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The openSUSE project has announced the official release of openSUSE 11.3.
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It’s been a while in the coming but Wordpress 3.0 is now here and it is packed with big changes.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/wordpress-3-0-blasts-off/

AXIGEN 7.4 is the most pertinent step forward yet. It adds just the right touch to everything: email, calendaring and collaboration, all packaged in an ever more mature, secure and stable product. Full story: http://www.axigen.com/new-features/?tpkey=v741pt http://www.axigen.com/new-features/?tpkey=v741pt

At the Red Hat Summit in Boston last week, Josh Bressers, a senior security engineer at Red Hat, explained why open source really is the best model for building secure software. “We don’t have clothes on,” said Bressers. He didn’t mean that they sit around Red Hat central naked – let’s hope that’s not what he meant. No, what Bressers … Read More

The advent of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 marks the next stage in Red Hat’s goal of providing the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of middleware products. Organizations worldwide now have a flexible, open source alternative for building, deploying, integrating and managing on-premise and cloud-based applications

Red Hat recently announced the next step in the integration of its enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualization portfolio with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. In addition to providing the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, the 2.2 update includes new scalability capabilities, migration tools and features to expand the performance and security of … Read More

The ‘tr’ command can be used to translate plaintext into ROT13 or ROT47. Just type tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m . Now enter any plaintext you wish into the terminal and the ROT13’d ciphertext will immediately be echoed to stdout. “This message was translated to ROT13 by the UNIX ‘tr’ command.” will yield: “Guvf zrffntr jnf genafyngrq gb EBG13 ol gur HAVK … Read More

Generally, all operating systems including Linux need a scheduled reboot once to stay up to date with important kernel security updates. RHN (or other distro vendors) provides Linux kernel security updates. You can apply kernel updates using yum command or apt-get command line options. After each upgrade you need to reboot the server. Ksplice service allows you to skip reboot … Read More

Red Hat has launched a comprehensive package, called Red Hat Cloud Foundations, that will allow organizations to run applications in both public clouds and their own private clouds. Complete story: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178440/Red_Hat_launches_hybrid_cloud_platform?source=rss_applications

The first release candidate for OpenSuse 11.3 has been released and the team looks to be well on track for a final release on July 15. Chief changes in 11. 3 are btrfs file support, which will be offered as an option during installation, and the integration of the Noveau driver to support NVIDIA graphics cards. The new btrfs filesystem … Read More

The third issue of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review has been released. And even if you’re not a lawyer there is food for thought. With everything from a profile of the BSD licence, to issues around copyright in free software and a review of case law related to free software, the journal makes for interesting reading … Read More

Dell today confirmed that it was in talks with Google to ship Chrome OS on its netbooks. The company’s president of Greater China and South Asia, Amit Midha, said that Dell devices were in development although he didn’t add any detail. Google’s Chrome OS is a Linux-based web-focused operating system that is intended for ultra-portable laptops. Google is expected to … Read More

VLC, the Swiss army knife of multimedia viewing, has released a new version, 1.1.0. Already a top-class video player VLC 1.1.0 adds a number of new goodies, including WebM support and GPU-decoding. The highlights: GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 DSP … Read More

A week later than originally scheduled, the FreeBSD team has issued a first release candidate (RC1) for version 8.1 of its popular Unix-like operating system. The final release of FreeBSD 8.1 was scheduled for July 9 bit with the current delay that may be pushed out by a week. Major changes include improvements to Solaris ZFS support and added support … Read More