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Novell open source hacker and developer Jonathan Pobst has released a simple, Mono-based panting application for Gtk, modeled after Paint.NET, called Pinta
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Novell and the Linux Professional Institute have announced a new international partnership aimed at standardising their entry-level Linux certification programs
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Too many release-critical bugs and too few active developers are causing development of Debian 6.0, aka Squeeze, to fall behind the release schedule
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week Swiss company Myriad AG will show Dalvik Turbo, a virtual machine for Android which is claimed to be up to three times faster than Dalvik
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An error in the web interface of the LANDesk Management Gateway can be used by an attacker to create their own commands and pass them to the shell of the underlying system to be run with root privileges
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Terracotta and Eucalyptus Systems, both open source start-ups, have announced a new joint partnership aimed providing enterprises with a solution to maximize their data scalability and application performance in a private cloud environment
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Adobe has taken the bull by the horns and officially apologised for not fixing a flaw in the Flash plug-in which has been known since 2008. The delay was said to be caused by internal procedural problems
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Novell is reporting a critical security vulnerability in NetStorage which can be exploited by a remote attacker to compromise a system. A patch is available to fix the vulnerability
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The European Network and Information Security Agency has published a report that warns of the risks and threats of using mobile social networking services and also provides a list of "17 golden rules for mobile social networks"
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The 1.8 release sees big performance improvements in directory scanning for the popular Java build tool.
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Lay offs at Sun's Accessibility Program Office have left the GNOME accessibility (a11y) efforts "an unfunded mandate, doomed ultimately to fail" say contributors
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The openSUSE project developers have announced the start of their 2010 survey to gather feedback about the distribution, the tools environment and the project in general
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ARCHOS has published Special Developer Edition firmware based on a customised embedded build of Ångström Linux that allows developers to easily install a complete Linux distribution onto its 5 and 7-series Internet Tablets
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According to a survey of more than two hundred thousand international visitors by a German IT service provider, OpenOffice's market share varies widely from country to country
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The Chinese authorities have shut down what they describe as the biggest training website for hackers in China. Members are reported to have used their skills to obtain private access data for games and other entertainment website
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A vulnerability in the creation of symbolic links can be exploited to get access to files outside of allowed paths. The hole can, however, only be exploited if the attacker has write access on a share
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The February issue of the TIOBE Programming Community Index shows that Apple's Objective-C and Google's Go are gaining popularity and notes that Scratch, Scala, Erlang and JavaFX Script could potentially break into the top 20 as early as next month
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The Open University has announced 'Linux - an introduction' a ten week course on the open source operating system aimed at absolute beginners
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Following recent announcements of the demise of Kenai, it appears that the project does have a future ahead of it after all, as a collaborative infrastructure for administering the java.net Java community
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The Mandriva developers have released the the second alpha of what will become Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring, updating the desktop components and a number of the included third-party packages
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Two malware infected 'experimental' add-ons have been available on the Mozilla download site for a prolonged period
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The Mozilla developers have released the first alpha for version 3.1 of their popular open source Thunderbird email and news client, code named "Lanikai"
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SourceForge has made the blanket block for countries on the US export control list into a selectable option, allowing project owners to decide if their project is subject to controls
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A critical vulnerability in the WebLogic Server Node Manager has forced Oracle to release an unscheduled update outside of its normal quarterly patch cycle.
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This week, The H had the latest news on how, even without cookies, web browsers and users can be identified, the latest Linux kernel developments with the Kernel Log, yet another vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser and
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Critical vulnerability in Novell's NetStorage
