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Novell and Ingres have announced a new cooperative agreement under which the Ingres database is now available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program
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Mozilla has announced that it is officially discontinuing support for the 1.x branch of its SeaMonkey "all-in-one internet application suite", the successor to the old Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Application suites
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Attackers are attempting to take control of mail servers, in particular those running Postfix and SpamAssassin, by exploiting a security vulnerability in the SpamAssassin Milter plug-in
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Five years ago today, Google announced the launch of its Google Code project hosting site, which, today, hosts 800 of its own open source projects, including Android, Chrome, the Chrome OS and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
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Novell open source programmer Jonathan Pobst has released version 0.2 of his simple Pinta painting application for Gtk modelled after Paint.NET, adding a number of new features, including 5 new tools, 5 new adjustments and 5 new effects
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The next version of the Ruby scripting language has been rescheduled for release in mid August. The final release will be preceded by several previews and release candidates
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The Mozilla Foundation has launched a new Firefox Mobile competition for add-on developers aimed at encouraging them to create innovative and compatible mobile add-ons
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Following the success of last year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. Boards have announced that they have decided to once again co-locate their flagship conferences, Akademy and GUADEC, in 2011
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Microsoft has announced that it will be taking a more active role in the development of the open source jQuery JavaScript Library, including contributing code, such as a templating engine
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The current version of the commercial ZeuS botnet server software uses a licence management system to prevent pirate copying
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Open source Java framework specialist SpringSource has launched a new community portal for the Apache Tomcat open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies aimed at enterprise users
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Four years of collecting agreements from numerous contributors has allowed the Squeak Smalltalk environment to be re-licensed as MIT/Apache code
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Open source e-commerce software specialist Magento has announced that it has secured its first investment. According to the SEC regulatory filing, the company has received a cash injection of $22.5 million
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Mandriva has released its first major point update to version 5 of its Mandriva Enterprise Server commercial Linux distribution. According to the company, in addition to all of the previous updates, the latest update focuses on virtualisation and improves integration of Kernel-based Virtual Machine technology
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VMware invests in "NoSQL" databases in the cloud by hiring the lead developer of the open source Redis key/value database
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The Amarok Project developers have released version 2.3.0 of their popular open source music player for the KDE desktop, code named "Clear Light". In addition to the usual bug fixes, the latest update features a completely redesigned main toolbar and a rewritten file browser
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Fluendo has announced Fluendo Media Center, a €40 package which integrates the company's DVD player for Linux and other codecs into a single application.
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Mobile network operator Vodafone UK has confirmed that it will be releasing four new highly anticipated and top of the line Android-based smartphones, including the HTC Desire and Google's Nexus one, in the coming months
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Modular social networking gadget specifications now allow use beyond pure social networking applications, offering both a core and social set of data models, APIs and gadgets
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This year's EuroPython event will take place from the 17th to the 24th of July in Birmingham, UK and the conference organisers are currently seeking submissions from attendees for talks, papers and tutorials that cover all aspects of Python
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Red Hat has published the agenda for this year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World event taking place in Boston, Massachusetts from the 22nd to the 25th of June, 2010
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Criminals use various methods to camouflage the traces of their malicious software on the internet. However, their paths can be retraced using special tools to identify the vulnerability the malware exploited to enter a system
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The GeeXboX developers have released the second alpha of version 2.0 of their small embedded Linux distribution aimed at Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) and media centres, correcting a number of bugs from last month's first alpha and adding the latest Linux kernel
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Skype has announced that it has published the source code for its SILK audio codec, introduced last year, which the company uses in its internet telephony applications for Windows and Mac OS X
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Two fix-it tools from Microsoft help users set-up workarounds which prevent exploitation of a critical security vulnerability in Internet Explorer
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Security vulnerability in SpamAssassin filter module
Tracking down malware
