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High Availability: Linbit Merges DRBD+ with DRDB into Open Source

Austrian company Linbit has announced that it is merging its DRBD+ commercial high availability (HA) software with the open source version DRBD to make a free software solution.

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Patent Dispute Forces Openmoko Housecleaning

The Openmoko project, developers of an open source mobile phone platform, has recently pulled its download site offline due to a patent dispute.

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Canonical Ports Ubuntu on ARM Platform

End of last week ARM Ltd and Canonical Ltd announced that they would port Linux to the ARMv7 processor architecture. If all goes well, the two collaborating firms should provide further hardware manufacturers with the basis to develop new, energy-efficient mobile devices, especially for the popular netbooks and so-called hybrid computers.

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Intel Updates C++ and Fortran Compilers for Linux

Chipmaker Intel has reworked its proprietary Linux compilers. The Intel C/C++ compiler version 11.0 now supports the mobile processor Atom. The same version of the Fortran compiler now supports the Fortran 2003 language standard.

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Silicon Valley Spam-Slinger Knocked out Cold

Russia may not be the only place spam hosts lay in wait. Tuesday of this week San Jose webhoster McColo went offline. The result is that the world's spam rate is now down by three-quarters, at least according to the Washington Post's online service.

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USENIX LISA: Security Theater Plays a Role - Bruce Schneier's Keynote

The opening keynote Thursday of the USENIX LISA conference in San Diego was by author and security expert Bruce Schneier. In his opinion "perceived security" should be an aspect of all security implementation.

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Issue #99 / Feb 2009

Cover Theme: VoIP Security

DVD: openSUSE 11.1

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This month we investigate expert techniques for securing your VoIP and wireless networks. We describe how to use one-time passwords to add two-factor authentication to a website, and we look a... more »

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Watch 19 talks from the ApacheCon US in New Orleans from the convenience of your home or office. Topics are: Scaling Apache 2.x in all dimensions, Securing Communications with your Apache HTTP Server, Scripting your Java Application with BSF 3.0 and much more.
 

 

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