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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
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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
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With a record 104 current top-level projects and 51 projects in the incubator, the Apache Software Foundation declares an "unprecedented" first quarter
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Version 0.9 of the video editor includes a rewritten effect stack, a new automatic audio alignment function and various usability enhancements
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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QuickTime for Windows update plugs security holes
