Sun Stops Solaris Express Community Edition
Aug 12, 2009Sun will discontinue production of Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October. A replacement is being planned.
more »British Local Authorities Hesitant on Open Source
Aug 11, 2009A new survey by the Public Sector Forums in the U.K. on public financing of IT costs was based on a sample of 168 local authorities.
more »VMware Acquires SpringSource
Aug 11, 2009Virtualization provider VMware has purchased open source firm SpringSource for $420 million.
more »Apache 2.2.13 with Overflow Protection
Aug 11, 2009With Apache 2.2.13, developers have closed security holes in the popular webserver.
more »Microsoft Contract for Samba Developer
Aug 10, 2009Samba Project developer Chris Hertel has clinched a contract with Microsoft to write protocol documentation.
more »BlazeBlogger 0.9.0: Command Line CMS
Aug 03, 2009BlazeBlogger is a command line tool that allows creating blogs and websites without server-side software. It is now available in version 0.9.0.
more »10th Annual Sys Admin Day - Admins, We Thank You!
Jul 31, 2009For the 10th time, this day is dedicated to those unsung heroes working in the background: System Administrators.
more »GNU Emacs 23.1 Provides Anti-Aliasing
Jul 30, 2009Emacs, the extensible editor of the GNU project, is available in version 23.1. The release adds countless modernizations to the traditional program, such as font anti-alising and support for D-Bus and zeroconf.
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