AMD Joins OpenJDK Project Sumatra
Oct 04, 2012AMD announces its participation in OpenJDK Project “Sumatra” in collaboration with Oracle and other members of the OpenJDK community to help bring heterogeneous computing capabilities to Java for server and cloud environments.
more »VMware Announces VMware Workstation 9
Aug 30, 2012VMware Workstation 9, the latest version of VMware's personal virtualization software, now delivers Windows 8 support, a new web UI, and OpenGL support for Linux.
more »vSphere Free virtualization with VMware vSphere
Jul 24, 2012The free vSphere Hypervisor 5.0 lets companies enter into professional virtualization without the overhead of a commercial solution. If you decide you need additional enhancements later, you can always upgrade to enhanced VMware solutions.
more »Practical Wine Building a Wine environment for Windows applications
Jun 21, 2012More and more Windows applications run on Linux thanks to Wine. If you spend a little time on configuration and troubleshooting, you won’t be stuck in Windows – even with applications that no one dreamed would run on Linux.
more »CrossOver Install and run Windows applications on Linux with CrossOver
Jun 21, 2012If Wine has thrown you into the impenetrable depths of operating system arcana, you might try CrossOver, a commercial application that contributes to the Wine project.
more »Nested Virtualization A private cloud with high availability and storage on the laptop
Jun 21, 2012Nesting of hypervisors, known as a nested virtualization, makes it possible to set up a complete virtualization scenario with a data center, storage, and high-availability functions on a laptop. In this article, we show you how, with Linux iSCSI and free VMware trial versions.
more »Fedora 17 Released
May 31, 2012The Fedora Project announces the availability of Fedora 17, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution.
more »Rocks Releases Mamba
May 17, 2012The latest version of Rocks cluster distribution – an open source toolkit for real and virtual clusters – has been released.
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Working Exploit for a Linux Kernel Flaw Made Public
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r/opensource Bans AI-Assisted and AI-Related Projects
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Bottlenecks Discovered by Meta Engineers Lead to Scalability Improvements
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PwnEscape Poses VM Vulnerability
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Linux Mint 27 Set for a Christmas Release
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Is Linus Torvalds Vibe Coding?
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openKylin 3.0 Released with Expanded AI Integration
The latest release features a pre-installed AI agent to help perform tasks.
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DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program
In a change that has surprised many open source developers, DigitalOcean has decided to sunset its Open Source Credits Program.
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Office 365 Available for Testing on Linux via Bottles
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Dutch Government Turns to Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
Following in the footsteps of other European countries, the Netherlands is looking to increase its sovereign digital infrastructure with open source software.