Kaspersky Lab: Spammers Do Their Own Advertising
Aug 27, 2009In its semi-annual spam report, the Russian security experts Kaspersky Lab have concluded the economic crisis has had no bearing on the amount of spam distributed worldwide. However, spammers have had to turn to creating ads for their very own services.
more »OpenBSD Developers Work on AerieBSD
Aug 26, 2009A group of OpenBSD developers have joined in the AerieBSD project. A new distro is being prepared whose likeness to OpenBSD is unmistakable.
more »Moonlight 2.0 Enters Test Phase
Aug 18, 2009The first beta version of Moonlight 2.0 has been released. Moonlight is the free counterpart to Silverlight, Microsoft-Novell's attempt to rival Flash.
more »Kind of Magic: Parted Magic 4.4 Halves RAM Usage, Dial-Up Available
Aug 14, 2009The Parted Magic LiveCD provides numerous tools for partitioning and data backup and recovery. The newest version 4.4 runs on systems with just 256-MByte RAM and now supports dial-up networking.
more »Image-Conscious: Oracle Releases Template Builder
Aug 13, 2009Template Builder as of now is a permanent part of Oracle's JeOS mini-Linux and produces images, known as templates, for Oracle VM.
more »Tidydoc Document Organizer
Aug 13, 2009Tidydoc makes organizing documents easy, be it via a file transfer program or web interface. The open source software is now available in version 0.5.
more »Finnix 93.0 Fresh from Debian Testing
Aug 13, 2009Finnix, a LiveCD Linux distro for system administrators, is available in version 93.0.
more »Sun Stops Solaris Express Community Edition
Aug 12, 2009Sun will discontinue production of Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October. A replacement is being planned.
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