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At the Linux Foundation, the future of Solaris, or should I say lack thereof, is clear. Executive Director Jim Zemlin is adamant that “the future is Linux and Microsoft Windows…is not Unix or… Read more…
The second version of xVM’s VirtualBox desktop virtualization software has been released. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware that is targeted for server, desktop and… Read more…
Former chief operating officer of Delta Airlines, now chief executive over at Red Hat wastes no words to convey his beliefs: “The clouds will all run Linux.” In an interview with CNET News.com,… Read more…
Linux
creator Linus Torvalds and the most public image of the Linux movement noted
that “security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can’t
stand.” The row came about… Read more…
Security
research Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how processor bugs can be
leveraged to remotely attack a computer with nothing more than JavaScript or
TCP/IP packets. The scary thing here… Read more…
Alcatel-Lucent
has released a new version of its OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian which
now works with full hard-disk applications from other vendors. The 3500 is a PCMCIA card with its… Read more…
More
than a decade in the making, and two full years after version 0.9.9, Wine 1.0
has finally been released. Wine is the
free Windows API emulation layer that allows various Windows… Read more…
In
a bold move, Hewlett Packard has made its Tru64 Unix Advanced File Sharing
(AdvFS) System available to open source developers under the General Public
License (GPL) Version 2. AdvFS was
designed… Read more…
Release
candidate 1 of Firefox 3 has been released late last week to the public. RC1 purportedly offers significant
improvements in the area of performance, memory usage and stability
