The latest Shiretoko (Firefox 3.1 development codename) nightly comes with an expected and very welcomed feature: support for the HTML5 specification and tags that will allow web developers to easily () add rich content without the need of proprietary plugins.
While the support for the tag is pretty codec-neutral (you can use whatever [...]
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google’s decision to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service.
The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects licensed under MPL, although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay.
The move comes two years after Google Code launched, when MPL was [...]
Hard drives are slow and fail often, and though abolished for working memory ages ago, fixed-size partitions are still the predominant mode of storage space allocation. As if worrying about speed and data loss weren’t enough, you also have to worry about whether your partition size calculations were just right when you were installing a [...]
Are you currently running Windows and Linux in a dual-boot setup? You're going to have major headaches with Vista SP1, Microsoft has admitted.
If you’re dualbooting Windows Vista Enterprise or Ultimate alongside a Linux distro, and have installed the Linux bootloader into the MBR, then you’re guaranteed to run into problems when installing Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft has admitted.
Setting up a LAMP server is a common task for systems administrators, and FreeBSD is one of the most reliable and stable operating systems available. Why not combine both LAMP and FreeBSD to build a fast and reliable Web server?
Read more at Linux.com
This how-to refers to the installation and configuration of
Clamav 0.93.3 (from sources) on a Linux server running CentOS 5.2 and
sendmail. We assume the fact you’ve installed sendmail from the rpm
packages of your distribution.
Read more at HowtoForge
KDE 4.1, the second major release of KDE 4, has been released. KDE 4.1 adds new applications (including the KDE PIM suite), improvements to the Plasma desktop shell, and improved frameworks for developers.
The same day as KDE 4.1 was released, packages were available for Ubuntu. You can easily install a KDE 4 desktop alongside your [...]
Virtualization cannot be that simpler than in openSUSE 11.0. In openSUSE 11.0, Xen Virtualization ins pre-built and all it takes is a few clicks away from up and running with Virtualization in no time. Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance [...]
Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first “openSUSE Day” in North America, in conjuction with the LinuxWorld Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
We’ll have a full day of presentations about the openSUSE Project, [...]
Hello,
I am very pleased to announce that Traits 3.0 has just been released!
All Traits projects have been registered with PyPi (aka The Cheeseshop)
and each project’s listing on PyPi currently includes a source
tarball. In the near future, we will also upload binary eggs for
Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Installation of Traits 3.0 is now as
simple [...]
GnuCash 2.2.6 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.6 aka
“Stay@Home v3″, the sixth bug fix release in a series of stable releases
of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.
Getting GnuCash
For no good reason other than curiosity (and a bloated XP install that gets slower by the hour) the inner geek in me has been looking for a competent Linux distribution to try. I’ve experimented with a few in the past but none have ever gotten me to stick with it for even 10% [...]
In his quest to find the simplest Linux distribution, Jack Wallen makes a stop at PCLinuxOS and may have found the holy grail of simple operating systems. Read Jack’s take on PCLinuxOS and decide for yourself if PCLinuxOS is your “go-to” Linux distribution.
The slogan for PCLinuxOS is “Radically Simple” and, as far as I can [...]
As we approach next week’s LinuxWorld Expo, The VAR Guy was reminded of an age-old problem. During a meeting earlier this week in New Orleans, a solution provider told The VAR Guy he just didn’t understand how to profit from open source. Didn’t we put this issue to rest a long time ago? Perhaps not. [...]
This time around we’ll learn about subnets and CIDR, hopefully in a more manageable manner than some books present it.
Let’s get one thing straight: there is no “Class” in subnetting. In the olden days, there were Class A, B and C networks. These could only be divided up into equal parts, so VLSM, or Variable [...]
KDE 4.1 is finally out today, as you probably already know, and it comes with a lot of innovations for the Linux desktop. KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment, which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy-to-use desktop, for both personal and enterprise computing. The new [...]
A little while back, we covered the release of WordPress 2.6 here on Open Ended. Since then, we’ve seen an incredible welcome for the newest version of the #1 blogging and content managment system on the internet. Matt Mullenweg, the creator of the open source system, has published a blog post with some astonishing statistics. [...]
Hackers are now actively exploiting a critical flaw in the Domain Name System, but they’re not using any of the already known exploits, said a researcher who crafted the first attack code to go public.
“We’re seeing an entirely new technique,” said HD Moore, the creator of the Metasploit penetration testing framework, who with a hacker [...]
Earlier this month we had provided a first-look at OpenSolaris 2008.11 by using an early version that was based upon the Solaris Express Community b93 code-base. Aside from the updated packages, there wasn’t much to differentiate 2008.11 from the inaugural OpenSolaris 2008.05 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12269) release…
Read more at Phoronix
The former Delta Airlines chief operating officer, who took the reins of the most established open-source software company from Matthew Szulik in January, names cloud computing as a top priority. Loosely speaking, the term refers to computing services available to anyone online rather than custom data centers isolated within corporate confines, but it also dovetails [...]