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NewsFactor - Mozilla on Tuesday released a Web browser that it said is 10 times faster than its original browser. One year after releasing Firefox 3.0, the Mountain View, Calif.-based ... Read more..Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
Glyn Moody writes "Detractors of free software like to point out it's not really 'free,' and claim that its Total Cost of Ownership is often comparable with closed-source solutions if ... Read more..Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
Gentoo has updated wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities), tomcat (information disclosure), phpmyadmin (multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), seamonkey (arbitrary code execution). Slackware has updated ghostscript (multiple vulnerabilities). ... Read more..Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
From the dept.: The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes ... Read more..Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
Serverwatch: "xclip (available as a package for Debian and Ubuntu) enables you to interact with the X clipboard directly from the command-line — without having to use the mouse to ... Read more..Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
Amarok 2.1.1 was released on June 17th and it includes several bug fixes and a few new features compared to 2.1. Among the new features worth mentioning: there is available ... Read more..Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will ... Read more..Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
On behalf of the KDevelop team I am happy to announce the Beta 4 release of KDevelop 4. This release includes some major new features, such as working sets (only ... Read more..Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
With the different audio and video formats available, there is often the need to inter convert amongst them - sometimes for quality and sometimes for compatibility. Here are some of ... Read more..Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
After having gone to the community for looking at names, Red Hat has announced that the release of Fedora 12 will be codenamed Constantine. This name had the most votes ... Read more..Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable ... Read more..Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
Determining which software we use can be a very social experience, often we?ll ask our friends what they recommend, so why not take this social aspect to the (currently) most ... Read more..Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
LinuxPlanet: "Curious about programming, but having trouble getting started because you're confused about all those languages? This article will give you an overview of the most common desktop languages you'll ... Read more..Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Community, ext4, file system | No Comments »
Ext4 file system (4th extended file system) is the next generation of journaling file systems, retaining backward compatibility with the previous file system, ext3. Ext4 was released as a ... Read more..Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »
The Sun-sponsored VirtualBox project has released a beta 3.0 version of its free, x86-oriented virtualization software. The Linux-compatible xVM VirtualBox 3.0 adds support for guest Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) with up ... Read more..