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A few minutes ago I received an email from LinuxFoundation.org stating that “On September 8, 2011, we discovered a security breach that may have compromised your username, password, email address and other information you have given to us.” How this happened is not yet fully explained by Linux Foundation but it seems that there is some connection [...]
A quick note: we are not able to ping kernel.org. or any of the sub-domains. We are not sure if it was planned or it is another attack just like before. Kernel.org did mentioned that they’ll be re-installing OS on all of their boxes but we never thought that they’ll pull out the entire infra. Please [...]
A few days ago this appeared on Kernel.org’s home page. “Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure.”
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved forcopyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open Source Definition. Some open source software is available within the public domain. This is how Wikipedia defines Open Source Software.Well [...]
YALI, the installer of Pardus, now has LVM/RAID and UUID support and the UI is completely redesigned to improve the usability.It gives an option to select between Open Source and proprietary drivers for their NVIDIA video adapters. Clementine, a cross-platform music player based on Amarok 1.4 is set as the default audio playing application as it is well maintained and lightweight.
French hacker Fabrice Bellard has come up with a JavaScript pc Emulator that can run the 2.6.20 Linux kernel inside Mozilla’s Firefox 4 and Google chrome 11,these two provide significantly high JavaScript speeds as compared to others.He also adds that the emulator could also be used as a benchmark for Web Browsers. Bellard is known for creating the FFmpeg open source [...]
VIM is a very powerful editor and has been well said about that it is far too big to learn quickly and probably too big to learn slowly. Learning and getting used to the vim editor does increase the work speed and productivity. Today, rathar than getting into a particular vim function i would touch [...]
We have written a lot about smart phones in the past. I personally have used several myself but never, in my life, I imagined that this could be done with a phone! Behold while we present to you Mozilla Labs‘ Seabird – A Community-driven Mobile Phone Concept. Seabird comes loaded with 8 MP camera with [...]
Jolicloud 1.0 is a very new linux based operating system that is centered about social networking and trouble free work. You no longer have to worry about downloading updates and installing them. The OS does it all on its own. It has a customizable launcher entirely built in HTML 5 and uninstalling any application requires just [...]
Version control is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other files. It allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people think of version control as a sort of “time machine.” Its most common use is to track changes [...]
