Webconverger 4.7 with Firewall and Adobe Reader

Apr 27, 2009

Webconverger, a Linux distro to drive web kiosk systems, is now available in version 4.7. Some updates improve its security.

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Faster Aptitude 0.5.2

Apr 27, 2009

Debian's Daniel Burrows has released a new version of the Aptitude standard package manager that ratchets up performance of the dependency solver, among other things.

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Debian Kernel Has No Proprietary Firmware

Apr 23, 2009

Debian developer Robert Millan is offering an alternative kernel for Debian's Lenny free Linux distro. Unlike the standard Lenny kernel, it contains no proprietary firmware.

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Future of Btrfs Secured

Apr 22, 2009

Following the news of Oracle's purchase of Sun, we hear a lot about MySQL, OpenOffice and VirtualBox. But Btrfs vs. ZFS is yet another highlight of the takeover.

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Open Business Intelligence from Infobright and Jaspersoft

Apr 21, 2009

The Infobright and Jaspersoft firms have combined their open source software into an integrated data warehousing and business intelligence solution.

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Easy Peasy 1.1: New Version of the Ubuntu Derivative for Netbooks

Apr 21, 2009

The latest release of Easy Peasy comes with artwork updates and re-worked packages but few spectacular changes.

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Milter Manager 1.0.0 Combines Anti-Spam Filters

Apr 17, 2009

Milter Manager, a program for mail filter interfaces to mail servers, is now in its first stable version 1.0.0. It allows combining multiple mail filters.

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NetworkManager 0.7.1 Power-Saving

Apr 17, 2009

On the project mailing list, Dan Williams announced the new version 0.7.1 of NetworkManager that provides a bunch of enhancements.

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