MilaX 0.5: OpenSolaris as Live-CD
Feb 16, 2010MilaX, a Live distribution of OpenSolaris, is available in version 0.5 with new software.
more »Award for Linux Access to Governmental E-Mail in Czech Republic
Feb 16, 2010According to an announcement by the European OSOR information service, a group of Czech companies and individuals has offered a roughly 3,200 euro award to develop platform-independent access to the mandatory "Data boxes" email service used by government agencies.
more »Moblin + Maemo = Meego
Feb 15, 2010The open source project Meego will see Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo merge into one mobile platform.
more »Managelogs Handles Apache Logs
Feb 15, 2010The managelogs program manages the Apache Web server generated log files. For version 2.0.0 the developers made some changes to the build.
more »Certificates: Novell and LPI Working Together
Feb 12, 2010Novell and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) are moving in one direction in certificate solutions: Anyone holding a LPIC certificate will now automatically qualify for the CLA.
more »Oracle Lays Off Accessibility Leader
Feb 11, 2010The leader of the Gnome accessibility team, Will Walker, has until now worked for the Accessibility Program Office from Sun, which after the Oracle take-over melted into the relevant APO at Oracle.
more »Curl Learns IMAP, POP3, SMTP
Feb 10, 2010Command line downloader Curl and its Libcurl library are available in version 7.20.0 with expanded protocol support.
more »IBM's New POWER7 Machines Work with 8 x 32 Threads
Feb 10, 2010The new POWER7 processor has eight cores each running four threads. The biggest of the new POWER7 servers has almost 64 processor cores. An additional TurboCore mode can see to even better performance.
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