnerabilites in cloud storage services

Cloud icon The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology has tested the security of several cloud storage services. It identified security problems in several areas, including encryption and data protection more »

15 May 2012
MonoDevelop 3.0 arrives with better code completion

MonoDevelop logo C# code completion is greatly enhanced in the new release of the free software IDE for C# and other .NET languages. Mac developers get Mac App Store support and Android developers get a drag and drop UI builder more »

15 May 2012
Wine 1.5.4 adds OpenGL support to DIB engine

Wine logo The new development release of Wine adds a new resampler for Microsoft's DirectSound software component and introduces support for OpenGL in the Device Independent Bitmaps engine more »

15 May 2012
Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" is starting to take shape

Debian logo The Debian developers have released for testing the first alpha of the installer for Debian 7. New features include ARM architecture and WPA support and ext4 as the standard file system more »

15 May 2012
Flashback removal tool arrives for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Apple icon Even though the operating system is no longer officially supported, Apple has published a standalone Flashback malware removal tool for computers running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, as well as a Security Update that disables older versions of the Adobe Flash Player more »

15 May 2012
Mandriva community starts work on 2012 release

Mandriva logo In the absence of a decision from the distro's management, the Mandriva community has started unoffical work to prepare the next release. The draft includes plans for a recovery tool for boot failures and inclusion of Bumblebee more »

15 May 2012
Kickstarter security vulnerability exposes projects

Kickstarter logo A security vulnerability on crowd-funding platform Kickstarter means that outsiders have been able to access details of unpublished projects. Kickstarter has reassured project backers that their personal data has not been affected more »

15 May 2012
PostgreSQL 9.2 beta improves scalability, adds JSON

PostgreSQL logo A beta of version 9.2 of the open source PostgreSQL database has been released for testing with "major increases in performance and both vertical and horizontal scalability"; web developers will find native JSON support a welcome addition more »

14 May 2012
Zeta Components leaves the Apache Foundation

Apache Zeta Components logo After failing to gain traction with a community within the Apache Incubator, the PHP components library is leaving the umbrella of the ASF for a new project host: GitHub more »

14 May 2012
More than one billion VLC downloads

VLC logo VLC, the popular cross-platform, open source media player, has been downloaded more than one billion times since the project was transferred to the VideoLAN Organization in 2005 more »

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