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The H Week - Faster password cracking and Linux 2.6.34 in testing

The H Week logo On The H this week; FOSS at CeBIT, Linux 2.6.34 in testing, new faces at the W3C and OSI, SCO vs. Linux continues, ZigBee hacking, SSD accelerated password cracking, smartphone malware and Mandriva's health checked more »

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Health Check: Mandriva

Mandriva logo Mandriva began life as Linux Mandrake in July 1998 in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands more »

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13 March 2010
SCO vs. Linux: From the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court

SCO / Tux combined logo In the trial at the Court of Appeals, the dispute about whether it is SCO or Novell who owns the copyrights to Unix is taking a new turn more »

12 March 2010
Google releases RE2 Regular Expression Library for C++

Google logo Google have released RE2, a regular expression library for C++ that provides a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative way to use regular expressions more »

12 March 2010
OSFA joins OSI in refuting IIPA's attack on open source

OSFA logo Open Source For America says that the IIPA's "Special 301" call against governments that support the use of open source is irresponsible and misleading in its portrayal of open source more »

12 March 2010
ASP.NET MVC 2 released

Microsoft ASP.net logo The new version of the MVC framework alternative to WebForms is compatible with its predecessor and works with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. ASP.NET MVC 2 will also include the next generation of Microsoft's development environment more »

12 March 2010
Eclipse Logo vote moves to round two

Eclipse logo With the candidates reduced from ten to four, the voting on an updated logo for the Eclipse Foundation has entered round two more »

12 March 2010
OpenGL 4.0 released by Khronos Group

Khronos Group logo The Khronos Group has announced that OpenGL 4.0, the specification for the open 2D and 3D graphics API, is now available more »

12 March 2010
Alert!Safari 4.0.5 patches 16 holes

Safari logo Apple has released Safari 4.0.5, an update which addresses sixteen vulnerabilities in the browser, along with a number of stability and performance improvements more »

12 March 2010
Google Chrome to do away with unique IDs

Google Chrome logo From version 4.1, Chrome will delete the ID token immediately after it is run for the first time – a symbolic step which takes the wind out of critics' sails more »

12 March 2010
Qt 4.7 debuts QML for declarative UI development

Qt logo The Qt developers have announced a technical preview for Qt 4.7, the cross platform C++ framework for GUI applications, and introduced declarative UI design with QML, part of Qt Quick more »

12 March 2010
ICANN boss creates a stir with DNS security warning

Global networking icon By warning of acute danger to the domain name system, ICANN boss Rod Beckstrom has incurred the displeasure of domain operators. They are concerned that governments could get the wrong end of the stick more »

12 March 2010
SecurityFocus to partially shut down

SecurityFocus Logo Symantec has announced that it plans to shut down part of its SecurityFocus security information portal. The company says that only the Mailing Lists, including Bugtraq, and its Vulnerability Database will remain online more »

11 March 2010
Google launches runnable test suite for browser ECMAScript/JavaScript

Sputnik logo Google has announced a test runner for Sputnik, the JavaScript conformance test suite that it launched last June. The test runner makes it easier to run the complete Sputnik test suite from within a browser more »

11 March 2010
Google Summer of Code 2010: Mentoring application deadline

Google Logo Google has announced that the deadline for mentoring organisations to apply to take part in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) event is the 12th of March. Each year Google seeks mentors from the FLOSS community to take part in it's annual GSoC, an event that takes place over the period of three months more »

11 March 2010
SpringSource announces tc Server Spring Edition

SpringSource Logo SpringSource, an open source Java framework specialist, has announced the introduction of tc Server Spring Edition, part of tc Server 2.0 more »

11 March 2010
Liferay moves to LGPL

Liferay logo Liferay, makers of the portal software, are moving from licensing their code under the MIT(X11) licence and switching to the LGPL more »

11 March 2010
Simon Phipps elected as OSI director

OSI logo The Open Source Initiative has elected Simon Phipps, who recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors more »

11 March 2010
Alert!Exploit for new IE hole

Microsoft logo A public exploit for the new hole in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has become available. This will probably force Microsoft to release an out-of-cycle patch more »

11 March 2010
Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 1

Thunderbird Logo The Mozilla developers have released the first beta for what will become version 3.1 of their popular open source email and news client, Thunderbird, code named "Lanikai" more »

11 March 2010
SugarCRM launches new partner programme

SugarCRM logo SugarCRM boosts the channel partner programme for the open source CRM with rewards for qualified referrals more »

11 March 2010
Digg switches to "NoSQL" Cassandra

Cassandra logo Digg has announced that it is moving away from MySQL to the "NoSQL" open source Cassandra distributed data store more »

11 March 2010
DD-WRT to power Buffalo Wi-Fi routers

Wi-Fi Logo Buffalo Technology has announced that it will be using DD-WRT, the free open source firmware, in several of its upcoming consumer and small business wireless routers, including the WZR-HP-G300NH, WHR-HP-G300N and WHR-HP-GN more »

11 March 2010
CodePlex Foundation announces board of directors

CodePlex logo Apache Software Foundation's board chairman joins the board of the Microsoft created Foundation which aims to promote understanding between commercial software vendors and open source communities more »

10 March 2010
Mozilla to update MPL license

Mozilla Logo The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the 10 year old Mozilla Public License (MPL) more »

10 March 2010
Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for GPU computing

YDEL Logo The Fixstars Corporation, which specialises in software for the Cell processors, has announced the release of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) 6.2 for CUDA, the first enterprise Linux OS optimised for GPU computing more »

10 March 2010
Vodafone sold an Android smartphone infected with Mariposa

Android Logo Vodafone Spain sold a HTC Magic Android smartphone which had the Mariposa bot installed on its memory card more »

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