CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge -- AllBSD FreeBSD and NetBSD -- Representing the BSD Operating Systems
Feb 10, 2009FreeBSD and NetBSD are among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, sharing a booth and representing "Berkeley Software Distribution" operating systems. If you paid attention -- you're right, actually it's 16 projects at the Open Source Project Lounge.
more »Kernel Hacker Wants to Crack Android Code
Feb 10, 2009Czech kernel developer Pavel Machek wants to be root on his T-Mobile G1 Android Linux mobile phone so that he can exploit security holes simply to extend usability of the phone.
more »FOSDEM: Gnash Developer Deciphers RTMP
Feb 10, 2009Rob Savoye has been engaged in numerous projects, but in his work on Gnash, a free implementation of the Adobe Flash Player, he found a hard nut to crack: how to decipher the protocol details of the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) it uses. He has now presented his solution at the FOSDEM '09 conference in Belgium.
more »FOSDEM: Enterprise Linux for all, thanks to Centos
Feb 09, 2009Dag Wieers of Project Centos made a passionate plea for more private users to turn to the free Red Hat Enterprise clone, and stressed that commercial companies with non-critical machines could also benefit from Centos.
more »FOSDEM: Pride and Success in 2009
Feb 09, 2009Over the weekend the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) took place in Brussels. In his keynote, Mozilla's Mark Surman hoped for Open Source's success and Debian key contributor Bdale Garbee supported its social contract. As an aside, Debian Lenny's target release date was reconfirmed.
more »CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge -- GNOME Gnome -- free desktop environment
Feb 05, 2009Gnome is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering free desktop environment of Linux and Linux-like systems that is especially focused on offering easy access.
more »Sidekick Mobile Phone with NetBSD: Microsoft's Next?
Feb 04, 2009Over a year ago Microsoft bought the software company Danger, popular in the U.S. for its Sidekick mobile phone. A new model is coming out, this time running on NetBSD.
more »Novell's SUSE on Dell Thin Clients
Feb 03, 2009SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client is now pre-installed on the newest Dell thin clients.
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