AMD Provides Legacy Driver for Old ATI Cards
Apr 20, 2009Contrary to original plans to support the older ATI cards, AMD now wants to provide a legacy driver for them, along the lines of Nvidia.
more »Intel Bottomed Out in Q1?
Apr 15, 2009On this key IRS date, Intel reports a first-quarter revenue and income loss that has hopefully seen the bottom and the company hopes for a resurgence to normal in the coming season.
more »Toshiba Notebooks with OpenSolaris
Apr 09, 2009Hardware manufacturer Toshiba has released a series of notebooks with pre-installed OpenSolaris 2008.11.
more »Netbook Market: Is Microsoft Winning?
Apr 08, 2009While Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc is celebrating his employer as winner in the netbook market, opportunities are opening up in the Asian market for the netbook's even smaller relative, the so-called mobile internet device.
more »Openmoko: Plan B Instead of New Smartphone
Apr 06, 2009The Openmoko FreeRunner smartphone, with its open platform, will remain the company's latest hardware product, at least for now.
more »Embedded Platform: Wind River Linux 3.0
Apr 01, 2009Wind River has released Version 3.0 of the Linux platform for embedded device development.
more »Proprietary Driver for Ubuntu 9.04: Fglrx for X Server 1.6
Mar 18, 2009By Canonical's Bryce Harrington's account, AMD has delivered an ATI driver that should be compatible with the X Server 1.6 found in, among other places, Ubuntu 9.04.
more »Affordable Linux Netbook from the Australian Agora
Mar 18, 2009The Agora netbook from Kogan Technologies could be considered the most affordable netbook out of Australia. Availability starts in April 2009 at a price of merely AU$499.
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Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
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Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
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Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
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TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
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Poll: Vote for the Best Open Source Software for Photographers
The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
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Debian Gets Forked
Legendary Uber-distro splits over the systemd controversy.
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Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
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CeBIT Open Source Forum Call for Papers
One of CeBIT’s most successful forums returns in 2015.