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Google Gears to grind to halt

Google gears logo Google will wind down the database and geolocation plug-in and focus efforts on HTML5 which now incorporates these features more…

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Interstellar overdrive - Linux and astronomy

Celestia image of the Earth Hardware and software for the amateur astronomer are now readily available. It is easily possible to put together a CCD powered telescope that is more than adequate for hunting comets or prospecting for asteroids. Both are very popular pastimes and the optical hardware can be augmented by a substantial range of free software to process the raw images and guide amateur astronomers on where to look and what to see. more…

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2 December 2009
Spring Framework 3.0 RC3 released

SpringSource logo The third release candidate for what will become version 3.0 of the Spring Framework has been released and includes "several enhancements" more…

2 December 2009
OXtender: Open-Xchange Thunderbird connector

OXtender logo The OXtender for Thunderbird Add-on for the email client allows users to access calendar features on an Open-Xchange server more…

2 December 2009
Concurrent RedHawk Embedded real-time Linux version 5.4 released

Red hawk logo The new version of RedHawk Embedded Linux, Concurrent's Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based real-time Linux, now supports Nehalem and Opteron systems with up to 48 cores more…

2 December 2009
Web VPN solutions circumvent browser security model

US-CERT has stated that clientless SSL VPN products from various vendors circumvent browser same origin policies, allowing theft of cookies and access data more…

1 December 2009
Double helping of PHP framework Symfony

Symfony logo Two versions, 1.3 and 1.4, of popular PHP framework Symfony have been released, differing only in that functions marked as deprecated in earlier versions have been removed from 1.4 more…

1 December 2009
OpenLogic offers CentOS Linux support for enterprises

OpenLogic logo OpenLogic have announced that they are expanding their commercial support services for open source packages to include CentOS Linux more…

1 December 2009
Mozilla announce Extend Firefox winners

Firefox logo FireFound, Multifox and Voyage won in Best New Add-ons category, while Smart Find, Book Burro and Speed Dial took Best Updated Add-on top spot more…

1 December 2009
Trojan demands money for internet access

A new Windows trojan blocks internet access until the user enters an activation code, obtained by sending an SMS containing a specific number to a premium rate phone number more…

1 December 2009
Qt 4.6.0 cross platform C++ user interface framework now available

Qt logo Following on from the beta released at the Qt Developer Days, the final version of the LGPL licensed cross platform Qt 4.6.0 user interface framework has been released more…

1 December 2009
Alert!Root exploit for FreeBSD

FreeBBSD logo A flaw in the run-time link editor can be exploited to start arbitrary programs at root privilege level. A patch has been made available, but has not been fully tested yet more…

1 December 2009
Google's Chrome gets improved performance analysis tools

Chrome logo Google has added a heap profiler for JavaScript and a comprehensive timeline view to the developer tools built into Google Chrome more…

1 December 2009
FreeBSD based firewall m0n0wall 1.3 final released

m0n0wall logo m0n0wall 1.3 final has been released after three years in beta, adding IPv6 support and moving to a FreeBSD 6.4 base more…

1 December 2009
GNOME's GUADEC conference to be in The Hague in 2010

GNOME logo Next year, the GNOME community will gather in The Hague between July 24th and 30th for the annual GUADEC conference more…

30 November 2009
Lost+Found: Nmap, WordPress, Clouds and Employees

Lost+Found logo Too short for news, too good to lose; lost+found is a round up of useful security information. Today, Nmap, WordPress, Clouds and Employees more…

30 November 2009
Typo3 4.3 released

Typo3 logo The Typo3 Association has released version 4.3 of the open source content management system. The developers highlight the new Frontend Editing module and the Extbase extension, which allows users to produce projects compatible with the forthcoming version 5 more…

30 November 2009
VirtualBox 3.1.0 arrives, adds teleportation support

VirtualBox logo Sun Microsystems has released version 3.1.0 of its open source VirtualBox desktop virtualisation application for x86 hardware. The major update introduces teleportation, branched snapshots and 2D video acceleration for Windows guests more…

30 November 2009
Insufficient access protection in Avira's enterprise solution

Avira logo The Internet Update Manager for assigning signatures and updating products has no functional protection for network management access. This potentially allows attackers to cripple the scanners on client PCs more…

30 November 2009
Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 includes minor bug fixes

Ruby on Rails logo The new release of the web framework is compatible with earlier 2.3.x versions and fixes various bugs, including an XSS problem in strip_tags more…

30 November 2009
Groovy 1.6.6 and 1.7 RC1 released

Groovy logo The Groovy development team have simultaneously released version 1.6.6 of Groovy, the latest stable release of the dynamic scripting language, and RC1 of Groovy 1.7 more…

30 November 2009
Dell posts customised Chromium OS for Mini 10v netbook

Chromium logo Dell has posted a customised USB image of Google's Chromium OS, the open source branch of Chrome OS, on its web site for use with its Mini 10v netbook more…

30 November 2009
Linux Mint 8 released

Linux Mint logo The 8th release of Linux Mint, a distribution based on Ubuntu 9.10, is now available and features a number of improvements and updates more…

28 November 2009
The H Week

The H Week logo In the past week, The H posted the latest Linux news in three new Kernel Logs, took a look at Google's Chromium OS, and reported on FreeBSD 8.0, KOffice 2.1, Thunderbird 3 and vulnerabilities in Opera and Internet Explorer more…

27 November 2009
OpenShot Linux video editor updated

OpenShot logo The OpenShot developers have released version 0.9.54 of their open source video editor for Linux. The latest update features improvements to snapping, zooming and the time-line more…

27 November 2009
Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 6): Infrastructure

Kernel Log logo Devtmpfs, aka 'devfs 2.0' to its detractors, should allow the Linux kernel to start faster and run without udev. Support has been added for ACPI 4.0 and there are two new make targets which generate kernel configurations attuned to the running system. Changes to the power management subsystem increase data throughput and allow better use of runtime power saving features on modern I/O devices more…

27 November 2009
XDEV releases XDEV 2 Java IDE

XDEV logo XDEV has released its XDEV 2 Java Integrated Development Environment under the XDEV open source licence, which is CPL compatible more…

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