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KDE SC 4.4 final arrives, KDE.org relaunched

KDE Logo The KDE project developers have announced the release of version 4.4 of the KDE Software Compilation, the latest stable release of the free open source K Desktop Environment. more »

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Android versus Linux?

Android vs Linux Is Android at odds with Linux after the removal of Android device drivers from the Linux source code tree or is this business as usual for the Linux community and nothing new? The H looks at the issues. more »

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9 February 2010
Pinta: Paint.NET clone for Linux and Mac OS X

Pinta Logo Novell open source hacker and developer Jonathan Pobst has released a simple, Mono-based panting application for Gtk, modeled after Paint.NET, called Pinta more »

9 February 2010
Novell and LPI announce Linux training and certification partnership

Novell Logo Novell and the Linux Professional Institute have announced a new international partnership aimed at standardising their entry-level Linux certification programs more »

9 February 2010
Debian 6.0 Squeeze behind schedule

Debian Logo 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 more »

9 February 2010
Dalvik Turbo offers speedier Android applications

Myriad logo 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 more »

9 February 2010
Security update for LANDesk Management Gateway

LANDesk logo 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 more »

9 February 2010
Terracotta and Eucalyptus announce partnership

Cloud Teaser 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 more »

9 February 2010
Adobe apologises for unpatched Flash vulnerability

Adobe Logo 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 more »

9 February 2010
Alert!Critical vulnerability in Novell's NetStorage

Novell Logo 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 more »

9 February 2010
EU security agency advises caution when using social networks

ENISA Logo 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" more »

9 February 2010
Apache Ant updated to 1.8

Apache Ant logo The 1.8 release sees big performance improvements in directory scanning for the popular Java build tool. more »

9 February 2010
GNOME Accessibility: Another Sun/Oracle casualty

GNOME accessibility logo Lay offs at Sun's Accessibility Program Office have left the GNOME accessibility (a11y) efforts "an unfunded mandate, doomed ultimately to fail" say contributors more »

8 February 2010
openSUSE 2010 survey begins

openSUSE Logo 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 more »

8 February 2010
ARCHOS publishes Linux distro for 5 and 7 series Internet Media Tablets

Archos logo 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 more »

8 February 2010
OpenOffice adoption: Germany leads while UK and US lag

OpenOffice Logo 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 more »

8 February 2010
China shuts down cracker website

Padlock icon 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 more »

8 February 2010
Alert!Vulnerability in Samba provides access to files

Samba Logo 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 more »

8 February 2010
TIOBE language index: Erlang, Scala and JavaFX Script near top 20

TIOBE Logo 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 more »

8 February 2010
OU announces Linux course

OU logo The Open University has announced 'Linux - an introduction' a ten week course on the open source operating system aimed at absolute beginners more »

8 February 2010
Confusion over Sun's Kenai hosting platform

Sun Oracle Logo 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 more »

8 February 2010
Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring Alpha 2 arrives

Mandriva Linux Logo 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 more »

8 February 2010
Infected add-ons found on Mozilla download site

Firefox logo Two malware infected 'experimental' add-ons have been available on the Mozilla download site for a prolonged period more »

8 February 2010
Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3.1 Alpha 1

Thunderbird Logo 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" more »

8 February 2010
SourceForge turns off "blanket blocking"

SourceForge Logo 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 more »

7 February 2010
Alert!Unscheduled patch from Oracle

A critical vulnerability in the WebLogic Server Node Manager has forced Oracle to release an unscheduled update outside of its normal quarterly patch cycle. more »

6 February 2010
The H Week - Browser de-anonymisation, FreeBSD, Linux updates and H.264

The H Week Logo 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 more »

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