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Oracle releases VirtualBox 4.1.16

May22
2012
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Oracle releases VirtualBox 4.1.16

Today Oracle released VirtualBox 4.1.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1: The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183) VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some [...]

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First tarball release of the new GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90

May09
2012
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The first tarball release of the New GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90 has been made. nPth is a non-preemptive threads implementation using an API very similar to the one known from GNU Pth. It has been designed as a replacement of GNU Pth for non-ancient operating systems. In contrast to GNU Pth is is [...]

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OpenOffice 3.4 Released

May09
2012
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OpenOffice 3.4 Released

The first version of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation has been released. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is available for download free of charge. OpenOffice 3.4 features: word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, drawing, and mathematical editing applications support for Windows, Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and Macintosh operating environments native language support for English, Arabic, [...]

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Jury in deadlocked on copyright issues in Oracle vs Google???

May04
2012
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The copyright part of Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over possible infringement of the Java intellectual property in Android is moving into its final phase and there are indications that, for the copyright part of the lawsuit, the jury might be deadlocked. A jury member asked the judge yesterday how the jury should proceed if an [...]

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Does Android’s open source status make it better in terms of privacy?

May04
2012
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Does Android’s open source status make it better in terms of privacy? Find out here.

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The Android source code on the Galaxy Nexus is Google’s “trade secret”

May04
2012
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Apple has filed a motion as part a preliminary injunction against the latest Google smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, in which it is asking for Google reveal what are the differences, if any, between the open source version of Android code and the source code for the Android version on the Galaxy Nexus. Google reply [...]

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Linux Format censored over ‘Learn to Hack’ feature

May04
2012
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The latest issue of Linux Format has being pulled from the shelves of US bookselling giant Barnes & Noble because it contained a hacking how-to. Issue 154 of Linux Format contained an article entitled ‘Learn to Hack,’ walking readers through the use of the Metasploit Framework exploitation toolkit to gain access to computer systems running a [...]

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VirtualBox 4.1.14 released

Apr26
2012
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Today Oracle released VirtualBox 4.1.14, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the Changelog at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog for a complete list of all changes. You can download the binaries here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/

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The London Olympics and Open Source Software

Jan12
2012
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The 2012 London Olympics promises to be a spectacular event. Recently I have been wondering what role open source software will play in the event. Here are a few things that have come to mind: 1) There will be lots of websites carrying news, results, information and statics about the event. Linux is the most popular web [...]

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CentOS-5.7 Released for 32 bit and 64 bit CPUs

Sep15
2011
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CentOS-5.7 Released for 32 bit and 64 bit CPUs

CentOS-5.7 has been released, It is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All the upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. The Release Notes for CentOS-5.7 can be found on-line at: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.7 Downloading CentOS-5.7 by Torrent When possible, consider using torrents [...]

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Raspberry Pi – An ARM Linux box for $25

Sep13
2011
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Size of a credit card, designed to plug into a TV or be combined with a touch screen for a low cost tablet. All for $25 for a fully-configured system. 700MHz Broadcom media processor featuring an ARM11 (ARM1176JZF-S) core, Broadcom GPU core, DSP core and support for Package-on-Package (PoP) RAM 128MiB (Model A) or 256MiB [...]

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CentOS 5.7 is now staging for release

Sep07
2011
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It has just been announced via twitter that CentOS-5.7 is now staging for release. It should hit the public mirrors sometime on Saturday 10th September. CentOS 5.7 should include: Various KVM and Xen improvements, including: Xen 32bit performance improvement Xen boot time reduced KVM CD-ROM emulation improvements KVM live migration speed improvements Usage of XFS in conjunction [...]

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Oracle Enhances MySQL Installer and High Availability for Windows

Sep07
2011
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Oracle has released a new MySQL Installer for Windows to simplify and streamline the installation process. According to the press release: Oracle delivers up to 90 percent cost savings over Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL Enterprise Edition,(2) which includes a complete suite of visual tools for modeling, development, monitoring, administration and backup of Windows-based MySQL [...]

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NSA proposes Accumulo NoSQL database to Apache

Sep05
2011
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Built on top of Apache’s Hadoop, Zookeeper and Thrift projects, Accumulo is a distributed key/value store based on the design of Google’s BigTable. Developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), the Accumulo project has now been proposed to the Apache Software Foundation for consideration and incubation as a new Apache project. Accumulo’s big difference [...]

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What’s New in CentOS 6

Aug20
2011
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Last month saw the release of CentOS 6. The move from 5 to 6 establishes the foundation for this community-run enterprise Linux distribution for the next five years. CentOS brings a new kernel, new versions of key server components, and improved virtualization support. The new release was unexpectedly slow in arriving. In 2007, the CentOS [...]

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25,000+ Hospital Staff in Demark to Use LibreOffice

Aug19
2011
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Almost 25,000 staff from a group of thirteen Copenhagen hospitals will mirgate to using LibreOffice,the community maintained and developed fork of the OpenOffice.org office suite, over the next year. The plan, reported by OSOR.EU, is being embarked upon for “long term strategic reasons” and aims to save around 5.3 million euros in proprietary licence costs. The hospital [...]

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Ubuntu Server 11.10 to Support ARM

Aug18
2011
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According to a blog post by Chris Kenyon on the Canonical Blog, the Ubuntu Server 11.10 release will be simultaneously available for x86, x86-64 and ARM-based architectures. The base image of the releases will be the same across architectures with a common kernel baseline. The ARM architecture will also be part of the long-term support (LTS) [...]

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CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release Repository is Now Available

Aug16
2011
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The CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release ( CR ) repository is now available on mirror.centos.org. This repository contains rpms to be included in the next CentOS-5.x release. Because these include security and bugfix updates, we strongly recommend everyone using CentOS-5 install and update their system using this repository. Download and Install Installing the CR repository needs a manual step. You must [...]

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Packt Publishing, the publishers of Learning FreeNAS, have donated over $300,000 to open source projects

Mar03
2011
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Packt Publishing, the publishers of paper and electronic books, including Learning FreeNAS, has announced that it has made donations now totalling over $300,000 to open source projects. Since starting to make such donations in 2004, the company has helped support over 70 different open source projects. via Packt Publishing’s open source donations top $300,000  

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Executive director of the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin talks Linux

Feb28
2011
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Jim Zemlin, former executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation, and earlier this month he sat down with the Google’s / Samba’s Jeremy Allison for a chat about the future of Linux.

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