Why There is Better Driver Support in 64-bit Linux Than 64-bit Windows XP
I use Linux everyday, it is the main operating system on my PC and I use it for everything. I have a 64-bit Athlon machine and I run SUSE 10.1 64 bit. Recently someone bought be a copy of Windows…
Another slip in the FC6 schedule
Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs),…
Xen - A GPLed Virtualisation Technology for Linux
Linux had always lacked a Open Source virtualisation technology in the same league as Solaris containers or commercial product like Vmware. That was until Xen came into the picture. Xen is an…
eBay snubs sellers running Linux
Recent changes to eBay's selling pages no longer offers all features to Linux users. Full selling features are not available from Linux platforms, including uploading photos of items.
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JBoss Updates Hibernate, Certifies on Java Persistence
JBoss, a division of Red Hat, today released Hibernate 3.2, the latest update to the company's powerful, award-winning Java object/relational mapping software. By user demand, JBoss has simplified…
Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
A leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread adoption of open-source software.
Sent in response to…
Microsoft-led project to deliver on ODF
Microsoft later this month plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format.
The plug-in for Word, set for release Oct. 23, is the first…
Firefox 2.0 RC3 Released
Firefox 2 Release Candidate 3 (RC 3) is a preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for download to Web application developers, our testing community and…
Buffer Overflow in NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver For Linux
The NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug can be exploited both locally or remotely (via a…
KOffice 1.6 Released
The KDE Project announced the release of KOffice version 1.6, the long awaited version with major improvements in a number of areas. The 1.6 release is intended mainly as a feature release for…