GNU Emacs 23.1 Provides Anti-Aliasing

Jul 30, 2009

Emacs, the extensible editor of the GNU project, is available in version 23.1. The release adds countless modernizations to the traditional program, such as font anti-alising and support for D-Bus and zeroconf.

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Yahoo and Microsoft in Search Engine Pact

Jul 30, 2009

Yahoo and Microsoft yesterday announced plans of a joint venture to challenge the search engine giant Google. The plans include Yahoo search running on Microsoft's "Bing" technology. In return, Yahoo will handle service support for both companies' premium customers.

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Bugzilla 3.4 Released

Jul 29, 2009

Mozilla's bug tracker Bugzilla is now available in version 3.4. and developers have worked hard on the major release to make life for the user a lot easier.

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SLAMPP 2.0: Live System with PHP, Python and Rails

Jul 29, 2009

The Live distro SLAMPP is now available in version 2.0. It is a system of Linux containing, among other things, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl, hence the moniker SLAMPP.

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DoS Attack Exploit in BIND 9

Jul 29, 2009

A specially crafted dynamic update message to a DNS zone for which the server is a master can raise havoc in BIND 9. An active remote exploit is already "in wide circulation."

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Citrix Receiver Now Also for Android Smartphones

Jul 29, 2009

At its iForum conference in Singapore on July 28, the Xen owner Citrix announced that its Citrix Receiver software for virtulized Windows systems would be extended to the Android platform. Until now it was available only in iPhone mobile devices.

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Novell Starts SUSE Studio Appliance Program

Jul 28, 2009

Novell has announced its image building SUSE Studio to be ready for production and the Linux distributor has simultaneously started a partner-program aimed at software manufacturers who want to use SUSE Linux Enterprise as a base for software appliances.

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Digital Restrictions: FSF Campaign to Free Kindle Software

Jul 28, 2009

The Free Software Foundation started an online campaign in the Amazon forum to free the Kindle code. Supporters already number more than 650.

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Issue 14: Raspberry Pi Handbook/Special Editions

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