Mozilla hacker responds to "611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities in Firefox"
A few days ago Slashdot trumpeted the headline "611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox", based on a post by Adam Harrison who had applied his company's static code analysis tool to the…
Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services
Microsoft is pledging not to assert its patents pertaining to nearly three dozen Web services specifications--a move designed to ease concerns among developers by creating a legal environment more…
Linux: the new OS celebrity
The mobile industry is a lot like Hollywood. Celebrities hop in and out of the fame limelight at startling speeds; just like various technologies in wireless. Right now, WiMAX is the darling of…
New Senior Vice President to lead Xandros' global sales campaign
NEW YORK, NY - Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows desktop and server products, today announced the appointment of Jeff Kuligowski as Senior Vice President…
Beta Version Of Tresys Brickwall Enterprise For Linux Released
Tresys Technology released a beta version of its Tresys Brickwall Enterprise Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This is the second offering in the Tresys BrickwallTM Security Suite of…
People Behind KDE: Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Behind KDE is featuring Allan Sandfeld Jensen. He is a KDE core developer, mostly active for KHTML and KDE multimedia. After reading the interview you will know what his personal "carewolf" looks…
Is PHP The Cure For The 'Broken' Web?
Those are the words that Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, said to kick off his keynote at the php|works conference under way here.
He said the current state of the Internet includes a…
Create your own Planet
Major open source projects like GNOME, KDE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Apache all have something in common -- they all have Planet feed reader sites set up to aggregate developer blog feeds. The…
Give Linux one more chance -- this time you won't regret it
If you have an old PC lying around (or even a brand new one), this may be the time to give Linux another try.
"A plus side of Linux, as you may know, is that it is less of a resource hog…
University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk
Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is…