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Jim Whitehurst, the President and CEO of Red Hat has had an interesting career to date.  He was a consultant for a number of years, joined Delta Air Lines right around September 11, 2001, and played a big role in securing the future of that company as its Chief Operating Officer, and now is the President and CEO of Red … Read More

Gabe Newell confirms the company is working on hardware to compete with next generation consoles. Valve is known for keeping their cards close to the vest, but every once and awhile, founder Gabe Newell opens up a bit. The legendary CEO was on hand at Friday night’s VGA awards, and confirmed during an interview with Kotaku that a Steam Box … Read More

New CloudForms control freak and virty bundles for cloud builders Red Hat rules Linux and has its fifth of the server racket, and it wants to rule clouds and get more than that share. In fact, Red Hat needs to do that if it hopes to compete against Microsoft and VMware and remain relevant in the data center and the … Read More

RHEV 3.1 – an overview about the new features RHEV-M Recently Red Hat announced the public availability of RHEV 3.1. Finally, no more Windows needed for the whole software stack In 3.0, the new webadmin interface was already inncluded, as a tech preview and had its problems. Now with 3.1 its working great and looks neat. In contrary to 3.0, … Read More

New variant dubbed “Eurograbber” intercepts bank text messages sent to mobile phones to defeat two-factor authentication process. A new version of the Zeus botnet was used to steal about $47 million from European banking customers in the past year, security researchers report. Dubbed “Eurograbber” by security vendors Versafe and Check Point Software Technologies in a report (PDF) released today, the … Read More

Richard M Stallman, the fearless leader of the free software movement has raised some serious concerns about the inclusion of online search in Ubuntu. Stallman is not the only one who is disturbed by this move, the Electric Frontier Foundation also criticized Ubuntu calling it a “data leak” and a “violation” of privacy. Stallman writes: Ubuntu, a widely used and … Read More

serious test, says Wendy M. Grossman WHO runs the internet? For the past 30 years, pretty much no one. Some governments might call this a bug, but to the engineers who designed the protocols, standards, naming and numbering systems of the internet, it’s a feature. The goal was to build a network that could withstand damage and would enable the … Read More

ScopTEL IP PBX VoIP PBX Solution New version of ScopServ Telephony 2.6.18 now available On behalf of the ScopServ International development team I am pleased to announce that a new point release in the 2.6 series of the ScopTEL IP PBX software is now available for immediate download on our repository Read More…

MailArchiva v3.0.38 Now Available You’ll be pleased to know we have been making steady progress in improving the reliability of the MailArchiva v3. Our intention is to ensure that MailArchiva v3 is absolutely bullet proof. Please do report any problems that you encounter. Sadly, in the quest for continuing improvements in the performance of IMAP, we accidentally introduced an issue that … Read More

I recently had a chance to sit down over a Thai food lunch with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. Whitehurst, who took over Red Hat after leaving Delta Airlines in 2007, had a lot to say about the current situation of open source computing, and ReadWrite will be following up on many of those threads in the coming weeks and … Read More

Working from my Ubuntu desktop all day has given me an interesting perspective into what works and what doesn’t when it comes to applications. In this article, I will offer you a roundup of software titles that enable me to make my day a more productive one. These applications range from productivity tools down to the Web-based tools that I … Read More

Splashtop today is releasing remote desktop Streamer software for Ubuntu Linux. We’ve been following this company (aka DeviceVM) for a few years and are excited about its evolution and what it’s bringing to Linux users. We share here a Q&A we were able to do with Splashtop CEO Mark Lee about today’s news. It includes a sneak preview for Linux … Read More

Red Hat’s OpenShift platform-as-a-service started as a hosted solution for developers. It was, ostensibly, Red Hat dipping its toe into the platform-as-a-service waters. It proved successful enough to keep going. In keeping with Red Hat’s open source ethos, the product was released as an open source project called OpenShift Origin. This allowed anyone to deploy and run the Red Hat … Read More

Summary: The explosion in open source projects in the HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery, PhoneGap, Sencha, Hadoop and Cordova are driving a new model and a golden age of “app” development, Forrester Research says. An explosion in the number of open source technologies and projects is driving the new paradigm of application development in … Read More

Over €10 million (approximately £8 million or $12.8 million) has been saved by the city of Munich, thanks to its development and use of the city’s own Linux platform. The calculation of savings follows a question by the city council’s independent Free Voters (Freie Wähler) group, which led to Munich’s municipal LiMux project presenting a comparative budget calculation at the … Read More