Fedora 13 praised for security and permissions enhancements

June 19, 2010

The Fedora project’s community-driven Fedora 13 Linux distribution has been reviewed by eWEEK, which was impressed with its cutting-edge enterprise features. (read on…) Related items Desktop Linux: When and how to add proprietary software Installer Software facilitates Plug Computing deployment. Taking webm for a Spin Fedora 11 reaches end of life Helping others get Fedora
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Microsoft, VMware Trade Words Over Novell SUSE Support

June 19, 2010

When VMware said earlier this month that it will offer Novell SUSE with its vSphere technology on an OEM basis, Microsoft saw the opportunity to slam its rival over Linux support and its approach to the cloud, charges dismissed by VMware. (read here…) Related items openSUSE 11.3 arrives with experimental Btrfs support New Linux Kernel, Btrfs in Novell...
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Mafia – Walkthrough

June 18, 2010

Mafia (PC) Mafia The City of Lost Heaven (read on…) Related items Microsoft updates Linux virtual machine support LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for small files massive heavy load Ubuntu 10.04: A Second Look KDE 4.5 Screenshot Tour 10 reasons why your kids should be using Linux
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GPL’d Linux driver released for MPEG-4 compression

June 18, 2010

Bluecherry released an open source driver for version 2 of its Linux-based compression card for MPEG-4 video recording. (read here…) Related items Microsoft updates Linux virtual machine support Ubuntu 10.04: A Second Look KDE 4.5 Screenshot Tour Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux Dell expands Ubuntu Linux desktop offerings
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New ATI Linux Video Driver Has OpenGL 4.0 and RHEL 5.5 Support

June 18, 2010

Softpedia: “AMD announced another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures.” (read on…) Related items OpenShot 1.0 Is an Actually Usable Linux Video Editor (Lifehacker) * OpenShot: A Prematurely Released Video Editor * (OSNews) Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas (Slashdot) Review: Top 5 Linux Video...
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When It Comes to Security, Openness Isn’t Always a Virtue – Rebuttals

June 17, 2010

It’s hard to imagine a topic more central to the argument for or against free and open source software than security. Hardly a day goes by without news of some fresh exploit in the Windows environment, after all — but what about Linux and other open software? Can they do better? That’s essentially the...
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Akademy Announces 2010 Sponsors

June 17, 2010

From July 3rd through July 10th the KDE community will gather in Tampere, Finland for our yearly Akademy conference. We are pleased to announce that, once again, a number of sponsors will be helping to make this event possible. (read on…) Related items Microsoft updates Linux virtual machine support LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for...
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Red Hat Announces Finalists in Fourth Annual Innovation Awards

June 17, 2010

RALEIGH, N.C.—-Red Hat, Inc. , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the finalists in its fourth annual Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat’s platform and middleware solutions by customers, partners and the open source community. (read...
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KDE Visits FOSS Nigeria Conference 2010

June 16, 2010

In 2010 the FOSS Nigeria Conference took place for the second time and, like last year, KDE attended the conference with two speakers. There was however a change in the visiting KDE team: Frederik Gladhorn joined Adriaan de Groot to take the place of Jonathan Riddell who could not make it this year. (story here…) Related...
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