TomTom Fires Back in Microsoft Patent War
Mar 24, 2009Navigation software maker TomTom is now beating its drums against Microsoft for patent rights and has aligned with the Open Invention Network.
more »Sun Provides Open APIs for Cloud Computing
Mar 23, 2009As of this summer, Sun Microsystems will provide storage and computing resources for cloud computing. They intend to open up the APIs with a public review process.
more »ApacheCon Europe 2009 -- Live Stream for Free
Mar 23, 2009From March 25 to March 27 the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), ApacheCon Europe 2009 will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Some of the talks will be available here on Linux Magazine for free.
more »Insecure Candidates: Chrome Wins Hacking Contest
Mar 23, 2009At the CanSecWest Vancouver 2009 conference's PWN2OWN hacker's competition the Safari, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox browsers were successfully hacked to run code on their systems. The Chrome browser was recognized as being the least impacted by the hackers.
more »Integrating Online Payment Adding third-party payment services to your e-commerce site
Mar 22, 2009These days you don’t have to build your whole e-commerce system from scratch. Several companies offer online shopping support for vendors who want to stay light on in-house overhead.
more »openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Build Service
Mar 22, 2009The openSUSE Build Service is a free online service for building binary packages.
more »CeBIT 2009: Watch Talks on Video for Free
Mar 21, 2009The talks with the presentation slides from CeBIT Open Source 2009 are online now - watch more than fifty experts giving lectures for free.
more »New Kernel Firewall Nftables to Succeed Netfilter
Mar 20, 2009The Netfilter team has long been mulling over rework of firewall code in the Linux kernel. Now team lead Patrick McHardy ends months of work by announcing nftables.
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Linux Kernel 6.16 Released with Minor Fixes
The latest Linux kernel doesn't really include any big-ticket features, just a lot of lines of code.
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EU Sovereign Tech Fund Gains Traction
OpenForum Europe recently released a report regarding a sovereign tech fund with backing from several significant entities.
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FreeBSD Promises a Full Desktop Installer
FreeBSD has lacked an option to include a full desktop environment during installation.
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Linux Hits an Important Milestone
If you pay attention to the news in the Linux-sphere, you've probably heard that the open source operating system recently crashed through a ceiling no one thought possible.
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Plasma Bigscreen Returns
A developer discovered that the Plasma Bigscreen feature had been sitting untouched, so he decided to do something about it.
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CachyOS Now Lets Users Choose Their Shell
Imagine getting the opportunity to select which shell you want during the installation of your favorite Linux distribution. That's now a thing.
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Wayland 1.24 Released with Fixes and New Features
Wayland continues to move forward, while X11 slowly vanishes into the shadows, and the latest release includes plenty of improvements.
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Bugs Found in sudo
Two critical flaws allow users to gain access to root privileges.
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Fedora Continues 32-Bit Support
In a move that should come as a relief to some portions of the Linux community, Fedora will continue supporting 32-bit architecture.
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Linux Kernel 6.17 Drops bcachefs
After a clash over some late fixes and disagreements between bcachefs's lead developer and Linus Torvalds, bachefs is out.