Android Internet Tablet from Archos
Sep 17, 2009Electronics manufacturer Archos has introduced its new ARM-based multimedia player including Linux platform Android in collaboration with Google. An additional DVR docking station allows the device to morph into a video recorder.
more »IndiMail 1.6 Includes Greylisting and BATV
Sep 14, 2009IndiMail, an email solution made of open source components, now includes greylisting spam filtering in version 1.6.
more »Botnet of Linux Servers with Dynamic IP Discovered
Sep 14, 2009A Russian Web developer has found a network of a couple of hundred Linux servers that could distribute malware to Windows systems.
more »Debmirror 2.2 Faster and Multi-Language
Sep 14, 2009Debian developer Frans Pop has updated debmirror, a tool that creates local copies of Debian repositories. The version number thereby jumped from 1.0 to 2.2 in just three weeks.
more »Oracle-Sun Plans Missing MySQL
Sep 11, 2009Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems hasn't been fully sanctioned by anti-trust entities and Oracle already has a message for customers: we'll continue to care intensively about SPARC and Solaris. Something's missing here: MySQL.
more »Open vSwitch as Virtual Switch for VM Environments
Sep 09, 2009The Open vSwitch open source project has announced development of a sofware switch for virtual environments.
more »Ingo Molnar Tests New BF Scheduler
Sep 08, 2009Kernel developer Ingo Molnar has done a benchmark test to compare his Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) with the recently released BFS from Australian Con Kolivas.
more »RRZR Publishes Icons under CC-BY-SA
Sep 07, 2009The regional data processing center in Germany's Erlangen (RRZR) has released a collection of symbols correlating to diverse IT themes under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA.
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