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19 July 2013
The Final H Roundup

The H logo After four and a half years, The H, the site for open source news, security stories and developer details has ceased publication, and as part of the closing down, we review the top ten stories of its almost-half decade more »

12 July 2013
Comment: +1 for rapid releases

Comment: +1 for rapid releases Over the last two years, Firefox has demonstrated that releasing new versions at a rapid tempo offers many advantages and doesn't reduce quality. Its approach could offer a blueprint for other projects, such as KDE more »

10 July 2013
What's new in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3

What's new in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 Service Pack 3 includes numerous enhancements for virtualisation and, by adding Secure Boot support and new drivers, beefs up support for newer hardware. There are also numerous enhancements relating to server storage and networking more »

03 July 2013
What's new in Fedora 19

What's new in Fedora 19 In a nod to fans of classic desktop interfaces, the new Fedora includes a MATE variant and classic mode for GNOME. Systemd now takes care of containers and assigning network names. New drivers support 3D acceleration in newer Radeon graphics cards more »

01 July 2013
What's new in Linux 3.10

What's new in Linux 3.10 A second SSD caching framework and support for the new Radeons' video decoder are two of the most important enhancements in Linux 3.10, which is now out. This version also includes several new and improved drivers and a change to the network stack to speed up HTTP connections more »

28 June 2013
Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 4) - Drivers

Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 4) [--] Drivers Linux 3.10 will be able to use the video acceleration features offered by Radeon graphics cores. Systems with Intel graphics will wake from standby faster. Linux now has an input device driver for Apple's infrared receiver more »

26 June 2013
Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 3) - Infrastructure

Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 3) [--] Infrastructure Kernel developers have toned down an over-eager feature for protecting against the Samsung UEFI bug and added a function for reducing timer interrupt overhead. Improvements have also been made to Hyper-V support and instructions for reporting errors more »

25 June 2013
Free Software post-PRISM

Free Software post-PRISM The news has been full of talk of spying, whistleblowing and data mining. Glyn Moody looks at how open source has been used to threaten freedom and privacy and how it could be used to defend them more »

24 June 2013
The H Community Calendar - July 2013 - Update 2

The H Community Calendar The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers more »

22 June 2013
Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 2) - File systems and storage

Coming in 3.10 part 2 Bcache has been added to the kernel as a second framework for SSD caching. More compact metadata should speed up btrfs. Checksums help XFS prevent data errors in its file system structures more »

21 June 2013
Content Security Policy halts XSS in its tracks

Content Security Policy halts XSS in its tracks Cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of the biggest problems faced by webmasters. The new Content Security Policy standard should finally provide some relief more »

17 June 2013
Java EE 7 at a glance

Java EE 7 The next step for Java EE 6 was planned to be cloud support but the collapse of ambitious developer plans has meant Java EE 7 arrived with few fundamentally new aspects, representing more a consistent effort to round off existing features more »

11 June 2013
The trouble with "Business Source"

Business Source? The problem of creating funding in a new software business is a major one, and doubly so for open source based companies. Michael Widenius recently described his solution to the problem, "Business Source", claiming it delivers "most of the benefits of open source". The H took a look to see how that held up more »

07 June 2013
Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 1) – Networking

Coming in 3.10 Linux 3.10 sees improvements in the way lost packets at the end of TCP transactions are handled, speeding up HTTP data transfer. It also sees the addition of support for VLAN stacking and Realtek's RTL8188EE wireless chip more »

04 June 2013
Whatever happened to Google?

Whatever happened to Google? Although Google continues to support a variety of open projects and people, Glyn Moody notes that, following recent changes to Google Code and Google Talk, concern is growing that something fundamental has changed more »

31 May 2013
Comment: Don't develop just for your favourite distribution

Comment: Don't develop just for your favourite distribution Developing configuration programs and desktops for just one distribution creates lone wolves, limits users and slows down progress more »

30 May 2013
Linux Mint 15: A better Ubuntu for the desktop

Linux Mint 15 The Linux Mint project has announced "the most ambitious release since the start of the project". Linux Mint 15 promises a focus on the desktop that Ubuntu has been neglecting lately. The H investigates whether the release delivers on these ambitions more »

24 May 2013
The H Community Calendar - June 2013 - Update

The H Community Calendar The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers more »

20 May 2013
Continuous database migration with Liquibase and Flyway

Continuous database migration with Liquibase and Flyway An application's version-controlled source code is stored in the repository. Why not that of the database? To reproduce arbitrary database states in development, test or production environments, two powerful Java libraries are at hand that can be seamlessly integrated into a build for an agile Continuous Delivery more »

17 May 2013
Skype's ominous link checking: Facts and speculation

Skype Listening In icon Our associate's discovery that URLs sent through Skype are then visited by Microsoft has caused quite a stir. A little more information has now emerged and leads to even more questions more »

15 May 2013
Location, location, location

Location, location, location The rapid rise in the number of mobile devices has led to a concomitant rise in the amount of location data available. Proprietary services are emerging to take advantage of that data, but open source has a strong foothold in the form of OpenStreetMap more »

13 May 2013
The H Half Hour: 10Gen CTO Eliot Horowitz

The H Half Hour The H spent some time with CTO of 10Gen and MongoDB developer Eliot Horowitz to get a feel for the technical philosophy behind the NoSQL document database and where the hands-on coding CTO is planning on taking it more »

08 May 2013
Your next language or how open source changed programming

Your next language Open source has changed how programming languages are created and that, in turn, has changed what languages are used to create open source. The effects are deep, but also important and are changing what it means to be a programmer more »

01 May 2013
What's in a (Free Software project) name?

What's in a (Free Software project) name? Trademarks, names and reputation. Glyn Moody looks at the problems that arise when trying to keep control of your reputation and the different approaches taken by open source software projects. more »

29 April 2013
What's new in Linux 3.9

What's new in Linux 3.8 The Linux kernel is finally able to use SSDs as hard-disk cache. Changes to the network subsystem promise to improve the way server jobs are distributed across multiple processor cores. Linux 3.9 also includes drivers for new AMD graphics chips and soon-expected Wi-Fi components from Intel more »

 


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